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Photo essay / Dec 6, 2022

A Critique of the iPhone

The other day I went to an Apple store, and I am so insanely disappointed. Why? All of the new products are lame, boring, and uninteresting. All of the colorways are lame, they are …

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Photo essay / Dec 6, 2022

How to Build Your Power

I had a funny thought that instead of thinking of myself as a bodybuilder, or a powerlifter, better for me to think of myself as a “powerbuilder“, that is, my joy and aim is …

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Photo essay / Dec 6, 2022

Ugly aesthetics are physiologically depressing

If you have beautiful aesthetics, does it physiologically uplift and empower you? Not 100% sure, but I could say that ugly aesthetics are positively negatively physiologically depressing. Ugly aesthetics can take away your physiological …

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

Acts of Omission

Most of our regrets in life our acts of omission, that is, regrets of things we didn’t attempt or didn’t try to do. Jeff Bezos

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

New Challenges

Is my personal thought that physical challenge is the best and greatest challenge. Yet beyond that, once you’ve already maxed that out, then what? Then my personal thought is just use that superfluous time …

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

Why is Brazil so good at soccer?

Currently watching the Brazil versus Korea soccer/football game, and I thought that comes to my mind; why is it that Brazil is so good at soccer? The first thought, ethnic diversity. It is much …

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

How to Think

Why think? Teng— to think, to feel, to perceive, to know. What differentiates man from beast? Our ability to think, forecast, predict, our brains, etc. What is a philosopher? A philosopher is simply a …

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

HOW TO INCREASE YOUR VIGOR

Vigeo— thrive, flourish. Weg— to be lively, strong. What is the source of our vigor, or where is the source of our vigor? If you are a man, maybe it is in your testes, …

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

ERIC KIM NEW VLOGS

New vlogs, new life! And funny enough, I think I really like auto playing videos, but on mute. Even consider when you go to the gym or the local sports bar, all of the …

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

A kid weightlifting gym?

A thought on my mind; trying to figure out virtuous ways to spend and kill time with Seneca, typically we just go to the local outdoor mall, the Irvine spectrum, and just walk around. …

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Photo essay / Dec 5, 2022

Future Clothing?

In terms of the future and technology, we always think about devices like our phones our laptops or tablets our cars etc. But what would future clothes look like, and what should future clothes …

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Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

HOW TO BECOME A STOIC

How does one become a stoic and why become a stoic? The first thought is try to position yourself in such a way that you interpret everything as having a hidden benefit for yourself. …

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Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

Does the upper body really matter?

Maybe not? What’s worse … not having legs or arms? Legs are better than arms. Not having legs sucks. Not having arms — you can make do!

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Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

Things that I love

My vibram five finger shoes, the EL- X model, my iPad Pro M series, my iPhone SE, my Lululemon license to train shorts, my outlier.NYC black merino wool T-shirt. My ex officio boxer briefs …

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Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

The power is in our legs?

A random thought; perhaps the root of all of our ambition and power is in our legs. That is, if you could squat over 700 pounds, certainly wouldn’t it give you more elevated and …

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Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

Color combinations are critical

For example, I really love my high viz. orange tank top and I really love my new faded zap hyper fluorescent yellow neon colored Lululemon license to train shorts, but separately. For example I …

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Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

Mimetic Theory

Some thing on my mind is towards mimetic theory; why is it that we humans only seek to desire the things which we see other humans desire?

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Eric Kim happiness abstract
Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

The Philosophy of Happiness

What does it mean to be happy, and how to become happy? First of all, what is happiness? Personally speaking, I think happiness is a situation in which you have great physical and physiological …

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Photo essay / Dec 4, 2022

No Glass Ceiling

This means, do not constrain yourself to one category, one style of lifting, or even dumbbells or weights at the gym which have an upper limit.

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