ERIC KIM ₿

Both are great

Then, the ideal is not a certain state, but ever greater

Differo— dis + fero. Apart, carry, bear.

Become more “apart”. To carry other things?

Philosophically, become more foreign, strange and different from others. More apart.

For example, in the realm of cars, all of the differences are very superficial. The only real way to be different with cars, is just not owning a car.

Also with clothes, all clothes are far more similar than dissimilar. The only real way to make a huge difference in the realm of clothing is just opting not to wear clothing, for example, not wearing a shirt in public.

Also with technology, how different is it really?

Then my suggestion is this: strive to make really critical and core differences and changes, rather than the superficial.

Communis— munus. To change, to swap. To exchange.

A place of commerce, like the marketplace, or even the mall is a place of “community”, as there is an exchange of goods and money.

To change, to swap.

This is why I do not like going to the park, it is boring, because it is not natural. A park is a planned, top down concept, which lacks a real soul or meaning.

This is where money is good, as it is a real social tool of exchange. Money allows us to more easily swap, and exchange things.

The calm before the storm

The more you walk, the more you will shoot.

Even if you were a quadrillionaire, the best life would probably revolve around being able to be outdoors as much as humanly possible, and walk as much as humanly possible

Mentors?

You cannot use more than one device at Once.

Also, you cannot drive more than one car at once.

How to shoot the suburbs

Why I have zero doubts in my parenting

Sublime Bliss

The look on Seneca‘s face when he is playing something so so fun.

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How does composition matter or not matter?

Good enough composition

The funny thing is in bodybuilding, currently the ethos is high repetitions until failure, to encourage muscle hypertrophy. However, it is boring and hateful.

Instead, lately I’ve just been doing more very very heavy one rep max attempts for squat and rack pulls, and my back and my biceps are getting insane. Also my traps are out of control.

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The word fail just means to fall.

The problem in American society, and a lot of the world, people are so scared of failure. But what is failure anyways? Failure is when you’re texting while walking, and you trip on some thing, and you fall in your face.

If you attempt something great, and you did not meet your expectation, that is not failure. It is something else. Perhaps it is just feedback?

For example, if I attempt to lift a very very heavy weight, and I am not successful in budging it, is that a “fail”? No. It is simply feedback that I am not strong enough for it, yet.

Another reason why not to wear headphones at the gym, I love these fools dropping dumbbells, can easily crush your toe.

Lift like a powerlifter, look like a body builder.

For example, how quotable Jay Z rap lyrics are, how quotable Kanye West is in political matters, or how quotable Donald Trump is.

Also, Friedrich Nietzsche as one of the most quoted modern philosophers in the last 300 years.

Some thing which is lacking in today’s world is critical thinking. But the question is, how does one think more critically?

Empirical

Put more faith in which you have experienced in real life in the flesh, rather than hearsay.

Also, become insanely skeptical of everyone and everything.

Furthermore, no faith in the media or the Internet. Only faith you could put on is your own self and experiences.

For example, with muscle and fitness, it is impossible to put faith in any other human being but yourself. Why is that? It looks like everyone out there is either trying to make a buck, or trying to gain some sort of influence or fame. This leads to people either exaggerating the truth, or, hiding something critical.

For example, the disingenuity of someone like Chris Hemsworth; he gets super duper swole for his role in Thor, which he was probably doing steroids or some other human growth hormone, and then a few years later he advertises some sort of fitness app, giving people the wrong idea that just by doing bodyweight stuff, and light weights, you could look like him in Thor.

What to avoid

I say, if you want to become the uber critical thinker, things to cut out include social media, the news, Twitter, magazines, podcasts, or anything that has advertising in it.

Also even nowadays, a lot of published hardcover business books are just advertisements for the fame of the author.

Better to trust dead people than people who are still alive

With thinking, more faith in dead people than people who are still alive. Why is that? The truth of people have not yet been fully revealed while they are still alive, while the truth of people who are dead is typically more accurate. For example, learning more about the skeletons of Steve Jobs after he died, via Walter Isaacson.

And this is the tricky thing, any modern day living biography on Elon Musk will not be useful, as he will not know until after he dies, did he make it to Mars or not?

Who should I put faith in?

Funny enough, more faith in people who are considered “assholes” or “arrogant” than the nice guys. For example, I have zero faith and credence in Dwayne The Rock Johnson, because he juices out his eyeballs, yet he advertises the virtues of “hard work.” He should just be honest and tell everyone that he does steroids or other testosterone injections or whatever, if he really wanted to be authentic.

Also, my deep distrust of Ellen DeGeneres, who preaches the gospel of “be kind“, yet probably treats her staff as subhuman. A tip that I got from Nassim Taleb is this; when you meet seemingly “altruistic“ people who does all this philanthropy, see how they treat waiters and waitresses at gala events.

Also, do not trust Bill Gates. How he cheated on his wife.

In fact, do not trust anybody who cheats on their wife.

Also, the disingenuity of Beyoncé, after her knowing and making public that Jay Z blatantly cheated on her, she still “forgave” him, and got back to gather with him. Beyoncé would have just been much more honest if she just divorced him. Perhaps this is where Kim Kardashian is actually more honest than Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian actually having the guts to split ties with Kanye.

In other words, put zero trust in Beyoncé whenever she talks anything about female empowerment, or feminism. It seems that all she cares about is being famous and being rich.

How to not be suckered by conspiracy theories

What is a conspiracy? It literally means people who share the same air. That you have a bunch of dudes in a single room, breathing the same air, and seemingly plot some sort of sinister thing. However, the reason why conspiracy theories probably do not exist is because even if you get a room full of intelligent people in the room, and intentionally try to plot something evil, nobody is actually responsible enough to get the evil thing done.

For example, let us consider a bunch of academics who come to a round table, and try to plan on co-writing a book. They might plan to take them five years, but in fact, it might take them 20 or 30 years, or, it actually never gets done.

Also, I think the human biases that we put too much faith in other human beings. Most people are quite inept, even the intelligent ones. Just look at Bill Gates and his beer gut, he apparently is one of the worlds worlds richest men, yet also one of the most obese? He could afford to hire the worlds best physical trainer, yet, he looks like he lacks any muscle mass, and is over fat. Put no faith in “plant-based diets”.

Trust non-experts

The funny thing, is with me, I am famous for photography, not for health or fitness or any of that other stuff. Therefore, ironically enough, perhaps you should actually put more faith in me than a famous fitness star or YouTuber. Why? I literally have nothing to gain from my thoughts on diet health and fitness. It is simply my side hobby, something I’m interested in superficially for fun.

Or my thoughts on powerlifting and hypelifting. Also, because I put no advertisements on YouTube, and I also do not make money on YouTube, you should put more faith in my videos than other people who put advertisements in their videos.

Follow the money

Money talks and walks. Ultimately, in today’s capitalist world, in which we are all a part of, even the hippies, money drives all of us. Some of us are more driven by money than others, but all of us are honestly tied to money.

A simple thought is this; if somebody has a certain opinion or thought, yet, might have potential financial gains from it, should you trust his or her opinion? No. Why? Whether the individual likes it or not, he or she will bias his or her opinion for the thing, given that he or she can make a direct or indirect financial gain from it.

Also funny enough, you should actually put less faith on people who are either married, in a relationship, or has a family. Why? Anybody will do unsavory things to “support their family,” just like the CEO of Coca-Cola and also the CEO of Phillip Morris. Ethics are important; by promoting a product that either directly or indirectly causes heart disease cancer, and obesity, how can you trust them?

Follow the links

This is also why you should also never trust websites with advertising, or affiliate links.

For example, if I link to a product on Amazon, and by clicking it, and you purchase it, you give me a 3% financial gain from it, is it really in my best interest to tell you the full truth of it? Will I really tell you the full gamut of pros and cons? Probably not.

Therefore, a simple thing to do is whenever you see a hyperlink, copy it, and inspect the URL. Does it have any funny code that links to some sort of affiliate program? Don’t trust it.

Don’t trust anybody on social media

Only put faith on people who own their own website/blog. This affords people greater freedom of expression, because what happens with social media is that the algorithm programs you to write uninteresting things, in order to maximize your likes, shares, and follows. The best way you could become a more critical thinker is uninstall YouTube, uninstall your podcast app, uninstall Twitter, uninstall Facebook, and also uninstall Instagram.

Better to just read books. For example, read Zero to One by Peter Thiel, and also read invent and wander by Jeff Bezos.

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What is the point of critical thinking?

I think the point is not to be suckered, and not to be a fool. Everyone wants to live a better life, yet, we get suckered in vacuous directions. If you want to make more progress in life, and advance your own personal aims, you must become more critical, judge mental, intelligent and wise.

What is the purpose of wisdom? To advance yourself.

It is probably more random than you think it is.

Better instead to think of your photos as a stream or a continuum:

For example the rapper Future — he should definitely have his own website!

Consider the stubbornness of kids — perhaps this should be more encouraged?

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Honestly, the biggest problem about living in a place is issues with maintenance; stuff breaking, toilet breaking, getting clogged, hot water boiler needing fixing, etc.

Paying rent is intelligent because you can outsource the stress of maintenance to someone else!

Even I am shocked:

Perhaps more bodybuilders should shoot pictures of their muscles with the Ricoh GR IIIX.

Become stronger than the rest:

Newest to oldest.

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If you really want to flex, get a Rolls-Royce instead.

I am a visual thinker — when I need to think, and I diagram it visually, I can think better.

We all know that Apple, Apple devices are the best. Yet when it comes to competitors like Samsung, how can Samsung become cool and sexy?

My first thought is this; optimize and prioritize Samsung galaxy phones to be optimized for vlogging. This is a good strategy, as the native YouTube app works much better on android, when compared to Apple. There should be some sort of marketing focus that you could directly upload videos to YouTube directly from your phone, with the native YouTube android app.

Also, the colors need to be more unique. Also, Samsung should better focus that they are actually a Korean company, as Korean is cool and sexy now. For example, using Korean colors like Joseon Dynasty green, or KIMSEJEONG red.

Bixby?

It is not too late. Samsung must change the name of their digital assistant. Ain’t nobody could pronounce the word “Bixby”. Maybe call her “Sammie” (sounds like Samsung, and Samantha.) Or just “Sam”.

Simplify the lineup?

Nobody cares for the Samsung tablets. Just axe the line. Just double down on focus on smart phones.

Photos that I have shot of Seneca, which tend to be very very dark, tend to be more interesting, there is more mystery in the photos.

Another reason to embrace extra small JPEG — Wi-Fi, Internet and everything in America is way slower than you might think.

I beautiful eyes; perhaps one of the most important things in your mate?

Why? When you have kids, you’re going to be looking at their eyes a lot. And Seneca, I find one of his most beautiful attribute to be his eyes.

Seneca loves to poke stuff with sticks!

BEYOND the frame.

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Since Vietnam in 2017, the peak of my powers, have I gotten harder, or softer? I think I have gone softer. 2022 and beyond, time to go four-fold harder.

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If you’re too rich, it causes undue stress.

How rich is rich enough? I say at least 1 (or two) Lamborghinis in the bank (either $250,000 or $500,000) saved in your bank account — liquid cash.

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First of all, speak your mind. No political correctness and no notions of what is proper.

Second, get into hypelifting. The louder you get the more interesting you are.

Third, ironically enough you become more interesting based on what you do not have. For example, the most interesting person doesn’t own a phone, doesn’t own a car, and is also not on social media. Also doesn’t check their email.

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Go to a gym of some kind every day, ‘island hopping’, and also, eat more meat!

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Better to live with others.

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Living with others is more ‘drama’, but superior!

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