ERIC KIM ₿

It seems the biggest problem of everyday life, especially if you’re stuck in the office all day, it’s just the boredom, fatigue, and the overall malaise you feel.

Walking by a Costco, and seeing all the suckers waiting for a Costco gasoline.

If your life afford you enough free time and energy that you could review, and share and publish your photos on a daily basis, consider yourself blessed.

For example, Seneca’s favorite thing in the world is getting rocks and throwing them into bodies of water. I don’t need to force him to do this. He does this out of his own volition and is insanely motivated.

Therefore in life, perhaps we should be better motivated by fun, adventure, and out of our own personal fun.

Once again, I don’t need to motivate Seneca with money, or notions of “productivity“, or “working out” and health.

I do not buy Seneca toys, and I also don’t like him playing with toys. Why? It stunts your growth and development.

Similarly speaking for adults, toys are bad. And don’t think about “tools“, think weapons. For example, can you imagine the ancient Spartans playing with toys? No, all they needed was their spear, shield, sword, and armor.

Perhaps it is superior to choose the impractical option, rather than the practical one.

Buy things used, not new. Just buy it on craigslist. The upside is that you don’t have to deal with all the packaging material.

Resist buying stuff on Amazon, as it is a pain in the ass to get rid of all those cardboard boxes or plastic covers.

For coffee, just drink espresso at the local coffee shop. Just drink it in a “for here” cup, drink your shot, and then get on with your day. Don’t deal with the stupid plastic or paper cups.

For example, I saw a local MMA studio converted into a Brazilian jujitsu studio and has done much better.

Also, always acting instinctually based on any given circumstance or situation.

ETHICS by KIM

Your Own Personal Code of Ethics

1. WHY ETIQUETTE?
2. NO BLAME, JUST CAUSE AND EFFECT.
3. Ignorance Takes Courage
4. TREAT OTHERS CARTE BLANCHE
5. Don’t give people what they want or what you *think* they want, give them what you think they *should* have.
6. Anti Small
7. Disdain or Admiration?
8. Beware Those With Good Intentions
9. STUBBORN x FLEXIBLE
10. ETHICS ARE VIA NEGATIVA
11. OBEDIENCE & DISCIPLINE
12. The Motive of Criticism
13. Ethics are Social
14. Anti Role Models
15. What is Greed?
16. On Having the Courage to Make Your Own Decisions
17. How *NOT* to Get Duped or Suckered
18. Why Help Others?
19. The Duty of the Strong
20. Why I’m So Intolerant Towards Intolerance
21. The Ethics of Criticizing Others
22. Consult Your Own Conscience
23. The Ethics of Shit Talking
24. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
25. I’m Easily Distracted
26. On Forming Your Own Opinion
27. ERIC KIM Philosophy of Tolerance
28. Tolerance
29. Aesthetics are Ethics
30. Morality and Ethics

In terms of design and products, the flatter the better. The flattest phone, laptop, shoes (VIBRAM 5 fingers).

In terms of the modern day society, why is everything so flat? In terms of landscape, homes, living, etc.

Also philosophically, currently it looks like the trend is to make society flat, all individuals as equal. This is bad. There needs to be some sort of leveling.

If society were perfectly flat and equal, there would be no notion of leveling up.

SOCIOLOGY by KIM

1. National vs Individual Pride
   Dystopia is a Utopia
2. A NEW SOCIETY.
3. THE DEEP INDIVIDUAL.
4. Why is It So Hard for Us To Follow Our Gut and Instinct?
5. Sociology of Comparison
6. Mimetic Desires
7. Interest in Humans or Objects?
8. Social Stochastic Resonance
9. How to Live Bravely in Today’s Brave New World and Society
10. Arousal
11. Is Humanity on the Decline?
12. Social Innovations
13. Society *Shouldn’t* Be Fair
14. Why Society Doesn’t Want Free Thinkers and Free Livers
15. Our New Soft Society
16. HARD SOCIETY

Sociological Theory

• TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE
• POST-MONETARY SOCIETY.
• Simulated Universal Basic Income
• DIGITAL CAPITALISM
• Capitalism 2.0
• SOCIETY 2.0

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Photography and Sociology

• Street Photography Sociology
• Visual Sociology through Street Photography
• How You Can Apply Sociology to Your Street Photography Projects
• 10 Things Sociology Has Taught Me About Street Photography

Kids are the ultimate discoverers:

For example, Seneca loves and prefers rocks, but now that we are back in Southern California, he will settle and adapt to wood chips instead.

Specifically, your first and last name.

Go to fogo de chao, and order 4 beef ribs! The ultimate food hack:

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America is insanely wasteful:

HOW I HYPE MYSELF UP PODCAST

LET’S DO IT.

Make your own lifts and your own beats.

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Short Squats // Lifts by KIM

VIDEO: How I hype Myself Up

PODCAST [Full Gym Session Video Podcast]

Full gym session:

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Get insanely loud:

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ERIC KIM HEAVY SQUAT GYM SESSION 5 PLATES (495 POUNDS)

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I love the hype!

Not how much you can lift, but how much courage you are willing to exhibit, and how loud you are willing to get:

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The art of the hype:

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ERIC KIM 5 PLATE SQUAT 495 POUNDS HYPELIFTING

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Let’s get loud

First of all, give yourself permission to get loud as fuck. For example, my ‘4 plate‘ squat in Phnom Penh Cambodia. 4 plates (each plate is 25 kilograms, which is 55 pounds each). Do the math, 100+100+20 (20kg for the bar), the total weight is 220kilograms, or 485 pounds:

The fun thing then is not the weight itself, but the hype that gets you there.

Hype squat heavy

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HYPE DEADLIFT

551 POUND DEADLIFT:

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In praise of doing micro squats:

Currently back in Southern California, and a thought I realized about life here, the most virtuous way to live is suburban island hopping.

What does that mean? Don’t stay at home. Instead drive your kid to the closest park, play around, and when you’re bored, just drive to the next park, and then drive home.

Also, drive to the gym, walk around, get a quick pump, then go home.

Ever since coming back home, Cindy has been going to yoga at core power, and every core power is located inside a mall about a 20 to 30 minute drive away. Just lean into this.

Not caring, not worrying about it.

I would rather have the things simple to a fault, than have unnecessary elements.

In photography, detail is overrated. No need to zoom in or crop in your photos. Instead, just shoot extra small JPEG, with a resolution of 2000 pixels on the wide end.

Also, now that I got a kid and literally every second is precious, I don’t have time to sit around and wait for my photos to import. Extra small JPEG is literally an insanely fast option

That is why my when my one year nine month old son Seneca likes to play with skateboards, and skateboard wheels.

Perhaps because it is never cold, and you could always be outdoors, in theory that should be better for productivity.

Designwise, I believe the older Tesla model S and Tesla model three, silver on silver doorhandles was best.

If you are a creative person, and want to come up with more creative thoughts, spend as much time outdoors as humanly possible. In the direct sun, maximum UV radiation.

For example, if it is cold outside, spend a bunch of money on your jacket. Better to spend $2000 on a goose jacket, rather than spending that on the new camera lens

First of all, it seems wise to only buy a few really really expensive and really really high-quality products, so you’re more likely to keep onto it for much longer. For example, I spent about 100 bucks on these Lululemon license to train shorts, and they still keep serving me well.

Second, think Marino wool. I really like it because it is literally one of the best fabrics known to man. Also, the funny upside is because it wears easily, it becomes more Wabisabi overtime. For example, one of my OG outlier.nyc black shirts that my friend gave me about five years ago has a bunch of holes on it, my back looks like Spider-Man. Yet to me this is a new unique fashion item. I think Balenciaga is trying to copy me.

After being in South Korea for about a month, and then going back to America, it is true, there is so much waste being produced in America.

For example, I just stopped by a Peet’s coffee and got a large cold brew. It came in this big plastic container, with a straw, and also some paper wrapping for the straw.

First of all, had to throw away the plastic surrounding the straw. Then after that, I had to babysit this massive cup. Then after finishing it, I had to throw away the cup, which included the plastic cup, the plastic lid, and the plastic straw. So much waste.

One of the good things that Starbucks innovated with is figuring out how to make a lid that didn’t need a straw. This is great because you reduce the waste of the straw, and the paper product surrounding the straw.

I got so strong because I have insane audacity and insanely high self-esteem.

ERIC KIM 255 KG (562 pound) Deadlift attempt

MY THIGHS CAN MOVE THE WORLD!

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551 pound (250 kilogram) deadlift.

From a prior lower PR — what I learned.

All for the sake of a single great moment video

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MUSCLE BY KIM:

1. ERIC KIM 4 PLATE SQUAT
2. MUSCLES ARE THE ULTIMATE WEALTH
3. ERIC KIM GYM GOPRO POV
4. *BEYOND* MAINTENANCE.
5. HOW TO GET BIGGER ARMS
6. THE BEAST KETTLEBELL WORKOUT (48 KG, 105 POUNDS)
7. NOT WHO IS RICHER OR MORE SUCCESSFUL, BUT WHO CAN DEADLIFT MORE?
8. KETTLEBELL HOME WORKOUT (48 KILOGRAM, 105 POUND): 1 HANDED CLEAN AND SQUAT
9. The Philosophy of Fitness
10. Menacing Body
11. Hyper Nourishment
12. One Man, One Kettlebell
13. STRENGTH OVER SIZE
    Minimum Viable Workout (MVM)
14. Movement is Art: ERIC KIM WARMUP
15. ENJOY THE MOVEMENT.
16. Strengthening or Weakening?
17. Muscular Motivation
18. Limit Your Reps, Maximize Your Power Output
19. Love of the Body
20. The mind is overrated; the body is king.
21. BENCH PRESS GYM
22. How to Squat
23. SUMO DEADLIFT GYM
24. ADRENALINE.

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Why build your body?

Your own body as a work of art!

In Praise of Building Your Body

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My Muscle Philosophy:

Treat your body as sculpture.

This is not my body

The first thing:

I don’t see my body as belonging to me. I look at my body like it belongs to someone else.

When I look at the Lamborghini of someone else, I admire it. When I see the muscles and physiques of anyone else, I admire it. Then I had the epiphany:

Why not transform my own body into a Lambo, and admire my own body instead?

The logic

The great logic:

1. It is far cheaper to get buff than to buy a Lambo.
2. The human body is the apex beauty. This means your personal goal in life should be to beautify your own personal body to the maximum (without plastic surgery, steroids, etc).
3. Ultimate democratic approach: Genetics doesn’t matter. Sex doesn’t matter. Racial ethnicity doesn’t matter. Anyone can both add muscle mass and subtract fat.
4. It doesn’t cost much to get ripped. Just intermittent fast [no breakfast, no lunch], one big ass meal a day, and mostly a ‘ketogenic’ diet.
5. Your body is always with you. Why not beautify your body to inspire yourself?

The joy of sculpting your own body

To sculpt your own body is insanely fun. Why? You can see the change over time!

Once again, the goal is simple:

Never stop adding muscle mass, and never stop reducing body fat, or keeping it low (around 10%).

Muscle and your body is highly practical.

The more muscle you have, the more energy you got. The more power you got to make art-work, and live with gratitude, joy, and hyper-vigor.

Strengthen on, and flex on!

ERIC

MUSCLE 101

1. DUMBBELL SHOULDER OVERHEAD PRESS (1 ARM)
2. What is the Ideal Male Form?
3. How to Workout Quickly from Home
4. How to Augment Your Muscle Mass
5. Fat (Adipose Tissue) not ‘Health’
6. To Be Happier, Just Workout at the Park
7. ERIC KIM GOPRO POV WORKOUT VIDEO
8. Why Become More Muscular?
9. How to Get a 6 Pack
10. Greedy for the Gains
11. Simple Home Workout
12. LAMB
13. ERIC KIM FLEXES HIS MUSCLE
14. ERIC KIM WORKS OUT AT HOME GYM
15. More Muscle, More Productivity
16. How to Increase Your Muscle Mass
17. Extreme Vanity
18. There is No Proper Form
19. Why I Love Working Out
20. Better to Powerlift and Deadlift Heavy One Rep Max Attempts than
21. Drive Fast Cars and Motorcycles
22. Why I Love Working Out at the Park
23. RICOH WORKOUT
24. YOUR BODY *IS* YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
25. In Praise of Ghetto Workouts
26. Rock Workout
27. How to Workout
28. Dynamic Warmup
29. My Fitness Motivation Hacks
30. Why Make Workout Videos?
31. ERIC KIM FITNESS
32. How to Lift Weights
33. ERIC KIM WORKS OUT
34. ERIC KIM ROCK PARK WORKOUT
35. My Body is a Work of Art!
36. Park Workout Ideas
37. The Physiological Joy of Working Out
38. Anti Body Body Shaming
39. How to Workout at Home With Only a Barbell
40. 11 Tips How to Use Photography to Get More Fit
41. How to Lose Fat Fast
42. Become More Creative With Your (Limited) Home Gym Workouts
43. Flexibility is “Micro Strength”
44. NEVER STOP GAINING MUSCLE
45. ERIC KIM PARK LIFE
46. How I Workout at my Home Gym
47. In Praise of Pistol One Legged Squats
48. Powerlifting Style Workouts at the Park
49. The Philosophy of Bodybuilding
50. YOUR BODY IS YOUR BANK ACCOUNT
51. WHY I WORKOUT AT THE PARK
52. How to Strengthen Your Rotator Cuff
53. In Praise of Rings Workout
54. How to Workout at the Park
55. Why I Don’t Eat Breakfast or Lunch (In Praise of One Huge Dinner Meal a Day)
56. HOW TO LOVE YOUR BODY
57. Is Working Out at the Park Superior to Working Out at the Gym?
58. Why I Workout
59. WHY PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOULD WORKOUT
60. How to Increase Your Testosterone
61. My Workout Philosophy
62. How Appearance Matters
63. How I Workout at Home
64. My Philosophy of Food
65. The Best Park Workouts
66. How to Quit Sugar
67. How to Workout in the Streets and Park
68. How Much Meat Can You Eat in a Day?
69. APEX MALE MASCULINITY
70. HOW I WORKOUT AT THE PARK
71. How to Lose Fat
72. How I Became Stronger and Buffer and More Swole During and After Quarantine
73. What is Skinny-Fat?
74. In Praise of Working Out at the Park
75. Why Meat is Good
76. Flesh over Metal
77. Why Lower Your Bodyfat?
78. How to Augment Your Recovery
79. Increase Intensity, not Reps
80. My Park Workout
81. How to Fast
82. HOW I WORKOUT FROM THE PARK
83. How I Got So Swole
84. Pure Power or Sculpture?
85. How to Workout in the Streets
86. How to Workout At Home With No Equipment
87. Super Saiyan is the Goal
88. MY POWERLIFTING PHILOSOPHY
89. MY EXERCISE/WORKOUT PHILOSOPHY
90. What if Mood Originates in the Stomach and Gut? Digestion Health
91. Why I Don’t Consume Protein Powder or Supplements
92. Real vs Fake // Natural vs Unnatural
93. You Can’t Fake Strength
94. How to Grow Your Muscles
95. How to Add Muscle and Subtract Fat at the Same Time
96. ERIC KIM BODY MUSCLE FLEX
97. Don’t Build Muscle, Build Strength.
98. Visual Kinesthesia: Muscles and Art
99. How to Maximize Muscle Growth and Fat Loss

My friend and former student Martin Kaninsky (see his great interview with me here), just did this great interview with Martin Parr — check it out! See the podcast here.

My article on MARTIN PARR >

Don’t use Gmail. Instead, use your own custom email. It looks more professional, and higher.

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Why Verizon is on the way out — they are simply trying to copy T-Mobile. Instead, Verizon should better position themselves as a more exclusive premium and expensive brand.

For example, when it comes to the deadlift or squat, it is not about having “good” form or “proper” form. Instead, trying to figure out the technique which feels the most natural to you, which best leverages your own body proportions.

For example, somebody who is 7 feet tall will probably deadlift differently than somebody who is 4 feet tall. Or somebody with very long arms will probably deadlift differently than somebody with very short arms.

Why is it that experts try to get us all to do the thing the way they do it?

Experts think, “how dare you do that not the way I do it!”

Or in other words, “my form and technique and approach and philosophy of things is supreme, and if you do it any differently than I do, you are lower than me and dislegitimate”. and worthy of scorn.

Downtown LA is my favorite!

Micro squats.

What is technique? Simply the Art of doing things. Therefore, to “improve your technique“, doesn’t mean following some sort of standard guide, but instead, to keep practicing the thing itself.

For example, there is no such thing as “good form“, in the context of deadlift or squat, or any other power lifting. Everyone has a different body, different proportions, and that’s a different technique. Simply what you Gotta do is to iterate and figure out a best approach and technique for yourself.

For example, at the gym and hearing his old runaway song, and I am still blown away about how good it is. There is no other living man who innovated as much as Kanye did in terms of fashion, music production, rapping, aesthetics as he has done.

Moral of the story: then perhaps the goal is to strive to use that energy and motivation to motivate yourself to become even greater than him. Even more outspoken and reckless.

For example, the feeling that after a month of not lifting weights, and then finally going back to the gym, you are noticeably and surprisingly weaker.

I then suppose the upside should be this: use that disappointment to fuel yourself to become even stronger than before you took that short hiatus.