{"id":137122,"date":"2019-04-02T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=137122"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:26:00","slug":"turbo-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/02\/turbo-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Turbo Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My thoughts of today (reading \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Genealogy of Morals\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Nietzsche) at the Potrero Hill Library in SF: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The point of life isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to minimize pain. Why anesthesia yourself? What if pain was a necessary accompaniment to achieve epic greatness? <\/li><li>How to fight <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/19\/how-to-conquer-depression-with-photography-2\/\">depression<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d prioritize yourself and your own needs\/self-focus to the greatest extent. To reformat your mind (philosophy). Live in Vietnam, or any place with a very low cost of living? Take a year off from toilsome labor, to focus on your own creative work?<\/li><li>Why allow yourself to suffer from yourself? Why suffer? Do you have the power to inflict suffering upon yourself? If so, do you willingfully inflict suffering upon yourself?<\/li><li>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seek pain, nor shirk away from it. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t flinch.<\/li><li>Why fear becoming conscious? Do you not like being around your own thoughts? Why drown out your thoughts with drugs or alcohol? Why not enhance your thoughts and make them <i>more<\/i> powerful instead?<\/li><li>Have confidence in the future. <a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/27\/hope-is-dope-how-to-stay-optimistic-life-stoicism\/\">Hope is dope.<\/a> <\/li><li>What do you consider lacking in your life, and how can you close that gap?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thoughts of today (reading \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Genealogy of Morals\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Nietzsche) at the Potrero Hill Library in SF: The point of life isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t to minimize pain. Why anesthesia yourself? What if pain was a necessary accompaniment to achieve epic greatness? How to fight depression \u00e2\u20ac\u201d prioritize yourself and your own needs\/self-focus to the greatest extent. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/A5645B5D-978D-4252-9E4C-05571399460D.jpeg?fit=2810%2C1820&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137124,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137122\/revisions\/137124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}