{"id":145017,"date":"2019-05-28T17:17:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T00:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=145017"},"modified":"2019-05-28T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T01:40:11","slug":"surpass-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/surpass-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Surpass Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just watched GATTACA for the first time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and it has a lot of interesting philosophical ideas about genetics, biological potential, and SURPASSING your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153potential\u00e2\u20ac\u009d(ingenuity, hustle, effort, luck). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Epigenetics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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There is a new field called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153epigenetics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d which is interesting to me because it suggests that we have control over our genetics \u00e2\u20ac\u201d meaning, our lifestyle, climate, food, exercise, intermittent fasting choices will effect how our genes will be expressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which is super empowering \u00e2\u20ac\u201d because it means that you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not a slave to your genetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The importance of epic dreams and goals <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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One of my favorite parts about the GATTACA film was this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can have the most superior genetics, but without having an epic dream, and without effort \u00e2\u20ac\u201d you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t gonna do anything epic. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Truth be told \u00e2\u20ac\u201d of course genetics has some<\/em> influence and effect on our potential. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still of the school that our genes don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pre-determine<\/em> our future, or potential for success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m the ultimate optimist\u00e2\u20ac\u201d you can bend your genes and potential however you see fit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muscular potential <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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There are obliviously muscular as well as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153morphological\u00e2\u20ac\u009ddifferences between us human beings. There are people who are genetically taller, people who might have a superior genetic predisposition to physical and muscular strength and speed, etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But once again \u00e2\u20ac\u201d this ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a pre-determinant of anything. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example myself as a Korean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ectomorph\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d I probably will never become as buff as Ronnie Coleman. Yet, that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t my goal. My goal is for me to surpass myself \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and for me to compete against my past self; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not competing against anyone else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potential<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We often use this physics \u00e2\u20ac\u0153potential\u00e2\u20ac\u009d notion to apply to us human beings. I think it is a pretty good mental framework \u00e2\u20ac\u201d but when we talk about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153human potential\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d what do we really mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just watched GATTACA for the first time \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and it has a lot of interesting philosophical ideas about genetics, biological potential, and SURPASSING your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153potential\u00e2\u20ac\u009d(ingenuity, hustle, effort, luck).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145030,"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-145017","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\/05\/292BB826-6ED6-43DD-BF56-9B2C08331D67.jpeg?fit=2880%2C1800&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145017","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=145017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145066,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145017\/revisions\/145066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}