{"id":183077,"date":"2019-10-31T19:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T02:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=183077"},"modified":"2019-10-31T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T03:03:10","slug":"how-to-conquer-existential-dread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/31\/how-to-conquer-existential-dread\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Conquer Existential Dread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re retired, financially independent, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153location independent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153digital nomad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and have achieved all the external measures of success, how do you prevent or conquer existential dread? (Danger of nihilism \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no \u00e2\u20ac\u0153purpose\u00e2\u20ac\u009dto life)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My simple suggestion and solution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Become part beast (powerlifter), part philosopher, and part artist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What works for me:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Strive to increase your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153one rep max\u00e2\u20ac\u009din deadlifts and squats indefinitely. Constantly seek more physical strength. <\/li><li>Continue plumbing the depths of philosophy, poetry, and art. My heroes and inspirations include Kanye West, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Epicurus, Nietzsche, Goethe, Horace.<\/li><li>Never stop making art! Pursue entrepreneurship and take risks. <\/li><li>Never stop traveling, exploring and visiting new places, trying new foods, discovering new cultures, learning new languages, learning new dances, and listening to new music.<\/li><li>Share your own personal revelations and lessons in life on your own blog or YouTube Channel.<\/li><li>Get married, have kids. Genetic lineage. Know your life is short and small in the grand scheme of things. The goal is to instruct future generations!<\/li><li>Study the lives and actions of the great individuals and heros of the past, and strive to become great yourself!<\/li><li>Never stop reading philosophy and studying great art. Also, never stop writing and creating your own art.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re retired, financially independent, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153location independent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153digital nomad\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and have achieved all the external measures of success, how do you prevent or conquer existential dread? (Danger of nihilism \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/89624E9B-E78C-4657-9D96-A2879FE9AF10.jpeg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183077","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=183077"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183103,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183077\/revisions\/183103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}