To become the apex version of ourselves, we should strive to maximally build both our body AND mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Building your body via walking much, thinking much, and lifting weights. Powerlifting with deadlift, squat, bench, or bodyweight exercises (dive bombers, chinups, one legged pistol squat, planche).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Building your mind through reading philosophy, challenging certain ideas and conventions, and writing. Also to stream your thoughts via recording yourself “vlog” style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Resistance training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
You need resistance for your body AND mind if you desire to become stronger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to add resistance to body building? Simple: increase the weight! Strive to increase your “one rep max” at least once a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With your mind: strive to read more challenging and difficult things. Generally when you get bored with reading it is because the ideas aren’t challenging or interesting enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I like reading things which are contrary to what I already believe in. For example as a liberal, it’s more interesting to read conservative perspectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even with my idols (Steve Jobs, Kanye West); they’re actually quite different from me. They’re more like “assholes”, whereas I tend to be too nice and a “people pleaser”. But seeing their aberrant ways of thinking, living, and acting, I get more inspiration for myself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I believe the principle of life is to never stop striving to become stronger. It is what makes life fun, exciting, and enjoyable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My ideal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n A hybrid between a powerlifting gym and library– to augment and maximize both my body and mind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Never stop challenging yourself! A thought: To become the apex version of ourselves, we should strive to maximally build both our body AND mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203853","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\/12\/0FE6FC3E-8C28-4B80-875E-E25039773E7C-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203853","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=203853"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203862,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203853\/revisions\/203862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ERIC-KIM-PORTRAIT-SELFIE10-flex-muscle-scaled.jpg?resize=1180%2C1781&ssl=1\")
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