{"id":204213,"date":"2020-01-23T05:26:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=204213"},"modified":"2020-01-23T05:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:45:17","slug":"pain-and-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/pain-and-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain and Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We need both pain AND pleasure to accomplish grand things in life! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Childbirth <\/li><li>Weight lifting and muscle building: After taxing your muscles, you will feel \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good pain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d an indicator that your muscles are building and growing, on the road to become stronger! The pleasure of a good workout, or the pleasure of great attempts in <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/the-zen-of-powerlifting\/\">powerlifting<\/a>. <\/li><li>Love: We need both pain <em>and<\/em> pleasure with our soulmate to grow stronger.<\/li><li>Pain\u00e2\u20ac\u201d fright in street photography. Pleasure: the payoff associated with making great photos. <\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/21\/photography-entrepreneurship-philosophy-2\/\">Entrepreneurship<\/a>: Pain as fear, difficulty, and uncertainty. Pleasure as forward progress. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be afraid of pain, and don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t focus on pleasure <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"95852\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/vsco\/processed-with-vsco-with-a6-preset-393\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3-scaled.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G935T&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Processed with VSCO with a6 preset&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1510570353&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2018. All right reserved.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.1&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Processed with VSCO with a6 preset&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cindy lying side me in bed; phone; berlin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3-scaled.jpg?fit=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3.jpg?resize=652%2C489&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cindy lying side me in bed; phone; berlin\" class=\"wp-image-95852\" width=\"652\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3-scaled.jpg?resize=2000%2C1500&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3-scaled.jpg?resize=1000%2C750&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3-scaled.jpg?resize=830%2C623&amp;ssl=1 830w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3.jpg?w=2360&amp;ssl=1 2360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/2018-05-22-11.42.44-3.jpg?w=3540&amp;ssl=1 3540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The end goal isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pleasure for the sake of it. Perhaps pain and pleasure are the yin-yang\u00e2\u20ac\u201d we need both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERIC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need both pain AND pleasure to accomplish grand things in life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203575,"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-204213","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\/2020\/01\/eric-kim-street-photography-mexixco-city-2020-final-118.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204213","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=204213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204219,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204213\/revisions\/204219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}