{"id":204675,"date":"2020-01-24T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=204675"},"modified":"2020-01-24T10:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:42:38","slug":"in-praise-of-repetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/in-praise-of-repetition\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Repetition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Life is about reps” – Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In modern times, to repeat oneself is seen as bad. But in truth, isn’t life about repetition?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. In working out, inevitably doing more repetitions (and increasing the weight) is a good thing, which will lead you to becoming stronger and putting on more muscle mass.<\/li>
  2. The more you repeat going out and shooting photos, the better! You learn via repetition, judging your photos, then going out to shoot again (an iterative approach to photography).<\/li>
  3. The benefit of re-reading texts, films, or things you’ve already read\/consumed. For example, I re-watched Ghost in the Shell<\/a> [original anime], and I enjoyed it 5x more this time than I did the original time! Furthermore, with philosophy, I find more benefit re-reading a person’s philosophical book several times than just reading a bunch of people’s text once. For example, better to re-read a single author many many times, than to read just 1 book from many others<\/strong>.<\/li>
  4. Re-visiting old places<\/strong>: To gain depth, we must re-visit old places. For example my recent trip to Mexico City<\/a> — I’ve been there 3-4 times now. Every time we go back, we have even a DEEPER appreciation of the place. For example, we’ve now become regulars at MEROMA<\/a> (one of my favorite restaurants in the world and Mexico City), and now we are on first-name basis with the owners (Mercedes and Rodney). It is great– we get special “hookups”, and we feel like family. The same goes to finding a few cities you really like, and re-visit! <\/li>
  5. Repeating your creative act<\/strong>: Do you drink coffee everyday (or several times a day)? Of course. Perhaps we can treat photography the same way; just keep doing creative stuff all day, everyday! Picasso<\/a> apparently made (on average) 1-2 art works a day until he died. Can’t we do the same?<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    CREATIVITY<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
    \"sketches<\/figure>\n\n\n

    Re-discover your inner-child like PICASSO<\/a>:<\/p>\n