{"id":330001,"date":"2021-09-20T01:12:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/will-it-give-you-a-meaningful-advantage-in-life-or-not\/"},"modified":"2021-09-20T01:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T05:12:21","slug":"will-it-give-you-a-meaningful-advantage-in-life-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/20\/will-it-give-you-a-meaningful-advantage-in-life-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Will It Give You a Meaningful Advantage in Life or Not?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A great turbo thought I had tonight:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When contemplating purchases or investments, try to honestly ask yourself \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will this give me an (unfair) advantage in life, or not?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, buying that new luxury car (if you already have a car) won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lead to any meaningful advantage. Having an iPhone is certainly superior to having an Android phone, but having the most high end or brand new iPhone won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you a meaningful advantage in life compared to a standard iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similarly speaking, shooting with a Leica won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you any meaningful advantage in life, in your photographic life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So try to think hard and deep \u00e2\u20ac\u201d don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get suckered by things which you perceive won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give you a meaningful advantage in life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great turbo thought I had tonight: When contemplating purchases or investments, try to honestly ask yourself \u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will this give me an (unfair) advantage in life, or not?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d For example, buying that new \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330000,"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-330001","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\/2021\/09\/img_0416.jpg?fit=1668%2C2388&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330001","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=330001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}