{"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>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>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>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>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 luxury car (if you already have a car) won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t lead to any meaningful advantage. Having an iPhone is certainly superior to [&hellip;]<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330001","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\/2021\/09\/img_0416.jpg?fit=1668%2C2388&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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}]}}