{"id":357070,"date":"2022-03-02T08:02:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=357070"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:05:24","slug":"invest-in-yourself-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/invest-in-yourself-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Invest in Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are interested in investing in stocks, <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/24\/betting-on-crypto\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"350649\">crypto<\/a>, etc \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 why not ourselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Yourself as a means to yourself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1170\" height=\"1755\" data-attachment-id=\"357072\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/invest-in-yourself-2\/c01d37ec-298e-4a71-8032-970edc838d71\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71.jpeg?fit=1170%2C1755&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1170,1755\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71.jpeg?fit=1170%2C1755&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71.jpeg?resize=1170%2C1755&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71.jpeg?w=1170&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71.jpeg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71.jpeg?resize=1024%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/C01D37EC-298E-4A71-8032-970EDC838D71.jpeg?resize=600%2C900&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why are we not allowed to posit ourselves as an end unto ourselves? To strive to seek to transform ourselves into the ubermensch? Why must we justify our own <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/20\/full-stack-self-development\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"253912\">self development<\/a> for the sake of having <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/07\/utility\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"289729\">utility<\/a> to and for others?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are interested in investing in stocks, crypto, etc \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 why not ourselves? Yourself as a means to yourself Why are we not allowed to posit ourselves as an end unto ourselves? 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