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To be a productive photographer simply means that you produce many photos. In modern day life, when we think about productivity, we tend to just think of people who are really good at sending emails and being responsive. This is not real productivity. Real productivity<\/a> is actually creating and producing things, not to simply respond and be responsive to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have an interesting theory; I believe there is actually a deep link between muscle<\/a> and photography. That, the more I build muscle, the more muscular I become, and the stronger I become, I also become a happier and more productive photographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The best way to become more motivated in your photography is to delete your Instagram<\/a>. Also, just upload all your photos to your own website blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metrics are bad. Metrics mediocritizes. That means, the more you add metrics to something, the more mediocre you become<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why do we feel this pressure to always add metrics to everything? My theory is because the modern-day man has no self-esteem, and feels that in order to justify himself, or feel mighty and strong, he must tie his self-esteem and his self ego to a number, or metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, how is this bad? Numbers are a slave mentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Progress\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a modern notion, and also a bad notion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you think about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153progress\u00e2\u20ac\u0153, typically it is tied to numbers. That when you see the number go up, it is a good thing. And when you see the numbers go down, it is a bad thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, numbers are a funny thing because sometimes when a number goes up it is good, and sometimes when the number goes down it is good. And sometimes when the number goes up it is bad, and sometimes when the number goes down it is bad. It is highly context dependent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, increasing your fat and adipose tissue and seeing the number go up is bad. To see your body fat percentage, and your adipose fat tissue going down is a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The basic thought we have as photographers is that the more likes, comments, and the more followers we get, the better. But should this really be the goal? Maybe not. For example, assuming that we are the new Spartans<\/a>, maybe it is better to see the numbers go down. Rather than having 1 million Persian slaves, better to have the elite spartan<\/a> 300.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also a funny thing, when you see certain numbers go up, for example, enrollment numbers at a University of California university, it is typically seen as a bad thing. Better to be a Harvard<\/a> or a Brown University<\/a>, in which, the enrollment is actually very very low. To become more prestigious is actually to have fewer people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or, let us consider a party. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having a rich and famous Hollywood party, what is better, to have a single Kim Kardashian attend your party, or 1 million nobodies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or with fashion, is it better to on 1000 articles of H&M clothing, or a handful of Balenciaga<\/a> clothes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the best way to see and experience the world? The purity of a child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes. Child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mind<\/a>, child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spend more time with kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example, spending more time with my niece and nephew Benjamin and Amelia. Amelia is now seven years old, and she still has fresh eyes. Even more pure is Benjamin, who is only four years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even something I have discovered is that once kids enter school, they lose some purity of their mind. They fall more victim to trying to fit in, and their own true individual preferences become overshadowed by peer pressure, and trying to fit in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I really think that the traditional K-12 education, even the modern-day university system is bad for individuality and creativity. Even for myself, the last decade, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been trying my best to unlearn, and desocialize myself from past biases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I believe a really big advance for our own creativity is to kill our past masters in photography<\/a>. This means, disregard what our masters<\/a> have said in the past, and we must start afresh. Start anew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What does master even mean? Master means maestro, teacher. At a certain point, we must become the teacher, we must become the master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How to become your own master in photography<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Realize and recognize that now, you are your own independent thinker, photographer, and you become the teacher.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n How can you teach photography? Simple \u00e2\u20ac\u201d on your own blog, your own email newsletter, your own YouTube channel, your own podcast, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For example if we think about the Matrix<\/a>, Morpheus was initially the teacher of Neo. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a certain point in which Neo becomes the new master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Carte blanche means blank slate. A fresh new piece of paper. A new fresh beginning, wiping the slate clean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Disregard all of the past bias in photography, and start new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n Become a new photographer<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n HAPTIC TOOLS to conquer it all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n HAPTIC PHOTO SUPPLY ><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Moar EK BLOG<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Upload them to arsbeta.com<\/p>\n\n\n\nMuscle and Photography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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