{"id":57648,"date":"2017-07-15T23:38:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T06:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=57648"},"modified":"2017-07-16T00:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T07:08:18","slug":"how-to-think-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/how-to-think-big\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO THINK BIG."},"content":{"rendered":"

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One key to success: THINK BIG.<\/p>\n

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Part of Photography Entrepeneurship 101 by ERIC KIM<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Download PDF ><\/a><\/p>\n

Do you like thinking small?<\/h2>\n

Consider the opposite:<\/p>\n

\n Nobody who has dreamed small has made it big.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anti-success: thinking small.<\/p>\n

Opposite: THINK BIG.<\/p>\n

Thank you umma.<\/h2>\n

Kanye West once said,<\/p>\n

\n A genius is just a kid with good parents.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m grateful, my UMMA (mom) always believed in me. She told me that I could be anyone. I could win. She told me,<\/p>\n

\n If you work hard enough, you can achieve anything.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m aware not everyone was given this privilege. Also, another privilege: growing up in America taught me the cultural tool and power:<\/p>\n

\n Be an individual. Hustle hard, and you can achieve the AMERICAN DREAM.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was built with infinite optimism, even though my dad was gambling away the rent money.<\/p>\n

I truly believed in the AMERICAN DREAM; to hustle hard and scheme, to silence innner-doubt, no screams. I believed in me, thank you to mom and my supportive community.<\/p>\n

HOW TO CREATE YOUR OWN FUTURE<\/h2>\n

I know not everyone was blessed like me.<\/p>\n

A lot of folks are born without nobody believing in them, their dreams, their hopes, and their ambitions.<\/p>\n

Some suggestions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Ruthlessly prune negative people from your life: You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the control who your family is, but you can choose whether to keep them in your life or not. Prime example: my Dad was a leech and just negative vibes. I knew for my personal mental health and the future health of Cindy and my future kids, I had to ruthlessly nip the bud. I blocked his emails, phone number, and any forms of contact. The sad truth, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The wound has healed, but the scar still remains.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n
  2. Fuck the haters: Haters are gonna hate, because they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe in themselves, and cannot relate to you. But disregard and ignore the haters; they ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t your family or related to you. Not only that, but don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget, they are the same hue as you \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they have the same dreams and hopes that you do, and the same regrets, pains, and fears as you. So if haters hate on you, just ignore them.<\/strong> You show more magnanimity by ignoring the gadflies than acknowledging their presence. Like Big Sean says, subtract your \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Zenemies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201c subtract the negative energy.<\/li>\n
  3. Create your own culture: You didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t choose to be born. You didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t choose where to be born. You didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t choose your culture, you just grew up in it. My suggestion: make your own culture and your own inner-society.<\/strong> Study philosophy that speaks to you (for me, that is Stoicism and Zen), listen to music that empowers you (that is Kanye, Jay Z, Kendrick Lamar to me), and consume art which stirs your heart (for me, this is Basquiat, Issey Miyake, Warhol).<\/li>\n
  4. Create your own future: The best way to predict the future is to invent it, as Alan Kay said. You can only make a positive change in your life if you make change. By building shit, or doing shit. If you want to make more money, you must self-promote yourself, build a website and advertise your services, and charge money. If you want to improve your photography, you gotta study the masters of photography and actually go out and make more photos.<\/li>\n
  5. The only way to success: MASSIVE ACTION. Imagine yourself like Thor with your hammer. Make earthquakes, by pounding the pavement, and creating fissures in the earth. Fuck playing video games, create ripples on (real) Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Believe in YOU<\/h2>\n

    Being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153right\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wrong\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in life is just interpretation.<\/p>\n

    You can turn every \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mistake\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in your life as a positive<\/em> lesson.<\/p>\n

    For example, I lost $3,000 in college at age 20 by gambling in penny stocks. My lesson: don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fuck around with speculative \u00e2\u20ac\u0153investing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Now, I only trust cold hard cash.<\/p>\n

    Another mistake: listening to haters. Lesson: ignore haters, just \u00e2\u20ac\u0153do me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and relentlessly focus on my own gut and vision.<\/p>\n

    I have removed the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153wrong\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mistake\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from my vocabulary. The new word is: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153feedback\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153information\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you just see every step in life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journey, you will never lose.<\/p>\n

    And always ask yourself:<\/p>\n

    \n How can I turn this negative happening in my life into a positive?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    BE STRONG,
    \nERIC<\/p>\n

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    Photography Entrepeneurship 101 by ERIC KIM<\/a><\/h1>\n
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    ERIC KIM x HENRI\u00c2\u00a0NECK STRAP<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 by HAPTIC INDUSTRIES<\/a> \/\/ Portrait by Benjamin Thompson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    If you want to make a living (or a killing) from photography, download:<\/p>\n

    \n PHOTOGRAPHY ENTREPRENEURSHIP MANUAL by ERIC KIM<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    KEYS TO SUCCESS<\/h2>\n

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