{"id":592630,"date":"2024-01-23T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=592630"},"modified":"2024-01-23T13:05:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:05:37","slug":"how-to-become-happier-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/23\/how-to-become-happier-7\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW TO BECOME HAPPIER"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Simple — mostly via negativa:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Quit reddit– I actually wonder if reddit is worse<\/em> for you than porn. Funny thought — don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quit porn, quit reddit instead.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Quit alcohol and weed: just drink black coffee — EK 100% fine robusta<\/a>. Also another pro tip — don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t drink arabica, just drink 100% robusta. Why? Less sugar content and sugar molecules and sweetness flavors — robusta also has more caffeine!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. For coffee — only drink it first thing in the morning — a lot; allow yourself unlimited coffee first thing waking up in the morning. But for the rest of the day\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 strict abstinence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go to the club, the mall, the strip club whatever. Just go on a (free) hike and start your own home gym<\/a> instead! Titan fitness independent squat rack<\/a>— I love it. Also rogue fitness 400 pound sandbag<\/a>. Texas power squat bar<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Visit the local museum — LACMA, THE GETTY, GETTY VILLA IN MALBU ETC. The Getty<\/a> in LA is free!<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Read the classics — Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Diogenes, Epictetus, Heraclitus, the philosophers who came before<\/em> Socrates.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    Happy exercises and activities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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    1. Buy vibram 5 finger shoes<\/a>, just black. I like the EL-X model<\/a>. Just make this your everyday shoe. Wear it to the gym, to work, grocery store, go hiking whatever. Theory — there is more intelligence in your (bare) feet than your hands?<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Intermittent fasting: no breakfast no lunch, only one insanely massive dinner a night. I prefer 100% carnivore diet — aim for 5 pounds of beef\/lamb a night. Costco Kirkland boneless lamb leg roast only $5.50 USD a pound, the new Costco wagyu American ground beef also very good– only $5USD a pound.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. Get a Costco membership: buy all your meat, clothes there.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Stop using Google (free service)– also stop using Gmail. Register your own email (like eric@erickim.com) and no more Gmail. Use the Apple Mail client on your phone or laptop. Better yet,,, uninstall email from your phone<\/strong>. Remember once upon a time it was seen as insanely strange to have work email on your personal private phone?<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. Get paid premium ChatGPT — only $20 a month– I get at least $10,000 USD a month of metaphorical value from it every month!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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      Finances<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. Stop buying USD DOLLARS, buy Bitcoin instead. Coinbase.com is easy or the Cash app– owned by Square and Jack Dorsey. Block.xyz<\/a> as parent company.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. For clothes buy lululemon we made too much clothes<\/a> — maximum quality, minimal price. Men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shorts<\/a>. Also this new ten thousand<\/a> brand seems cool. Surplus sale<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. Quit going to the gym, go on hikes or just workout at home instead.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Watch the movie FIGHT CLUB<\/a>— Tyler Durden — \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a car!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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        Thinking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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        1. When in doubt, delay. Obvious decisions are obvious and should habe ZERO ounces of hesitation! For example with life, lifestyle things, finding a place to live and home —<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Simple — mostly via negativa: Happy exercises and activities Finances Thinking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-592630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592630","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=592630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592631,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592630\/revisions\/592631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}