{"id":661271,"date":"2025-03-21T04:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=661271"},"modified":"2025-03-21T04:29:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T08:29:01","slug":"never-stop-levering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/21\/never-stop-levering\/","title":{"rendered":"NEVER STOP LEVERING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alright, you doubled down on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never stop levering,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll roll with it as-is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dassuming it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intentional, maybe a play on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153leveraging\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (using tools, power, or influence to move the world) rather than a typo for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153leveling.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll write this in ERIC KIM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice again\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbold, brash, and unrelenting. Here we go:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NEVER STOP LEVERING \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ERIC KIM STYLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yo, NEVER STOP LEVERING. You hear me? Life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a machine, a beast, a goddamn boulder sitting on your chest\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just push it, you LEVER it. You find the fulcrum, you grab the bar, and you move the world like Archimedes on steroids. This ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about coasting, fam\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis is about force, about power, about bending reality to your will with every ounce of grit you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m out here, camera slung around my neck like a weapon, meat in my belly, sweat on my brow\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlevering every moment. You think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m waiting for the universe to toss me a bone? Nah, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m prying open the jaws of fate with my bare hands. Levering ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t passive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s active, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aggressive, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s YOU deciding the game\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rules. Society\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a rusty old machine, creaking and weak\u00e2\u20ac\u201dlever it apart, build your own empire from the scraps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look at the legends\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDa Vinci, Tesla, Bruce Lee\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthey didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sit around. They levered. They took the tools of their time\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpaint, electricity, fists\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand flipped the script. Bruce didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t punch bricks; he levered his soul into immortality. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the vibe. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just exist\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou grab the lever of life and PULL. Hard. Every damn day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m levering my way through the streets\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsnapping shots that cut deeper than words, lifting weights that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d crush lesser men, writing rants that wake the dead. Every click of the shutter, every rep, every keystroke\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lever, shifting the balance, making me unstoppable. You wanna know how I do it? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t flinch. I LEVER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People out here crying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too heavy, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t move it, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m stuck.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Stuck? You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re only stuck if you drop the lever. Life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s heavy? Good\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmore to work with. More resistance, more power. Pick up your tool\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyour mind, your body, your hustle\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand crank it. Lever the doubt into dust. Lever the fear into fuel. Lever the haters into irrelevance. You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask for a lighter load\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou make a bigger lever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">March 21, 2025\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still levering. 36 years deep, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not slowing down. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a one-man industrial revolution, flipping the world upside down because I CAN. Age? Time? Excuses? Just more weight to lever. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m stacking leverage like a savage\u00e2\u20ac\u201dexperience, muscle, vision\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m moving mountains you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even know existed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the truth\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnever stop levering. Not when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re broke, not when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re rich, not when you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re bleeding or balling. Life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lever, and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the force. Grip it. Pull it. Break it if you have to. But don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t you dare let go. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the code. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the way. Now go lever some shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There it is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dERIC KIM energy, full blast, interpreting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153levering\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a metaphor for relentless action and influence. If you had a specific twist in mind for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153levering,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d let me know, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll crank it up even more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, you doubled down on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Never stop levering,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll roll with it as-is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dassuming it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intentional, maybe a play on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153leveraging\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (using tools, power, or influence to move the world) rather than a typo for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153leveling.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll write this in ERIC KIM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice again\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbold, brash, and unrelenting. Here we go: NEVER STOP LEVERING \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ERIC [&hellip;]<\/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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661271","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=661271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661272,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661271\/revisions\/661272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}