That which threatens to destroy you only makes you stronger:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ufffc Perhaps, being the Uber stoic, ultra Stoic, hyper stoic. This will be my life legacy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
First, it seems that everyone just wants a purpose to life. Something that will outlive them. Not taking in consideration the ones and zeros in your bank account, and also\u2026 Becoming a little bit more careless about yourself your life your life situation, whatever. In some ways, getting over yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We cannot control the external world, but in some ways, with enough training and discipline\u2026 We can control our inner world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading the meditations by Marcus Aurelius is so honest and pure because, he was not writing for an audience. He was fleshing out his own thoughts, for himself by himself. That the act of writing itself was therapeutic. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps this is a good insight, at this point with ChatGPT, writing doesn\u2019t really have an economic value anymore. In the past, writing 1000 words a day was seen as good, now\u2026 There is like zero utility to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even with art, philosophy and aesthetics, AI has no interesting. Unorthodox thoughts. Reading a little bit of nietzsche is a quadrillion times more interesting than anything from Grok, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first thought is memento mori\u2026 not even your own life, but the life of your spouse and your children. To live a life with radical hyper presence, seems to be an interesting Zen practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also, this is where photography is very helpful: by putting away your phone and only having your camera, I believe that you could actually live more fully in the moment, to enjoy and appreciate each moment with your kids, being alive, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And then, photography as a meditative practice, rather than an economic one? \ufffc<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A touch of madness is also wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assuming that life is war, then, we need to build our soul like the military. The military soul. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n That, life is not necessarily seeking ease, but productive pain, resistance, training, askesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trauma could be productive, if, you have the right physiological approach. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is an idea of post traumatic growth<\/em> , the idea that a great wound stimulates your bodies, growth and recuperative processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, an idea, a life without trauma is not a life worth living<\/strong>. That ironically, if you want to maximize your pleasure, joy and happiness in life, you also need to maximize the trauma? \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not trauma for the sake of it, but, a traumatic thing happens, and by necessity\u2026 Your body and your mind and your soul grows a thick stoic armor. This is what happened to me when I was 12 years old, and I suppose I stuck with Me until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n necessity is the stimulus and mother of all innovation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n What is the worst life? A life of boredom and lack of purpose. Even Nietzsche says, \ufffc if a man has his why<\/em> in life, he could easily figure out the how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \ufffc Therefore, a big thing to consider is, the why of your life. Your life purpose, your life goals, etc. \ufffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That which threatens to destroy you only makes you stronger: \ufffc Perhaps, being the Uber stoic, ultra Stoic, hyper stoic. This will be my life legacy: First, it seems that everyone just wants a \u2026<\/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_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-669719","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\/669719","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=669719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669720,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669719\/revisions\/669720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}That which threatens to destroy you only makes you stronger<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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