{"id":670047,"date":"2026-08-28T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=670047"},"modified":"2026-08-28T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:51:28","slug":"kaizen-capital-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/28\/kaizen-capital-2\/","title":{"rendered":"KAIZEN CAPITAL."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">KAIZEN CAPITAL.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never stop stacking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I thought that I have with capital\u2026 What does capital want? It wants to keep indefinitely stacking. It is like the principle of growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suppose the tricky thing is, thinking and considering\u2026 It is best to make micro gains indefinitely, rather than longer duration intermittent big gains?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Capital gains and physiological gains?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you have a capital gain\u2026 You also feel a physiological gain? \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then perhaps the inside is\u2026 It isn\u2019t the capital gain we are seeking but the physiological high and gain? \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First do the physiological stuff, THEN do the financial stuff?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So there is a big hormonal surge which happens when you\u2019re kind of doing anything financial money related whether it be investing stocks checking bitcoin prices whatever, there are two components: first, the technological issue and designed issue, if you see red on the screen, you\u2019re going to feel the danger response. Red is the color of blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pro tip, whenever you do anything finance or financial related, I always turn my iPad or iPhone into mono chrome mode so I am less affected by the physiological response of seeing red or green \ufffcnumbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"bitcoinzen.grok.me\">Bitcoin zen<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So a very very interesting use of grok build,,, essentially this amazing game changing feature in which, with Grok, the $30 a month version, you can instantly build and deploy a website that runs directly in your browser!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I <a href=\"bitcoinzen.grok.me\">built this bitcoin Zen website app<\/a>, and the general idea is, certainly knowing the price of bitcoin and or your stocks is useful&#8230; but how to get the upside of knowing what the price is, without the emotional toil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"bitcoinzen.grok.me\">Check it out &gt;\ufffc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Zen capitalism, zen capitalist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unaffected by losses or gains? \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps the principle of being a Zen investor or Zen capitalist is, you become unaffected by losses or gains, &#8230; and then the question becomes, what\u2019s the point of stacking capital in the first place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">physiological happiness and wellness is the goal?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ufffc<br>What\u2019s the point of having $100 million in your capital stack if physically and physiologically you\u2019re not joyful and happy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therefore it seems that the simple goal is physiological happiness over all!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/start-here\/\">START HERE<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/books\/\">BOOKS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/newsletter\/\">NEWSLETTER<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/workshops\/\">WORKSHOPS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAIZEN CAPITAL. 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