Enthusiasm as a god dwelling inside you. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So I think the first big idea is, with anything in life\u2026 Always follow enthusiasm, only do that which you are enthusiastic about, ignore or do not do things that you are unenthusiastic about. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My general idea is, the world is big enough in which all of the social economic needs of everybody will be met through mutual cooperation if everyone simply followed what they were enthusiastic about. That is, everybody unlocking their own archimedes lever in terms of what they are enthusiastic about, rather than follow some sort of external measures of something else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having reached all of the external markers of success in modern day society, I could say that\u2026 At the end of the day, the only thing which truly matters is your own autotelic sense of self motivation, and for me, my ultimate pleasure is waking up every single day with a strong sense of enthusiastic imagine a life in which, to go to sleep every single night, extremely grateful for the day, and you go to sleep excited for the next day, like a kid going to sleep before the night of Christmas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My first idea is, typically\u2026 You must spend more time subtracting external sources of information and media, no matter how good or bad. Typically I think the only things worth reading are at least 100 years old, ideally 200 300, or 2000 years old. The Iliad and Odyssey by Homer, might be the only useful manuals in terms of human nature?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also suppose that, spending intermittent time living abroad from your own mother country is always useful because you start to realize how ridiculous a lot things are back home, and when you open up a novel perspective, there always seems to be some good clarity that comes about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The best plan is no plan. Especially once you have kids, to treat each and every single day like a blank slate day is wise because, you unlock infinite scalability in terms of your day. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The privilege of being spontaneous only comes around if you have nothing planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To have a plan beforehand is seen as prudent and wise, however it is not because you truly understand the nature of reality and the universe, you will know clearly that, with chance randomness and chaos, a lot of unforeseen things arise whether opportunistic or not, at the most random moments. Therefore, to cultivate emptiness is wise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be enthusiastic involves other people being part of society, because\u2026 You always have to be enthusiastic towards somebody towards a concept that involves other humans. Enthusiasm is sociological<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also\u2026 Maximum physical and physiological activity during the day, even if you\u2019re like a high-powered tech CEO, the best role model is like a Jack Dorsey, who essentially is like an off the grid Zen digital monk, like the ideal idea is if you have to do meetings or phone calls or whatever, to just do them all day while hiking around in the mountains, and also\u2026 Being very selective on not getting disturbed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have targets I think is also not a good idea because\u2026 You\u2019re inquiring your measure of success and enthusiasm based on something external that you cannot control. Even enthusiasm itself, is very elusive because you cannot force yourself to be enthusiastic<\/strong>. But perhaps you could force yourself to not engage in things you\u2019re not enthusiastic about?<\/em> \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n My general recipe is, especially on the weekends, do like a digital detox, only use your phone for like Google Maps, maximum time in the great outdoors wilderness, tending to your garden, weightlifting outside in the open sun etc. I mean it\u2019s pretty simple, most people suffer from insomnia not because they are insomniacs, but because they are simply not engaged in enough arduous outdoor physical labor. Like on Saturday or Sunday just experiment, spend the entire day hiking or working out outside or at the beach or in the mountains or whatever\u2026 You\u2019re going to sleep better that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My formula is simple: better to do 30 minutes of insanely productive work when you are fit and well rested, rather than 12 hours of sleep deprived work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, the greatest blessing of AI is, if done correctly\u2026 You can selectively reduce the amount of work that you do, not increase it. I think the negative trend is, now that a lot of people have AI\u2026 They keep filling in their gaps with more AI related work rather than simply engaging on their own bodies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, the ideal is you have your AI slave working for you eight hours a day, and then you just use the whole day, walking around working out thinking, being artistic and philosophical, being social, grateful towards life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Have I ever met a happy painter artist or photographer? No. Therefore, the artwork they produce is like\u2026 Extremely dark and negative not even in a good way. And this is infectious, it is like painting COVID-19 on a canvas, and having other people exposed to it, catching their own negative soul?<\/p>\n\n\n\n This also seems obvious, if your job is a trash collector, you\u2019re probably going to smell like trash all day, or if your job is sewage, same thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assuming you do not like the smell of trash sewage it is probably wise not to engage with individuals or places or societies or clubs or Internet places which are metaphorical sewage plants. Like for example, social media\u2026 Is like everyone consuming feces, and complaining about how sick they are and how much they hate consuming feces, but they are addicted to it like dopamine and keep doing it<\/strong>. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Assuming that you\u2019re an investor, certainly some connection to outside news and information is critical, and a little bit of this is where you\u2019re using AI could be useful as a filter because at least you have some<\/em> agency over it, not all. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n What\u2019s also difficult is\u2026 You could have insight and foresight about something, and be correct\u2026 But the time span might be like 4 to 10 years. So then, being a short term trader\u2026 doesn\u2019t seem worth it in terms of the payoff because, there is so much macroeconomic things you cannot control? Not even AI could predict black Swan events<\/strong>. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll give you example\u2026 Some people get into hiking and walking or whatever because of a fitness but I do it simply out of an existential way, like\u2026 My body and soul genuinely loves hiking? And I do not desire any sort of outcome from it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same thing goes with weightlifting\u2026 To lift weights is almost like clearing out my bowels on daily basis, it will always be advantageous and feel good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you\u2019re simply munching on sod all day, certainly your hormones will be depressed, and your body will not find any enthusiasm or motivation. enthusiasm comes from your stomach and your leg legs<\/strong>. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beef, pork ribs, fatty chicken, beef liver and organ meats, beef ribs, eggs including the yolk, fatty salmon avocados and things which deeply nourish you, will certainly help power your enthusiasm towards life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It doesn\u2019t matter if you are a hermit, a philosopher, an entrepreneur etc.\u2026 I think what we all strive towards is creating tools information and ideas to empower the human race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even with AI\u2026 All of the negative commentary is not useful because\u2026 Once again it is like fire\u2026 You could use it to cook your beef brisket, or you could use fire to burn down your house. Those who can most intelligently learn how to use the fire are the ones who shall thrive<\/strong>. \ufffc\ufffc\ufffc\ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n I think the ultimate optimism in life is, assuming that maybe every day, you can grow one percent, or even half a percent, every single day, indefinitely? Like an infinitely scaleable kaizen approach<\/strong>? \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Success and progress is highly subjective, and I suppose it is injured through your own judgments. So maybe\u2026 The best way to judge yourself is not through numbers and metrics but, your own personal self assessment, like Warren Buffett says your inner scorecard<\/strong>?\ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n ERIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n BUILD ON!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enthusiasm as a god dwelling inside you. \ufffc Acting upon enthusiasm not fear So I think the first big idea is, with anything in life\u2026 Always follow enthusiasm, only do that which you are \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_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-670118","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\/670118","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=670118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670119,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670118\/revisions\/670119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}don\u2019t follow rationality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
the body and productivity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
enthusiasm channeled into your work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
surrounding yourself with positive souls<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Filters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Enjoying the process rather than outcomes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
the hormones of enthusiasm<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
empowering the human race<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Infinitely scalable growth?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTime to conquer the world.<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"