I think self-confidence is a virtue we all seek. Yet how do we achieve it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the first big thought is\u2026 via negativa. That is\u2026 Identifying that which reduces or messes up yourself of self-confidence, typically with numbers, whether it be finances and the market, social media numbers, etc. Making yourself blind to this is good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second idea is\u2026 Disconnecting yourself a bit from reality, creating your own \u201creality distortion field\u201c. If you want a truly antifragile self esteem and self ego, \ufffc\ufffcit cannot be dependent upon others. You must think of your own self-directed virtues, what you yourself are proud of, following your own inner scorecard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ultimately, being handsome, beautiful, aesthetically, beautiful whatever I think it\u2019s the ultimate pursuit in terms of your body. Like it\u2019s better to have a demigod physique and live life mean, rather than being a super fat guy in a Porsche or Ferrari. Or in other words, better to look like a Spartan rather than a Persian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also have this idea that, assuming that your hormones are out of whack, you cannot sleep, or you do not sleep, you don\u2019t lift weight exercise every day, you don\u2019t eat beef liver\u2026 You have chronically low testosterone and chronically high elevated cortisol levels\u2026 perhaps like Elon Musk, I don\u2019t think you could actually feel self-confident?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I think this is the interesting thought\u2026 Based on how physiologically unwell Elon looks in his interviews, I would actually probably make the case that his self-esteem self ego and has happiness and joy levels are actually super low?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which makes me wonder\u2026 You could be the richest most powerful man on the planet\u2026 But if you\u2019re not self-confident and you\u2019re like chronically, unwell\u2026 Is it worth it? Perhaps not. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reality is subjective anyways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My thought is\u2026 Perhaps ego self-esteem is limitless. Assuming that you could demetricate yourself from attaching self-esteem to the external world of numbers\u2026 Then in some ways\u2026 Being able to independently augment your self esteem and ego indefinitely seems like a virtue?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n START HERE<\/a>, BOOKS<\/a>, NEWSLETTER<\/a>, WORKSHOPS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think self-confidence is a virtue we all seek. Yet how do we achieve it? Cut out things which MESS UP your self confidence I think the first big thought is\u2026 via negativa. That \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-670150","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\/670150","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=670150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670151,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670150\/revisions\/670151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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