Most paintings are boring

potential and time?

Why Doesn’t Anything Satisfy Me?

But perhaps this is my superpower?

Fortunately, the statics of Lumix G9 photos shot in grainy dynamic black-and-white mode and JPEG satisfy me!

Also, meat satisfies me! Beef neck bone is phenomenal and only 99 cents a pound! Instant pot for the win.

Problem: I have yet found a gym in LA which satisfies me.

Good thing: I am very very satisfied with the apartment me and Cindy found here in Culver City.

Also good thing, I am very satisfied with ERIC KIM Omakase coffee!

Also, I’m very happy with the clothing I have designed and made.

Theory: the only way to become satisfied with anything is to do and build and make it yourself? To innovate it yourself? To create it yourself?

Entrepreneurship by KIM

Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!

Become you.

1. ZERO FINANCIAL CONCERNS
2. How to Gain Ascendancy
3. Business vs Entrepreneurship?
4. TAKE REAL CHANCES
5. Making Money as a Hobby
6. The Best Exercises for Entrepreneurs
7. INCOME VS EXPENSES MONEY LIFESTYLE PHILOSOPHY
8. Entrepreneurship is the privilege of being able to attempt something new
9. How to Become More Influential
10. The Point of Life is Entrepreneurship?
11. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
12. Become the Outlier
13. Self Reliance
14. How to Extend Your Reach
15. NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
16. PVP (Player vs Player)
17. How I became so influential
18. WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
19. WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
20. INNOVATION THOUGHTS
21. OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
22. GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
23. PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
24. USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
25. HOW TO THRIVE
26. Target Demographic
27. Ambition Over Happiness
28. Anti Collaboration
29. The Will to Economy
30. Why New?
31. CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
32. No Looking Back.
33. 1000x Different
34. BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
35. THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
36. EXTREME INNOVATION.
37. Practicality is Boring
38. BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
39. NEVER STOP ITERATING.
40. CONDENSE.
41. Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
42. Control Over Convenience
43. Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
44. INSANELY DIFFERENT.
45. Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
46. THE GREAT PASSION.
47. Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
48. ONE REP MAX.
49. WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
50. LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
51. NEVER STOP LINKING.
52. THE GREATEST.
53. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
54. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
55. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
56. COMPLACENCY.
57. JUST BUY IT.
58. ALL ABOUT YOU.
59. MOVE THE WORLD
60. Boring or Not Boring?
61. What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
62. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
63. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
64. Difficulty & Interest
65. The Will to Expansion
66. What is Work?
67. SOUL IN THE GAME.
68. JUST START IT.
69. Not Boring
70. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
71. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
72. Speed is Paramount
73. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
74. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
75. Dissatisfaction is Good
76. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
77. In Praise of the New
78. Uncorrupted Desires
79. You Cannot Fake Passion
80. SELF-OVERGOING
81. FORM YOURSELF.
82. Personal Entrepreneurship
83. RELENTLESS.
84. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
85. A Life of Expansion
86. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
87. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
88. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
89. Invest in New Developments
90. Investing Towards What End?
91. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
92. Speed Wins
93. The Philosophy of Happiness
94. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
95. Never Stop Iterating
96. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
97. Less But More Premium
98. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
99. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
100. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
101. Manifest Your Destiny
102. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
103. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
104. How to Do More Work
105. CONTROL.
106. Competition is for Losers
107. Change.
108. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
109. Pseudo Individualism
110. Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings

Think for Yourself.

1. Survival vs Thrivival
2. Become Rich
3. SECRETS.
4. Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
5. Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
6. How to Predict the Future
7. Tools of Mass Distraction
8. So What?

FREEDOM

• On Leaving a Legacy
• I wanna be me!
• Productivity for personal freedom
• How to Purchase your Freedom

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Never stop innovating.

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Entrepreneurship Mindset

• What is Your Dream in Life?
• 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
• Why Be Normal?
• How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?

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Put a Dent in the Universe.

• Innovate for the Sake of Innovating!
• Reality is Malleable!
• Stoic Entrepreneurship
• Against Self-Preservation
• The Purpose of Life is to Make New Stuff!

Why am I so insanely passionate about photography?

First, part of it is an instinctual impulse. If I see something beautiful, I must photograph it.

Second, my passion for geometry and composition. If I see something interesting, to me photography is like a fun visual game.

In this limited world, which are some big things you wish to change fix or resolve?

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1. Traffic?

One of the big things I am very interested in is fixing this issue of traffic. Honestly speaking, during rush-hour the traffic is intolerable.

I’ve only lived here in LA for about two weeks, it seems that the big optimization we are trying to make is trying to save time. Fortunately we live within walking distance to the Culver City downtown area, which is great because we could kill two birds with one stone — A) we’re not stuck in traffic and B) we can enjoy the sun and the walk.

Even the big issue; the closest LA fitness to me is a 5 minute drive, but even on the drive back, it seems that the bumper to bumper traffic during rush-hour takes me almost 10 minutes! Insanely annoying!

Therefore some things I’m trying to figure out is how to save time in terms of fitness. The first simple thing is to just walk a lot, walking maybe the most beneficial thing you could do for your health and wellness.

The second thing is sun exposure. The more sun time you have, the better. If you’re worried about getting skin cancer or whatever, just put on a hat lots of sunblock and cover up.

Third, I really been enjoying going to the park and working out, both for the social life, the fresh air, and also for general well-being. I recommend the Kenneth Hahn park in LA — just drive all the way on top of the hill! There is a good calisthenics workout area.

Fourth, matters of health and physiology. A very practical thought I have is to just sell out the big bucks, pay for the 100% grass-fed beef, I think the benefits for you will be instrumental. This includes sleeping better, sleeping deeper, feeling more energized, and also certainly muscle Physiology related concepts.

2. Innovation?

Also a big thing I’m trying to innovate and pioneer is in regards to innovation. For me maybe this is my personal passion and my Archimedes lever — I am addicted to innovation, trying to make things better, more efficient and effective etc., and trying to come up with interesting novel ways to improve our lives. Why is this? Because I feel like I have some sort of duty as I have been seeking a lot of answers my whole life, and I think only recently I’ve found some answers.

3. Photo and art

At the end of the day, my number one greatest passion is photography.

Therefore, my passion for photography; promoting photography, helping encourage photographers.

4. How to make an insanely great impact?

How does one make an insanely great impact on the planet? I think it is simple; just ascertain that which you are insanely concerned about, what you care insanely about, and then use all your resources and power to seek to resolve that!

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Money?

The Peter Thiel idea:

Perhaps “profit” is a pedestrian concept.

Then instead, what we seek instead is not “making money“, but building something insanely great, and then the profits will follow later.

Also another thought from Peter Thiel from his zero to one book:

Perhaps the best way to think of money or approach money is not to concern yourself with profits.

For example, Amazon for a very very very long time focused on growth instead of profits and now it looks like Amazon is running through the world. On the contrary, companies like Apple have also been very intelligent in pricing the products very high, and also being one of the most profitable companies on the planet.

But I suppose my question is this; why are we so concerned and obsessed with profits? What is it a sense of? A sense of growth, a good sense?

Income vs profits

Income, profits, expenses, net gain, savings.

There are a lot of ways to think and consider this. First and foremost, it is possible to actually make a more humble income, but create a massive savings.

Security?

I sense of security as a mindset. It don’t matter if you got $100 million in the bank, as long as you are concerned about security money or something else, you will never feel secure.

The reason why I think this is such a critical thing to consider is that people often think that more money means more security. But is this true? No.

And also, security towards what ends?

The first thought is we often seek security perhaps for our families and our future children. For example, it seems that physiologically, if a woman wants to give birth, or beget children, she needs to be in some sort of psychologically and physiologically robust health, in order to beget children. Often the reason why stillbirths occur, especially in the context of war, famine, disease, or other stressful situations is that a woman and her body knows that if the environment is not fitting to give birth to children, she will not.

Also, at theory; if an anxious mother gives birth during a tumultuous time, naturally her kids will also have higher levels of anxiety. Why? Survival mechanism. For example if a woman gives birth in refugee camp, certainly she has high anxiety. And as a consequence, her children also having high anxiety may keep the child alive! A child who is too chill and relaxed in a perilous situation might not make it.

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Why make changes?

First, it is my thought that what man desires to do is exert his willpower and force upon the planet. Ultimately, I think this is our desired endgame.

For example, you could either do it in embodied reality, on the Internet, whatever.

Second, I think it is an issue of happiness and joy for a man or a person or even a child to see how he or she can affect change or manipulate the world. For example the joy of art, physics, mechanics, buttons etc.; if I press this and do this, then the reaction will be XYZ. Our great delight in action and reaction.

Now what?

A very very simple way to change the world:

Make a website/blog, and just keep posting your thoughts, opinions and philosophies.

Also, just record and vlog your thoughts and just post it to YouTube or make a podcast.

I think the big secret is to make it open and public, and easily indexable by Google.

For example, it seems the best way to get “discovered“ is organically via Google search. If not that, word-of-mouth. Or having people forward your emails to another friend.

To build a website, either IONOS.com or bluehost.com or Amazon Web Services Lightsail. I recently built two new websites; ERICkimphilosophy.com as well as erickimfitness.com

Why am I so passionate about websites?

I think it is a timing thing. I was born in 1988, and I recall in elementary school making my own firstgeocities.com website. Then later I learned how to blog, inspired by Maddox, when I was around 11 years old. I still remember the hilarity of his post on “why you should beat your children“, and me and my friends all laughing and saying how it was true.

Then later, xanga.com, and starting to blog. Then building my own website. And then the trend to continued.

The reason why I love websites so much is that it is an infinite canvas for your thoughts, your ambitions, your passions etc.

No limits, no upper ceiling!

Also an insanely great joy and recent discovery; IONOS.com recently upgraded her file limit to practically infinity!

To infinity and beyond!

Some more ambitious thoughts:

Elon Goals

The breath and future vision of Elon Musk is quite phenomenal. For example, driving in LA today, I saw the OG Tesla roadster, convertible electric car, which was essentially a retrofitted Lotus. Even when I was an undergrad at UCLA, I remember seeing one of the original Tesla dealerships.

Dream bigger?

A very simple thought I have is that it is best to set an audaciously great goal, and either miss it, or meet it halfway, rather than setting the bar too low.

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What do you want out of your life?

Not happiness, not even necessarily “joy“. I think all of these are too overly simplistic commoditized notions.

For example, as man, what is it that we see to do achieve or create? I think this should be the critical goal, not happiness joy making money etc.

Everything is a work in progress

A generalized thought I have towards life is that there is no such thing as finality — everything is a continuum, and all about changes evolution and difference.

For example, today after I hit the hot sauna at the gym, and I witnessed my body in the mirror, muscles bulging, and glistening like a god, I thought to myself:

Wow, my physique is perfect.

Now what?

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The future for photography

I think moving forward, I want to continue to help innovate and pave great insights into photography. It has to deal with motivation, inspiration, and also the pragmatics of composition, equipment, aesthetics etc.

The best camera set up

No no no, not the newest iPhone Pro Titan, or not a Leica, not a Fujifilm, maybe not even a Ricoh. Currently I think the new GOAT is the LUMIX G9 paired with the 14mm F2.5 lens, or I’m sure you could just get the new LUMIX G9 mark II.

Why?

1. First of all, it isn’t as big as you would think it is. I think one of the big benefits of a micro four third system is however relatively compact and light it is.
2. Second, it will last. My annoyance with the Ricoh GR cameras is that they don’t last. They eventually break, for me within a year or two. Super annoying.
3. Third, the tilting calculating LCD screen is actually surprisingly useful! I’ve been using a lot to photograph Seneca, with very low angles, and the result is that the photos look much more cinematic!
4. Fourth, the straight out of Camera JPEG actually look really great! Both for the dynamic black-and-white, gritty monochrome look, as well as color!

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Now what?

1. Upload your best photos to arsbeta.com; the only place to get real feedback on your photos on the entire planet.
2. Why? — I think actually more effective than ChatGPT is the Why app? Why? ChatGPT gives you answers, whereas the why app encourages you to think, consider, and ask why?

How to advance your photography art and thinking

Turbocharge your mind, and also your creativity at an upcoming ERIC KIM workshop:

1. CONQUER STREET PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILLY, OCTOBER 14th, 2023
2. DISCOVER YOUR CREATIVE MISSION IN LIFE: DOWNTOWN LA, November 4th, 2023
3. INTRODUCTION TO STOICISM WORKSHOP: Downtown LA, DECEMBER 2nd, 2023

2024

1. CONQUER CONFIDENCE ONLINE WORKSHOP: Jan 27, 2024
2. April 21st, 2024: ZEN PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP (info TBA)
3. Social Skills workshop TBA

Workshops Page.

What to read?

Maybe it’s a good idea to read the new Elon Musk biography by Walter Isaacson!

And of course, free books by KIM >

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Now what?

Some simple ways to stimulate your thinking and your physiology include just hitting up the hot sauna at your local commercial gym, or going to the park, doing some basic calisthenics and chin ups, taking in the sun.

Also, eat well. Get some Wagyu ground beef at the local Costco, or just buy some 100% grass fed ground beef. I think it’s the best bang for the buck food.

For coffee, ERIC KIM OMAKASE COFFEE is the only thing I drink now!

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More thoughts to come!

1. EK BLOG
2. EK PHILOSOPHY
3. EK FITNESS

Forward the turbo!

If this part even one interesting idea with you, feel free to forward to a friend!

ERIC KIM TURBO NEWS >

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CHANGES?

In this limited world, which are some big things you wish to change fix or resolve?

1. Traffic?

So one of the big things I am very interested in is fixing this issue of traffic. Honestly speaking, during rush-hour the traffic is intolerable.

I’ve only lived here in LA for about two weeks, it seems that the big optimization we are trying to make is trying to save time. Fortunately we live within walking distance to the Culver City downtown area, which is great because we could kill two birds with one stone — A) we’re not stuck in traffic and B) we can enjoy the sun and the walk.

Even the big issue; the closest LA fitness to me is a 5 minute drive, but even on the drive back, it seems that the bumper to bumper traffic during rush-hour takes me almost 10 minutes! Insanely annoying!

Therefore some things I’m trying to figure out is how to save time in terms of fitness. The first simple thing is to just walk a lot, walking maybe the most beneficial thing you could do for your health and wellness.

The second thing is sun exposure. The more sun time you have, the better. If you’re worried about getting skin cancer or whatever, just put on a hat lots of sunblock and cover up.

Third, I really been enjoying going to the park and working out, both for the social life, the fresh air, and also for general well-being. I recommend the Kenneth Hahn park in LA — just drive all the way on top of the hill! There is a good calisthenics workout area.

Fourth, matters of health and physiology. A very practical thought I have is to just sell out the big bucks, pay for the 100% grass-fed beef, I think the benefits for you will be instrumental. This includes sleeping better, sleeping deeper, feeling more energized, and also certainly muscle Physiology related concepts.

2. Innovation?

Also a big thing I’m trying to innovate and pioneer is in regards to innovation. For me maybe this is my personal passion and my Archimedes lever — I am addicted to innovation, trying to make things better, more efficient and effective etc., and trying to come up with interesting novel ways to improve our lives. Why is this? Because I feel like I have some sort of duty as I have been seeking a lot of answers my whole life, and I think only recently I’ve found some answers.

3. Photo and art

At the end of the day, my number one greatest passion is photography.

Therefore, my passion for photography; promoting photography, helping encourage photographers.

4. How to make an insanely great impact?

How does one make an insanely great impact on the planet? I think it is simple; just ascertain that which you are insanely concerned about, what you care insanely about, and then use all your resources and power to seek to resolve that!

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Money?

The Peter Thiel idea:

Perhaps “profit” is a pedestrian concept.

Then instead, what we seek instead is not “making money“, but building something insanely great, and then the profits will follow later.

---

Elon Goals

The breath and future vision of Elon Musk is quite phenomenal. For example, driving in LA today, I saw the OG Tesla roadster, convertible electric car, which was essentially a retrofitted Lotus. Even when I was an undergrad at UCLA, I remember seeing one of the original Tesla dealerships.

Dream bigger?

A very simple thought I have is that it is best to set an audaciously great goal, and either miss it, or meet it halfway, rather than setting the bar too low.

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What do you want out of your life?

Not happiness, not even necessarily “joy“. I think all of these are too overly simplistic commoditized notions.

For example, as man, what is it that we see to do achieve or create? I think this should be the critical goal, not happiness joy making money etc.

Everything is a work in progress

A generalized thought I have towards life is that there is no such thing as finality — everything is a continuum, and all about changes evolution and difference.

For example, today after I hit the hot sauna at the gym, and I witnessed my body in the mirror, muscles bulging, and glistening like a god, I thought to myself:

Wow, my physique is perfect.

Now what?

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LA LIFE is the best life!

The streets are mine!

How to Become

Become, Becoming:

What does it mean to become, and why does this matter?

The first thought is you and things are not static. You and things are dynamic, changing, ever evolving, ever rotating etc. I don’t think there’s really an ideal and state or goal. Rather, the end outcome is that your continuously become you, or become something different.

Anti finality

“It has been completed!” (Blaaaah… main protagonist or god Jesus figure then dies)

A weird thing is that a lot of people seek completion, or some sort of final end state and goal. What I personally believe in is that in fact, this isn’t and shouldn’t be the desired and goal. Instead, ever changing, forever evolution, never ending is better.

The end state and goal is not a zen peaceful tranquil life

In the past what I believed the end goal in state was was towards were achieving some sort of truly blissful peace, send, tranquility, emptiness. Now upon much consideration thinking meditation and contemplation and life experiences, I’ve actually discovered this is not the way. And also not the desired end goal.

On the contrary, my thought is perhaps the point of it all in the point of our lives is to seek ever greater challenges, hazards, danger, things to test our courage and will.

Thoughts in progress

What I love about philosophy is that it is a never ending journey. My only desire in life is that I continue having personally interesting thoughts until I die, whenever that is.

OUTLAST.

My thought is that the goal is to last, to endure. Even our best friend Nietzsche said that durability is the number one thing of value for humans!

Some simple tips on being inspired in photography:

1. Think outside: the ultimate privileges to be outside! Optimize your life which is anti-indoors.
2. The simplest Camera set up possible: I still think that the best camera is probably the Ricoh 3X, mine broke I’m fed up with it. Either get that or the new Lumix G9 with the Lumix 14 mm F2.5 lens and an HENRI X ERIC KIM STRAP — HAPTIC PHOTO SUPPLY CO.
3. Discover joy in each and every moment. Always have your camera with you, either your front right pocket, or a simple side front chest satchel. For example, I’m using the OG ERIC KIM portfolio bag, and it works insanely good.
4. Review your photos on your iPad Pro, the smaller 11 inch. Make your whole photography workflow only JPEG, small JPEG, import your photos to your iPad. The USB-C adapter with the SD card adapter, and just use the built-in apple photos to review select share and upload all your photos.

MOTIVATION BY KIM

Become more:

1. Setbacks are a motivator, a turbocharger
2. THERE IS SO MUCH OF THE WORLD TO PHOTOGRAPH!
3. The Philosophy of Optimism
4. What Slows You Down?
5. Meta Editing
6. Move Mass
7. What’s “Cool”?
8. No In-Between
9. Independent Aspirations
10. COMPULSION.
11. *BEYOND* PERFECT.
12. BUY BOOKS WHEN YOU WANT TO BUY GEAR.
13. How to Make More Photos
14. JUST MAKE MORE PHOTOS.
15. MY DESIRE TO CAPTURE IT ALL.
16. VISUAL DETOX.
17. Photography is Our Addiction
18. A BILLION PHOTOS
19. THE MOTIVATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER.
20. CURIOUS.
21. PROVOKE.
22. How to Do More Photography
23. PRACTICE.
24. TURBOCHARGE YOURSELF, TURBOCHARGE OTHERS.
25. LIFE IS ALL UPSIDE, NO DOWNSIDE.
26. PHOTO TURBO THOUGHTS
27. No Such Thing as Good or Bad; Simply Stimulating or Not Stimulating
28. The Best Genre is No Genre
29. The Key to Photographic Motivation
30. Pacifying Media, Motivational Media
31. Our Hunger for New Experiences
32. Mental Motivation
33. ALL ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY.
34. The Photographer as Creator
35. Create *BEYOND* Yourself
36. Let Your Curiosity Drive Your Photography
37. LOVE YOUR PHOTOS.
38. Abstract Monochrome Photography
39. SHOOT WITHOUT THINKING.
40. Just Have Fun With Photography
41. Wu-Wei Effortless Motivation
42. CONSISTENCY x NOVELTY
43. Easily Bored?
44. Face Photography
45. How to Become More Self-Motivated in Your Photography
46. YOUR OWN PHOTOS ARE THE BEST PHOTOS.
47. On Sharing Your Favorite Photos
48. UBERABUNDANCE.
49. Peak Photographic Productivity
50. When to Review Your Photos
51. Serotonin and Photos
52. The Photos You Have Yet Shot are Your Most Important Photos
53. 3 Tips How to Master Photography
54. Do You Like Your Own Photos?
55. The Beauty of Mundane, Everyday Moments
56. Reasons Why to Be Optimistic About the Future
57. A Photography-Full Future
58. The More You Shoot, the Better
59. How Many Photos Should You Shoot Everyday?
60. Why Do We Love Motion?
61. Now is Your Chance to Shoot History in the Making
62. Photo by Photo
63. How and Why Photography Remains So Interesting to Me
64. How to Conquer Your Inner Photographic Critic
65. Thoughts on HDR Photography
66. New Year, New Photos
67. Why Exhibit Your Photos?
68. Photography is Visual Poetry
69. What’s the Purpose of Art?
70. Why Do We Photographers Have Such a Hard Time Staying Inspired and Motivated?
71. On Becoming a More Optimistic Photographer
72. Philosophy of Weather
73. How to Become a More Optimistic Photographer and Human
74. You Are a Creative Photographer
75. JUST SHARE YOUR ARTISTIC PROCESS WITH OTHERS.
76. What Motivates Me to Shoot?
77. How to Maximize Yourself to the Fullest
78. HOW TO MOVE AND MOTIVATE PEOPLE
79. Autotelic Photography
80. The more I go out and photograph the world, the more interesting and beautiful the world becomes
81. Why Photographers Have Such Low Self-Esteem
82. ERIC KIM MOTIVATION
83. Why Am I So Unmotivated?
84. EVERY DAY IS A NEW DAY
85. WHY ARE YOU SO UNMOTIVATED?
86. Movement is Motivation
87. How to Motivate Myself to Make New Photos
88. Never Stop Optimizing
89. How to Help and Motivate Others
90. Feed On Your Own Photos; Let Them Nourish You!
91. Competition is for Suckers
92. A Future Without Travel
93. How Google Can Improve Your Photography
94. DEVELOP YOURSELF.
95. NEVER STOP MOVING!
96. How I Self-Motivate Myself
97. Every Day the Sun is Birthed Anew
98. A Life Without Photography Isn’t a Life Worth Living
99. WIN.
100. 8 Practical Photography Assignments for You
101. Tabula Rasa, Blank Slate, Carte Blanche
102. RELENTLESS
103. LIFE IS THE ULTIMATE RPG
104. HYPER VIGOR
105. FRESH AIR PHOTOS
106. WHO IS GONNA THRIVE IN TODAY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD?
107. ARTISTIC OPTIMISM
108. PASSION, not Discipline
109. Better Bad Photos than No Photos
110. The Empowering Feeling of Failure
111. To Be Human is to Move
112. Enjoy the Process
113. Better Bad Photos than No Photos
114. Why Keep Making New Art and Photos, Indefinitely?
115. Photography Motivation: What if There is Nothing Interesting to Photograph?
116. Move First, Motivation Later
117. Motivation Follows the Action
118. In Praise of Heroes
119. 5 Tips How to Boost Your Creativity
120. How to Have Inspiration to Take Photos in the Suburbs
121. Anything that Motivates You to Move is Good!
122. The Productive Photographer is the Happiest Photographer!
123. Make Today Count!
124. How to Break Through Photographer’s Block
125. The Joyful Photographer
126. The Dancing Photographer
127. The Kaizen Process of Gradual Self-Improvement in Photography
128. It is Your Duty to Make Beautiful Pictures!
129. Making Pictures IS Happiness!
130. NO EXCUSES.
131. The Pomodoro Photography Technique
132. The ABC of Photography
133. Just Shoot It.
134. How to Change the World With Photography
135. How to Find Inspiration in Photography and Life
136. How to Overcome Resistance
137. Create Against the Past
138. How I Motivate Myself to Make Photos
139. Wear Your Camera Like a Necklace or Bracelet
140. Have Your Photos Come to You
141. How to Level Up in Your Photography
142. How Not to Give a Fuck of What Others Think of You
143. How to Overcome Procrastination in Your Photography
144. How to Reinspire Your Photography
145. What is Your Mission in Photography and Life?
146. How to Overcome Photographer’s Block
147. Be a Photographer Now
148. How to Overcome Boredom with Photography
149. Never Stop Growing as a Photographer
150. Why Do You Need “Inspiration” to Shoot?
151. Just Shoot.
152. 5 Things to Do If You’ve Lost Your Passion for Photography
153. How to Have Unshakeable Confidence in Yourself
154. Don’t Give Up On Your Dream
155. Don’t Waste Your Potential
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My first duty is towards my wife and kid. To protect, defend, avenge them!

When you’re making photos, strive to make them as artistic as possible.

Bitcoin photographer, bitcoin artist:

Don’t be scared!

Be prepared to lose it all! Thus the robust mentality and the investing strategy is simple; adopt an aesthetic, spartan lifestyle, in which you are injured against any sort of “losses“. This will give you extreme courage, extreme freedom, extreme thriving!

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I think the best strategy is to allow yourself to be and become a little bit more unethical, less concerned and concerning of external things peoples desires expectations etc.

Overall, I think it is a good idea to have like goals dreams hopes and aspirations etc. I like the idea of having an insanely audacious life, and once you achieve it and hit it, then, perhaps the best strategy is this:

Onto the next one!

Your next epic life goal dream hope aspiration etc?

Some morning thoughts: what is the point in purpose of aesthetics? Why is it important and towards what ends?

What is the purpose or point of beauty?

First thought I have is in regards to beauty, the philosophy of beauty, the significance of beauty etc. On the first hand, I believe that beauty has to do with health. Physiological health, wellness, grandeur.

For example, beautiful women, finding a beautiful wife, getting children with a beautiful woman. I think the significance of beauty, a beautiful woman is the promise that your offspring will be superior, strong, great. I believe to some degree physical and physiological beauty, aesthetic beauty, also beauty in the face has to do with the promise advancement. Your kids will be stronger, more intelligent, taller, stronger, better than you.

Things?

Then, beauty in the context of things. For example, what is the significance of beauty in regards to things, objects, spaces etc?

on the firsthand, I think it has to do with hygiene. Often places which look ugly signal some sort of degeneracy, or poor hygiene. For example, indoor places which are small tight cramp, dark and musty, perhaps signals some sort of mold, fungus, or air circulation, black and natural light etc. Often beautiful spaces signal some sort of hygiene; natural light greater disinfectant from the sun, big windows, floor to ceiling windows, and windows which open which allow and lot airflow is good for our circulation and health, and also brand new spaces, especially interior spaces signal some sort of great hygiene.

Cars?

Another thing in which we Americans or modern go gaga over his cars. He seem to be very very obsessed with cars, the newest car, the newest model, etc. We are addicted to cars and innovation in cars.

However is there some sort of objective measure to beauty in cars? I think there is some.

For example, beauty in the context of ugliness. Difficult to ascertain what a beautiful car is, but very very easy to ascertain what an ugly car is. Ugly car is rusted, yellowing headlights, peeling clear coat, rust, and components which have faded or haven’t aged well. For example my extreme discussed in my families old car; a 1995 Nissan Maxima, six cylinder, black paint, which had 1 trillion headaches and nightmares. Peeling clearcoat made it insanely ugly, and also the V6 engine had so many problems. That car was hell.

Ultimately I think new is beautiful. New cars look beautiful because they are bright and shiny, all the components are new, nothing has faded. For example crystal clear headlights, window and car side molding, etc.

Clothes?

One thing I have observed about clothing is that there is no such thing as beautiful clothes, only beautiful people. For example the people who tend to wear these beautiful clothes also tend to be beautiful people. That means, a beautiful person can wear ugly clothes and still look beautiful. An ugly person, if they wear a beautiful clothes, do not become beautiful. Because there is no such thing as beautiful clothes.

1. Diagonals, hand rails make for great photos, dynamic leading lines etc.
2. Look for numbers, symbols, shadows.
3. When you’re shooting, always check the corners.
4. Shoot from an insanely low angle perspective, photograph your kid or subject against the blank sky.
5. Shoot darker. When in doubt, under expose, and make your photos as dark as humanly possible.
6. Shoot what you love and whom you love!
7. Extreme contrast is best!
8. Look for repetitions, patterns, triangles.
9. I prefer looking at my new photos!
10. Playgrounds are great places to shoot!
11. Place your subject off to the side — golden triangle, golden angle, golden section. Off centered composition is more dynamic!
12. Beauty in the mundane, everyday and ordinary! A child playing with sand, scooping it up with a plastic cup and pouring it out and throwing it around!