ERIC KIM

Seek to Gain Muscle Mass and Lower Bodyfat. Over-Fat vs Over-Weight.

Be careful about low-key racists: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/03/14/low-key-racism/

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'Digital sharecropping' is probably a more fair assessment than 'digital slavery', but the sentiment is pretty much the same. If you find your self-esteem and self-ego tied up with numbers on social media (likes, followers, views, etc) -- you're metaphorically enslaved to social media, and their whims.

Social media is a metaphorical matrix. If we are being subtly programmed to act, think, and feel a certain way -- we are becoming enslaved.

Consider -- if you ever feel social media 'nudging' you to think, feel, and behave a certain way, this is bad.

If your ultimate goal is apex artistic productivity, or to become the most epic human-being, you must delete Instagram, stop using Reddit, stop using Facebook, and instead -- become a producer and creator (instead of a passive consumer of social media content).

Striving for perfection is paralyzing. Better to produce and make a lot (quantity) rather than aim for 'quality'.

More: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/02/26/quantity-over-quality-2/

I'm so motivated because I'm in hyper-health, physiologically thriving, through powerlifting and sleeping a lot, through intermittent fasting, and eating lots of meat.

Also, the child-like curiosity in creating new things!

MORE: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/02/26/why-im-so-motivated/

Creativity isn't this superpower you're born with (or not). Creativity is having the DESIRE or the motivation to CREATE and make stuff!

Also, creativity is something which can be trained (like our muscles)!

Learn more: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/02/26/a-new-definition-of-creativity-propensity-or-desire-to-create/

To conquer photography, we must kill all prior notions of photography, and declare to ourselves:

I shall become the most epic photographer of all-time, and build up all my creative/visual faculties to the maximum!

Learn more: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/02/26/how-to-conquer-photography/

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Consider-- we as photographers are both image-makers and idea-makers. This is huge, because it means we have the power to shape, interpret, and mould reality to our own liking.

Learn more: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/02/26/photographers-shall-inherit-the-earth/

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My thought:

To maximize your impact and change in the world, embrace MAXIMUM SELFISHNESS, and barbell 'maximum altruism' on the other end.

Why prioritize yourself?

My thought is this:

Often when we spend our entire lives devoting it to others (instead of focusing on our own self-development), we start to build hidden resentment towards others.

Why are we not allowed to posit ourselves as an end unto ourselves?

Well -- Christian/Utilitarian morality says:

And also in almost all cultures in the world, the notion of being 'selfish' is synonymous with 'evil'.

Why is this? Well-- in the past (when there was a limited pie, zero-sum society), any benefit you gave yourself was a HIDDEN DOWNSIDE to others. For example if I have a pizza with 12 slices and I eat 6 slices, that means 6 fewer slices for my community or family. But in today's world with infinite technology and effectively infinite/free food, these old-school notions of 'selfish' being 'evil' is not a good one.

Learn more: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/02/25/prioritize-your-own-needs-desires-and-wants-over-others/