ERIC KIM

ERIC KIM

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ERIC KIM episodes

  • How to Transcend Your Sense of Self

    The gist:

    Don't concern or worry too much about your own personal needs. Meet the bare minimum for your basic human needs, and devote the rest of your intellectual and creative metabolic energy towards greater ends!

    https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/09/19/how-to-transcend-your-sense-of-self/

    6 min
  • In Praise of Play

    In life if you approached it like it were all fun and games ... wouldn't you be happier, more productive, more creative and more passionate about living? https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/09/16/in-praise-of-play/

    9 min
  • In Praise of Playing with Kids: Play Time with Zania and Anave - Park and Home Pillow Fort

    In Praise of Playing with Kids

    For the most part, I FAAAR prefer interacting and playing with kids than adults. Why? We have soooo much more to learn from children:

    1. Their phenomenal sense of creativity, disregard for rules and ‘social tact’. They speak what is *really* on their mind.
    2. I wonder if children (if we observe their thought patterns and behaviors, etc) are the more *true* form of human being. The modern adult as simply a castrated, domesticated (herd) animal. Children are like wild beasts; is this our primal nature?
      3. 7 min
    3. The Whitewashing of Society

      First of all I don’t believe in “white” people. This makes no sense. I’m actually more pale and more “white” in skin tone than many Caucasian people (the more accurate term for a “white” person) as a Korean.

      So when I talk about “white washing”, what do I mean? I mean it is like applying bleach to anything which is saucy, interesting, enjoysome and “racy” and “inappropriate” in life to make it acceptable and “wholesome” to essentially placate over-protective parents, paternalistic members of the elite intelligentsia, and also to placate advertisers.

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      16 min
    4. Change.

      Why is change so scary and difficult? Why are we so reticent to change? My thoughts: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2020/09/15/change-2/

      To change things or to change ourselves means:

      I must take some sort of real life risk and have some sort of ‘skin in the game’ in regards to my personal actions in embodied reality.

      It is safer to complain. Talk is cheap. Action is expensive. Expensive meaning:

      If you fuck up in real life, there are real consequences.

      However when you just complain, there is really no downside. Even when you complain, nobody will punish you for complaining. Actually it seems that 99% of social circles are just complaining parties. People come together, and love to complain about x, y, z. This is why I hate talking politics; it is all about complaining, no changing.

      12 min
    6. What’s Overrated, What’s Underrated?

      A thought the other day:

      What’s underrated in life, and what’s overrated in life?

      My thoughts:

      1. Sleep is underrated. Productivity is overrated.
      2. Cars are overrated. Walking is underrated.
      3. Shooting film is overrated. Shooting digital is underrated.
      4. Bench press is overrated. Deadlift is underrated.
      5. Leica is overrated. Ricoh is underrated.
      6. Tesla is overrated. Toyota is underrated.
      7. iPhone is overrated. iPad is underrated.
      8. Sunlight is underrated. Indoors is overrated.
      9. Email is overrated. Phone calls (audio only) are underrated.
      10. Merino wool clothing is underrated. Cotton is overrated.
      11. Sneakers are overrated. Barefoot is underrated.
      12. Reps are overrated. One rep max is underrated.

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        13 min

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      Podcast on photography, philosophy, and entrepreneurship.