CONQUER YOURSELF: ERIC KIM INTRODUCTION TO STOICISM IN PERSON WORKSHOP (November 11, 2026)
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CAPITAL AS JET FUEL
So this is kind of an interesting idea that I have at the top of the morning: the idea of capital as jet fuel, simply, as it means to get to your …
The color, the look of supreme joy?
Insane fucking gratitude
Capital as jet fuel?
So this is kind of an interesting idea that I have at the top of the morning: the idea of capital as jet fuel, simply, as it means to get to your …
MONSTER EGO.
Don’t desire to go back to the way things used to be. Prefer the present and now Awww yeah fuck it !!! I love it!!!
Yes — Ray Dalio Really Did Go Broke at About Age 33
And the details are unusually instructive. One important distinction first: “went broke” does not appear to mean Ray Dalio filed for formal personal bankruptcy. Dalio uses the phrase to describe being financially …
Is Suffering Loss a Virtue—and Should It Be Eminently Desired?
Executive summary The proposition that suffering and loss might themselves be virtues and “eminently desirable” becomes much less plausible once its components are distinguished. In standard virtue ethics, a virtue is a …
The Joy of Social Society: How Social Connection, Shared Identity, Ritual, and Institutions Produce Human Flourishing
Executive summary “The joy of social society” is best treated not as an established scientific term, but as an integrative construct: the positive affect, belonging, meaning, trust, vitality, and life evaluation that …
Morita Therapy: The Japanese Art of Accepting Nature
You may be thinking of Morita Therapy, a distinctly Japanese school of psychotherapy created by psychiatrist Shōma Morita (1874–1938) in the early 20th century. Nature is important to it, but it is …
Psychology IS physiology
Autotelic thinking What to concern myself with? Think deeper Master your capital , or is your capital your master? Anchoring fallacy Maybe perpetual dissatisfaction is in fact a good thing? I’m too …
Courage, bravery, overcoming adversity
The Spartan way . Conquer yourself
Metabolism, creative metabolism?
The joy of social society
Start from the beginning 
What if suffering loss were actually… A virtue and eminently desirable?
Tokyo Thoughts
Japanese innovations: A place of boundless creativity So Japan is kind of a magical place, especially after visiting the studio Ghibli museum the other day with the family. It’s kind of been …
sell the dream
a new reason or direction for living?
what to concentrate on?
The real goal: profit maximization, not ideology maximization?
*Trust* your fate!
I feel my power and strength rising again!!!
Reboot, refresh
Maybe death IS good, if it allows for re-birth of new and superior life
The Will to Freedom
As long as you have enough wealth to be independent, you’re wealthy. That’s it. The point of money isn’t to stare at the number. The point of money is to buy independence. …
The Will to Consume and Subsume Everything: An Interdisciplinary Analysis
Executive summary “The will to consume and subsume everything” is not an established technical term or unified theory in philosophy or the social sciences. The closest explicit scholarly formulation I found is …
The will to consume and subsume everything is the fundamental expansive drive of life, power, and capital: appropriation that turns the foreign into the self, resistance into growth, and the outside into interiorized fuel. It is not mere hunger or greed. It is the active force that seeks what resists it in order to overcome, digest, and enlarge itself.
Nietzschean Core: Incorporation as Will to Power Nietzsche reframes Schopenhauer’s blind, suffering “will to life” as Wille zur Macht. Life is not primarily self-preservation (a secondary, defensive result) but the discharge and …
TOKYO
SHIBUYA CROSSING
The will to consume and subsume everything?
The photographer –> digests all his life experiences into his photos?
Phnom Penh —> Tokyo
The purpose of life isn’t ease, happiness, joy, and relaxing, and tranquility, but rather… Having some interesting monster of a goal and target, and the joy of overcoming obstacles to reach new Summits?
The purpose of life is overcoming? Overcoming gravity, circumstances, challenges, and obstacles?  Interesting challenges, un interesting challenges?  The thinking, man, the walking man? It does seem that with novel environments, …