Interesting idea, the general idea is that our traits which are considered hateful, our in fact, our greatest virtues.
For example, I speak out loud, I don’t censor myself, I often make other people feel uncomfortable. Yet this is precisely the source of my innovation and entrepreneurial spirit .
Also this is where I think that the energies of children should simply be guided and directed, rather than stunted.
For example, let us say that your kid is very rambunctious and likes to throw stuff. Rather than forcing your kid not to throw things, rather think that it is better to channel that energy and power into something fun, like having him join the local (American) football league or whatever.
Or say that your kid runs around a lot, and likes to be active. Have them join gymnastics or something?
Also the same thing with adults, even the ancient Romans knew, everybody is born with different talents. And that rather than trying to change someone’s character, the wiser approach is figuring out how to best harness their own god-given skills. 
I always say the right thing at the wrong time
 for example, there should be certain things which should only be brought up at a certain time. Timing is critical.
For example, good idea to drink coffee first thing in the morning, bad idea to drink coffee at midnight.
We also, good idea to be active and run around in the day, maybe not a good idea at night.
The best time to watch Netflix is first thing in the morning
Funny I got from one of Cindy’s friends, is that she says that for her the best time to watch Netflix’s first thing in the morning because it gets her stimulated and wakes her up!
This is hilarious and a genius idea because the truth is, this might be the right strategy. Most people watch it late at night, which keeps you up because you’re going to be thinking about solving the plot while you sleep which is not good. Rather, if you watch media first thing in the morning, maybe it is actually a better stimulus and stimulant to action.
Also a funny thought, to those who like to watch erotic material, maybe rather than watching it before you sleep, also, you could do a funny experiment in which you watch it first thing in the morning?
Don’t castrate, channel
Let us say that you are hormonal, and have high testosterone. Yet this leads you to doing aggressive behavior in a bad way.
Rather than chop off your balls, maybe it’s better that you could simply get a gym membership, and start ERIC KIM demigod weightlifting, and strive to lift 1000 pounds? And beyond?
The crazier the more genius
“Name one genius that ain’t crazy!” – Kanye West
“In every single genius there is a hint of madness” – Aristotle 
Craziness and genius are sisters and brothers. Assuming that you sleep very well like each 12 hours a night, you don’t take drugs or drink alcohol, you exercise every day, you smile and wave and have friendly conversation with everybody you see on the streets, you spend a lot of time outside walking around, in nature and in the city etc., certainly you will not be crazy by traditional standards.
Then my thought is if you start to say certain words which are heretical, maybe the truth is, you’re right!
Stay crazy, stay foolish
As long as it doesn’t cause you to lose an arm or die prematurely, maybe rather than cutting risks from our life, we should strive instead to augment them. For example, one of my new favorite quotes from Peter Thiel, which has been quoted many times by Michael Saylor is that “Courage is in the shorter supply than genius”.
I agree. You can meet like at least 100,000 smart people or geniuses from the beer area. Yeah most of them like balls. Balls plus genius is what counts, no balls no conviction no appetite for risktaking means lame improvement to stuff.
For example, SpaceX and the thing that catches rockets. Only a crazy Elon Musk could have come up with the idea that actually works, not some standard boring engineer.
Or, the musical and sonic genius of a Kanye West would have never been treated by an AI.
Even Jaron Lanier,  wisely said that the genius of the Steve Jobs would never have been created by artificial intelligence. This is true.
AI cannot contradict itself 
For example for myself, I change my opinion all the time. For example one day, I think that Tesla sucks, and then the next day I see a brand new Tesla model Y from behind, and I think it is perfect.
Or another interesting thought, now with the new Donald Trump policies, I might be the only one who thinks that fiat currency is a good idea!
For example the office which controls the currency, they themselves called the US dollar fiat currency. then, ironically enough, calling a speed a spade, it actually makes me realize or think or change my opinion that if you have the agency which regulates the currency calling the US dollar a faith-based currency, this actually gives me more faith in the dollar not less? 
Even things which really changed my opinion is that like on most cases I’m super approved Donald Trump or at least his administration on economic affairs, because before the election he became super pro bitcoin! When money is on the line, money talks and changes opinions.
As a consequence of Trump becoming elected, the price of my bitcoin and also my strategy holdings have like multiplied insanely high, which is good because I’m like dumb rich, essentially like printing money out of my butt now.
Things then become interesting because they become almost seemingly contradictory in nature.
Even myself now, I still consider myself a diehard liberal woke democrat on the far left, much more on the progressive side, or the liberal side, maybe you could call me a “lib-tard”. Yet I am a pro Donald Trump, yet I will never become Republican.
In fact am I the only one who invented this really really funny phrase, “Republi-can’t”?
I think politically speaking, you could only really start to have fun when you don’t pledge allegiance to any other side, and rather you just judge inform your own independent opinions, even if you’re right or wrong.
In fact, come on guys… We are philosophers. We know that this is all a stupid show, and this is all fake. All news is fake even the real ones.
A simple prescription I have for people who are like scared shitless is first, whenever Donald Trump says anything, don’t read the headlines actually find the raw interview footage file video MP4 video file, watch it yourself unedited, the entire hour or two, and then form your opinion!
Also, delete social media Facebook Instagram TikTok Twitter X YouTube whatever. A new pro hack I have at least to maintain some of your focus is get supergrok, which is the $30 a month Elon Musk xAI chatbot, and whenever you curse about something, run a deep search, infiltrate it this way rather than going to social media.
Also, I’m certainly think that also ChatGPT is the new click page. Why? Now whenever I want to use chat, and I open up the app, there’s all these effing click baby suggested prompts, which distract me.
Even worse when you’re trying to do a web search through ChatGPT, it will show up all these stupid distracting news headlines? Like JD Vance accidentally drops trophy?
All signal is also noise
I have a simple suggestion, if you need the news, try not to follow more than 1, 2 or three people. That should be the cap.
For example for myself, only person I religiously follow is Michael Saylor at @saylor —
Another new pro tip work around I figured it out, whenever you login into Twitter it is so distracting. You could go to rss.app and search somebody’s Twitter handle, like @saylor and just follow that one person alone.
I think like 100% of the true signal that I get is from Michael Saylor, everyone else is just baiting for clicks and impressions.
Even I try my best not to check bitcoin prices or news because once again, it’s like a heartbeat, the sign of a healthy organism is having a regular heartbeat that goes up and down. Therefore, I think of bitcoin prices like a human heartbeat; if you flatline you’re dead. 
Investing
So the floodgates have now opened that the government says yes, banks canal do anything bitcoin or crypto related. I think within this year or the next year, you’ll be able to buy bitcoin with JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo Fidelity whatever.
Recently I put a large sum of money into MSTU, which is 2X levered long MSTR, which is itself is 2x levered long bitcoin.
This then becomes a good strategy because let us say that bitcoin price goes up 5% in a day, then MSTR will go up 10%, and then, MSTU will go up 20%!
You then start to get really insanely explosive gains, you could easily earn $100,000 in just a single day, without doing anything.
And actually if you think about it, stuff like MSTR and MSTU are actually much more accretive than bitcoin, because the first rule of bitcoin club you never sell your bitcoin. Fun work around you could do is like if you have Coinbase, you could now pledge up to a large number of your bitcoins, and get up to like $1 million of cash, which you could then invest into MSTR and or MSTU.
My simple thought is if you have a retirement account or a roth ira, and you plan on not pulling it out until you’re 65, just put it into mstr, set it and forget it.
if you plan on trying to make money in the short run, MSTU is the obvious bet, as once again, it out performs bitcoin by at least 4X, and an important thing with what creation is the velocity and in the speed of how you get, how quickly.
For example, nobody would care to be a trillionaire at the age of 99, we would rather be worth $200 million in five years. 
Therefore, at least for myself, I would rather take the quicker (smaller) gain, rather than the longer, higher gain.
No more Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, was 19th century bitcoin. Everything he did, back in the day was genius because that is all they had.
If you put Henry Ford into today’s world, but gave him the financial tools of the 19th century certainly the outcome would be different than if you handed the keys to somebody with the year 2025 tools.
Even a random sidenote, Cambodia, seems to be thriving because everyone here uses telegram. It’s very beneficial to business, personal communication, and it seems to be much more intelligent and robust than other countries which first adopted Facebook messenger or WhatsApp.
In fact, my personal thought is the future of Cambodia will be very bright because they use the US dollar, they use telegram, and, everyone speaks English. It is a recipe for success.
now what?
As a simple closing thought, once again, maybe you just have to rebrand your vices into virtues. And just think the simple thought:
What if in fact, all of your sins and vices were simply virtues,,, without a good PR press release team?
ERIC
Go opposite.
A fun innovative thought, maybe in fact the best way to innovate is to go opposite.
For example, if everyone is wearing black, start wearing white!
If everyone is driving a Tesla, drive a Toyota instead.
If everyone is wearing shorts, wear long pants. If everyone is wearing tank tops, wear a long sleeve.
This is a big one for myself, if everyone is using headphones and AirPods, don’t.
Maybe also if everyone’s using an iPhone, just get a Google pixel or an android instead?
If everyone is antisocial, be friendly!
If everyone runs, walk instead.
Everyone saying porn is bad for you, do the opposite and start watching porn?
Haha this is so funny the list goes on forever! 
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