Always Angles https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar14_Post.mp4 Why do they call newspaper articles “stories?” Because objective descriptions of events are pretty boring. And news companies, TV, online, etc., are businesses. Sure in some countries, they are funded by the state. Which makes them propaganda. Pure, blatant propaganda. But so long as you need […]
Leverage Imaginary Power
Fiction Instinct https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar12_Post.mp4 Movies are fantastic. Books are fantastic. Stories are fantastic. Ever since the dawn of time, we’ve been telling each other stories. This clearly is a instinct. Whenever you can find something that exists in all cultures now, and has existed in all cultures before, chances are it’s […]
Leverage Your Poor Memory
Um… What? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar11_Post.mp4 Human memory is very faulty. If a crime allegedly happens, and all they have are eyewitnesses, they won’t prosecute. It’s very difficult to prosecute something ONLY because somebody said they saw him do this. Sure, there are exceptions, but these are the exceptions that prove the rule. Imagine […]
Hat Beliefs
Lucky Boy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar10_Post.mp4 There’s a famous story about the farmer and his three sons. One son finds a horse. His neighbors say he’s lucky. The farmer says maybe. Then his son breaks his leg while trying to tame the horse. The neighbors say he’s unlucky. The farmer says maybe. […]
Walk Up Rocks
Rock Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar09_Post.mp4 Once a I went rock climbing with a friend. A long time ago. And climbs are rated kind of like Earthquakes. On a log scale. So a 6.0 climb is twice as hard as a 5.0 climb. And at the time, I felt comfortable on a 5.5 […]
Cookies Kids And Cubes
Explain Yourself https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar08_Post.mp4 I heard an interesting story once. A guy was teaching a seminar. And asked how many sides does a cube have. One guy raised his hand. “Two,” he said. “Explain yourself,” said the instructor. “Inside and outside” he replied “Fantastic. Anybody else?” Said the instructor. […]
Black Swan Love
Movie Meaning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar07_Post.mp4 The movie Black Swan was one of those movies that is open to interpretation. My own take was it was kind of a metaphorical “coming of age movie.” The protagonist was leaving behind the easy life of childhood, and embracing the harsh world of adulthood. One of my pieces […]
Social Gold Digger
Eating Tigers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar06_Post.mp4 One interesting theory from evolutionary psychology is the idea of assuming agency. What the heck does this mean? Imagine two kinds of cave people. One assumed agency, one didn’t. So they both see a tiger. The one that doesn’t assume agency within the tiger sees it as […]
Write Your Story
Truth Or Fiction https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar05_Post.mp4 Imaginary things can cause real responses. This is the whole reason we have stories. Or a storytelling instinct. Kids growing up around campfire. Hearing stories about ancient heroes who killed monsters. The Greeks came up with the idea of Catharsis way back in the day. […]
Battle Of The Sexes
Beautiful Mind https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar04_Post.mp4 Game theory is an interesting field of mathematics. The most famous game theory guy is John Nash. The guy Russell Crowe played in the movie, “A Beautiful Mind.” Nash is famous for something called the “Nash Equilibrium.” Basically it means that both players make thier choice and neither […]
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