Metaphors Are Descriptions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27_Post.mp4 There’s a common metaphor about the relationship between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. And like many metaphors, it sort of sounds good, but it’s not very helpful. Metaphors, are by their nature, less complex than the thing they are describing. And metaphors ARE descriptions. Not […]
Play The Most Ancient Game
Maslow’s Mistake https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar26_Post.mp4 What does it mean to be self-actualized? This is the top of Maslow’s hierarchy. Maslow’s hierarchy is something that is kind of misunderstood. It’s one of those things that’s kind of repeated so much it’s believed to be an iron clad law of human nature. In reality, the […]
The Money Life Game
One Causes The Other https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar25_Post.mp4 One old law from Economics is called “Say’s Law,” from a guy named Say. Basically, it says that production creates its own demand. This is very DIFFERENT from the idea of building a better mousetrap and the world beating a path to your door. Say’s law is […]
Destroy Imposter Syndrome
Self Sabotage Origins https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar24_Post.mp4 Self sabotage is a common problem. And often it happens before we do anything. It’s commonly described when somebody is playing out of their league. A common TV or movie trope is the guy or gal who is dating somebody THEY think is way out of their league. […]
Peel Back Layers of Deception
Subliminal Popcorn https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar23_Post_1.mp4 There was a famous experiment done back in the fifties. Where they blasted subliminal messages to a movie audience. And, as the mythology goes, they sold more coke and popcorn to people because of these subliminal messages. If you are a big fan of conspiracy theories, the idea of […]
Discover Inner Money Game
Negative Cognitive Dissonance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar22_Post.mp4 Most people know the difference between inner game outer game. Some believe inner game isn’t such a big deal. In fact plenty of people hate the idea completely. So much that they don’t even consider it worthy enough to even discuss. This, I believe, is our cognitive […]
Plant The Seeds Of Love
What Do They Really Mean? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar21_Loop.mp4 There are a lot of useful metaphors that have been overused. Not necessarily overused, but used too often without really understanding them. Once I was at Griffith Park observatory in Los Angeles. A buddy of mine and I had just finished watching a Pink Floyd laser […]
The Most Beautiful Sales Pitch
TV Charisma https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar20_Post.mp4 Halt and Catch Fire is a pretty good TV show. It’s a four season show that covers the rise of the PC and the Internet. It’s a fictionalized version, but it’s pretty accurate. The competition for the first PC, then the first couple search engines, then the first browsers. […]
Drop Ambition Breadcrumbs
Five Years? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19_Post.mp4 A common question you get in interviews is: Where do you see yourself in five years? I never really liked that question. One, because I never had a five year plan that included the company I was applying for. But mainly because my five year plans are nobody’s […]
The Ambiguity Attraction Pattern
Own Your Answer https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar18_Post.mp4 We humans love ambiguity. We love the feeling that we can decide what things mean. We also love the feeling of figuring things out. Not necessarily to get an objectively “correct” answer. But to come up with answer we feel is the right answer, for us. […]
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