Vampire Bats Vampire bats have a highly regulated collection of social instincts. One of them is the capability of doing each other favors, and remembering who has done favors for whom. They’ll go hunting, some will come back with blood, some won’t. The ones that don’t get any blood will borrow from […]
Benefits of Delayed Gratification
Hit The Floor In the past decade or so, HIIT, or high intensity interval training has become much more mainstream. There are a lot of academic studies showing the benefits of high intensity exercises, not only for cardiovascular health, but to potentially be a defense against Alzheimer’s. A great way to do HIIT […]
The Boy Plunger
Dance Your Way To Riches There was this famous dancer back in the 50s. He traveled around the world. He would dance in various cities around the world and he would receive and send telegraphs from and to his broker. He would look at the various data from the stocks that he was watching […]
Unthinkable Thoughts – Unspeakable Things
Lenny Bruce Lenny Bruce was a very famous comedian way back in the day. He was famous for being somebody that pushed the limits of what you are allowed to say in public. In fact he was famous for getting arrested for saying and doing things that you were allowed to say and do in […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Time Travel Pill
Misspent Youth When I was very young, in junior high school, I did a lot of exercise and physical conditioning. When I was in junior high school I got a weight set and so I started lifting weights in the garage and I started to jog after school and on the weekends. I even ran […]
Old Vs. New Learning Styles
Junior High School When I shifted from elementary school to junior high school it was a particularly chaotic time, maybe a little bit traumatic from an emotional standpoint. In elementary school, I could walk to school. It was about two minutes. I walked to school with my friends. I knew a bunch of people […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
Past Live Regressions Metaphors
Necktie Change There’s a guy that I work with that recently had a kid and it’s his first kid and you can see the absolute dramatic change before and after he’s had this kid. If you have children yourself you know that nothing will change your outlook on life like having a child. From […]
Super Brain Theory
Kick The Can When I was a kid me and a bunch of other kids on my block would play a lot of kid games. We played scavenger hunt a couple of times. Somebody would come up with a list of regular household items and then we would break into teams and see who could […]
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