Ancient Philosophy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan27_Post.mp3 Stoicism has been around for a long time. Since at least 300 BC. Invented by a guy named Zeno of Citium. Plenty of Romans were also stoics. Notably, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome. He’s the guy that came up with the phrase, “The Obstacle Is The Way.” What does this mean? Every […]
Demon Fear Killer
Relaxing Night https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/23Jan21_Post.mp3 Once a friend of mine and I were hanging out at his house. This was back in high school. His parents were gone, and we’d gotten some beers. So we decided to relax, watch a few videos and chill. But then we decided to go exploring. In […]
Reciprocal Love
Heaven Or Hell? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan08_Post.mp3 Here is an interesting metaphor about heaven and hell. In hell, everybody is sitting in a huge, round room. They’ve all got their backs up against the wall. In the center is a huge pot of delicious smelling food. They have spoons that are long enough to […]
Make Beautiful Music
Make Them Sing https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov21_Post.mp3 When I was a kid, on Thanksgiving, my parents would break out the fine China. Which was no big deal to me. I mean, a plate is a plate, right? But the wine goblets were pretty cool. Made out of crystal. And if you would wet […]
Become Approachable
Dangerous Ideas https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov20_Post.mp3 Humans don’t like uncertainty. In fact, historians have said that the history of humans is a history of scared and lazy people doing everything we can to make things safer and easier. Chasing after a wooly mammoth is scary and dangerous, filled with uncertainty. Growing a bunch of corn […]
Burrito Love Pattern
Difficult Lives https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov14_Post.mp3 Many people struggle with life. Making money, making friends, creating potential romantic connections. One way to look at this is as the human condition. We all want the same stuff. Food, money, social connections, companionships, sex, love. But getting these is far from easy. Often we […]
They’ll Worship You
Rebel Kids https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov07_Post.mp3 Once, way back in high school, my friend and I decided to rebel. To stand up and get ready to leave algebra class BEFORE the bell rang. This was a class where the teacher was pretty lazy. He’d teach for the first half, and then let us “self study” […]
Hack Their Brains
Easy Brains https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov05_Post.mp3 There are plenty of hacks in human language and in human thinking. Noam Chomsky, the inventor of “Transformational Grammar” demonstrated that a sentence can both be grammatically correct and utterly meaningless. The example: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. There are plenty of ways to do both. Hack […]
Hack Their Brain
Emotional People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct30_Post.mp3 Humans are not Vulcans. We are not angels, we are not robots. We are emotionally driven creatures. Self aware, talking primates. And a long, long time ago, Mother Nature had to make a decision. We could either have accurate and slow brains. Or inaccurate and fast […]
Express The Real You
Secret Penguin https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct29_Post.mp3 I recently read a quote from Colin Farrell about playing the Penguin in the latest Batman movie. He said he was worried at first. That all the makeup would be too constricting. But he said it was the opposite. That it was very, very freeing. Because it […]
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