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 […]
Ignore False Stories
Nobody Knows Why https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov01_Post.mp3 According To Dr. Cialdini, in his book, “Influence: Science and Practice,” whenever we choose to do something, it’s never a conscious decision. He’s more interested in marketing than psychology. Or for him, psychology is a means to the end of more effective marketing. Anyhow, this is the sequence […]
Master Of Puppets
Self Awareness? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct31_Post.mp3 Here is a very interesting, and very ancient question. Of all the stuff humans have accomplished over the past few thousand years, is self awareness necessary? This is an ancient philosophical question going as far back as Plato. Another way to put it. Suppose you could build a […]
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 […]
Never Do Anything Wrong Again
Kids And Cheats https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr18_Post.mp4 When I was a kid, video arcades were popular. Put in a quarter, and play as long as you could. Many games had cheats. Of course, this was long before the Internet, so to get a cheat you had to know somebody. Otherwise, you had to learn […]
Make Them Crave You
Two Sides To Sales https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr15_Post.mp4 There are two ways to sell things to people. One is to come up with a compelling pitch. This is the way TV characters sell. Because TV characters are fictional, they can be VERY mesmerizing, charismatic, etc. But in real life, memorized pitches are not nearly […]
Be The One They Want
Feeling People Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr14_Post.mp4 What’s the purpose of job interviews? First you send in your application, then you get a call for an interview. If it’s a decent job, you’ll have a couple of interviews. So do so many people need to speak with you? Clearly you are qualified, you have […]
The Sweet Baby Love Pattern
Nurture vs. Nature https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr13_Post.mp4 The nurture vs. nature debate has been around for a while. Way back in the day, long before science, they had the idea that “Jesus” was already in our brain. Some philosopher guy from the middle ages, where “Jesus = science” believed that if you raised a baby in […]
Leave Your Pavlovian Bell At Home
Nurture And Nature https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12_Post.mp4 There are two general schools of thought about what makes us who we are as individuals. There’s the blank slate side of the spectrum. That our minds are completely programmable. That with the right training, we can be “programmed” to do pretty much anything our “programmers” want us […]
Sex Magic Commands
Oven Commercial I saw this really cool infomercial the other day for this oven thing. I don’t even remember what kind oven it was, but this guy doing the demonstration was extremely skilled in covert hypnosis. This guy was really good at being able to use embedded commands so I decided I’d better […]