Train Wreck Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov26_Post.mp4 Why is dating and relationships such a dumpster fire? There are plenty of reasons. But one very difficult hurdle is that it’s not anybody’s fault. It’s common to want something relationship wise. Sex, romantic, etc. But it’s hard to get. And the common response is […]
Think Like A Caveman
Daily Struggle https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct01_Post.mp4 Consider a bunch of cavemen a hundred thousand years ago. This might not be easy, since we don’t live in the caveman days. A lot of people like to pretend we AREN’T still cave people. Our instincts have not changed much over the past couple hundred thousand years. […]
Twin Weapons Of Love
Love Metaphors https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug28_Post.mp4 We use metaphors much more than we realize. Even when we talk about science we use metaphors. If you wanted to read something written in “pure” science, it would be REALLY boring. So any kind of science that makes it to the mainstream has been put through a kind […]
Master The Magic Triangle
Circular Lines https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug23_Post.mp4 A lot of cool ideas are discovered independently. Like the Pythagorean formula. Most kids are taught this in junior high school. The idea (A^2 + B^2 = C^2) is pretty simple. You’ve got a right triangle. One side, another side, and the hypotenuse. Like you’ve got […]
Eject Fakeness and Fear
Not Funny https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug17_Post.mp4 I took an improv class once. I had not idea what it was, it was recommended to me. I thought it was going to be about comedy. But it was about improv in the context of any kind of stage acting. Plays are based on memorized lines. […]
Real Time Skills
Unfair Planet https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug12_Post.mp4 The Pareto distribution is an interesting concept. It says that 20% of any system does 80% of the work. For example, if you took all the athletes in any professional sport, 20% of the players score 80% of the points. This would easiest to see in something like basketball, […]
Become A Linguistic Experimenter
Magic Words https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug07_Post.mp4 The power of conversational hypnosis is profound. Far beyond how most people think. Invented by a doctor to help people. He didn’t invent it in a vacuum. He modified the ancient art of storytelling. We listen to stories and are motivated. With mass media storytelling, the […]
The Deserving Paradox
Lazy Monkey People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug06_Post.mp4 Humans are basically lazy. That’s a good thing. All animals have evolved a max ROI instinct. To spend as little effort as possible, to get as much return as possible. Monkeys climb the shortest trees to get the fattest bananas. Birds of prey get the fattest […]
Dude, WHAT?!
Come Again? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug02_Post.mp4 Once I was talking to a friend of mine. This guy was Japanese, but pretty fluent in English. Still, there were some issues with pronunciation. He lived in Japan, but had spent time in the UK as an exchange student. We were talking about various types of fast […]
Are You Dragging Armor?
Self Help Flim Flam https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July23_Post.mp4 They say the wake doesn’t drive the boat. This is a nice metaphor. Meaning the stuff you leave behind doesn’t impact the future. Or it least it shouldn’t. But like many self-help ideas, this is a description. A description of an ideal case. Metaphors […]
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