Public Horror https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug15_Post.mp3 Imagine two different kinds of public speaking situations. One is horrifying and would give us all nightmares. The other is fun and enjoyable, and everybody would love doing. First is the horrifying scenario. You are up for the job of a lifetime. Massive pay. Massive benefits. […]
Forget The Words
Long Time https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/22Aug13_Post.mp3 Most science is rejected at first. It’s rejected because science is generally created by intellectuals and academics. And they have their own form of “territoriality.” They’ve spent their entire careers carving out their academic and intellectual territory. If some unknown goof comes along with a brand hew idea? […]
Fake Security Blankets
Stop Hiding https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug08_Post.mp3 Once upon a time there was this golden Buddha statue. Way back in the day, in Thailand. But then the Burmese were getting ready to invade. Many of the smaller national treasures were hidden. Except for this golden Buddha. It was too big. So they covered […]
Celery Hunter Love
Slipped In Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug07_Post.mp3 Presuppositions are very powerful. For anything spoken or written, there are linguistic presuppositions. Things you must accept in order to make sense of a sentence. For example, suppose you were selling cars and you wanted to get across the idea that the car is popular. So you […]
Ditch Unattractive Behaviors
Intuitive Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug06_Post.mp3 One way to figure out the best way to behave is to ask, “what would a caveman do?” Many anthropologists believe that every single problem in modern society is down to something called “instinct mismatch.” The instincts that drive most of our behaviors were calibrated a long time ago. […]
Attraction By Elimination
Logic Solution https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug04_Post.mp3 Once upon a time, there was an American mathematician. The U.S. version of Alan Turing during WWII. Alan Turing was the dude who broke the Nazi Enigma Code. This guy, the American dude, did more or less the same thing. Used his math brain to help defeat the […]
The Most Attractive Trait
Unpredictable https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July25_Post.mp3 Chaos theory is an interesting concept. Discovered a few decades ago. Chaos theory is why they can’t predict the weather. A weather system is an interdependent system. Five or so polynomial, inter-dependent variables. Poly who? Like X is NOT a polynomial variable. It is a linear […]
Let Them Discover You
Beautiful Discovery https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July24_Post.mp3 One of the most critical rules of writing an interesting script or story is to show, don’t tell. We humans like to discover things on our own. We don’t like being spoon fed ideas. Stories with well written characters that slowly evolve over time and only reveal JUST ENOUGH […]
Are You Chasing Donut Status?
Everything Costs Something https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July20_Post.mp3 A lot of things in life are inherently unpleasant, but necessary. This is the cost of being a human. Even way back in the days of hunter gatherers, we had to work for a living. If you didn’t kill, you didn’t eat. The better of a killer […]
Destroy Social Anxiety
Enemy #1 https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July_03.mp3 Social Anxiety is incredibly crippling. And very common. But it’s also something few people talk about. And as humans tend to do, we reframe weaknesses into strengths. So what ends up happening is you have a whole bunch of people that suffer from social anxiety. But nobody […]
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