Imaginary Rope https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug03_Post.mp4 You’ve probably heard the story of the elephant. The one where they tied up an elephant when he was a kid. And by the time he was a big elephant, his trainers didn’t need the rope any more. He’d been conditioned that going too far out would restrict him. […]
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 […]
The Three Parts Of You
All Aboard https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July27_Post.mp4 Plenty of movies have very specific archetypes. There are twelve basic archetypes you’ll find in most movies, books, stories, legends. But there are also common collections of groups. The various Seven Samurai, from the famous movie, are essentially replicated in the first Star Wars. Luke, Obi Won, Han […]
Escape Your False Cage
All Up To You https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July24_Post.mp4 The world is a fantastic place. No matter what time you live in, there is opportunities for massive wealth. Or massive poverty. This metaphor has been expressed in plenty of different ways. The famous poem about two guys in prison, looking out of the window. […]
Useless Truisms Vs Strategies
Totally Dude https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July21_Post.mp4 There are a lot of cool “truisms” that sound pretty cool. But what’s often missing is a usable strategy. On a more meta scale, you’ll find this everywhere. Technically, it’s when we humans mistake a “description” for a cause. This is kind of hard to wrap your mind […]
Do You Have Broken Bones?
Bone Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July19_Post.mp4 Imagine you were riding your bicycle down the street. A pretty busy street. And some idiot was checking their facebook and crashed into you. They ran over both your legs. They didn’t stop. Both your legs had compound fractures. Bones sticking out. Your first response […]
Rapport Based Hypnotic Rabbit Holes
Buy Now https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July13_Post.mp4 The best description of an effective sales letter is a slippery slope. The headline makes you want to read the sub headline. The sub headline makes you want to read the first sentence. Each sentence makes you want to read the next. When you read the headline, you […]
You Are The River
Numbers Are Huge https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July11_Post.mp4 Once I had this chemistry professor. First day of class he was trying to impress upon us the enormity of the numbers involved in chemistry. Most of us can’t fathom anything beyond a couple dozen. There’s all these infographics about how big different quantities of money are. […]
Baseball vs. Football Lifestyle
Pass The Chips https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July10_Post.mp4 Humans are pretty lazy animals. Which, paradoxically, is our best trait. Or one of our best traits. A long, long time ago, we split based on gender. Men hunted, and got protein and fat. Women gathered, and got roots, nuts, etc. This made is different […]
What Signals Are You Sending?
Humans vs. Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July07_Post.mp4 Why do people have job interviews? Particularly for highly technical jobs. Let’s assume we are visiting aliens to earth and we need to report on human behavior. We are highly advanced species, kind of like Vulcans. From a pure logical frame of mind, it seems like a […]
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