Factory Settings https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan17_Post.mp3 We all have the same basic fears. One collection comes from evolution. Sudden loud noises. Heights. Sketchy dark places like forests with little visibility. The people who were naturally afraid of these things tended to survive at a higher rate, thereby passing on those same genes. […]
Secret Love Hacks
Know Their Mind https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan11_Post.mp3 Imagine if you were a door to door vacuum cleaner salesperson. A job you actually enjoyed. Sure, a pure numbers game. If you sold four cleaners per day, that would be a good living. And let’s just say you sold one for every ten people you talked […]
Reciprocal Love Generator
Cooperation https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan09_Post.mp3 Co-evolution is a pretty interesting concept. It is kind of hard to wrap your brain though. Particularly because we use metaphors to describe complex things. For example, consider bees and flowers. To famously co-evolving people. The bees get “free” food from the flowers. The flowers get a […]
Maximize Your One Life
Split Test https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec20_Post.mp3 Compare two situations. Two identical people. Same jobs, same incomes, live in the same type of neighborhood. Only one difference. One guy uses credit cards like there is no tomorrow. The other guy ONLY uses his debit cards. Or to make this metaphor even sillier, imagine […]
Flip Your Money Switch
Before The Sun https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec18_Post.mp3 I’ve always been a morning person. I like to get up early, and get things done. And get them done as quickly as possible. One thing I DO NOT like is having obligations later in the evening. I very much prefer to grind on through so I […]
The Dumbledore Reframe
Ancient Role Models https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec13_Post.mp3 One of the reasons they invented storytelling was because it provided good role models. Well, not really, it was more of an accident. But we can imagine two different tribes. Each told stories around the campfire each night. Epic legends of heroic monster killers of the past. […]
Gorilla Bias Technique
Did You See That? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec12_Post.mp3 Here’s basic theory on how we may develop unhelpful beliefs. Beliefs are kind of like filters between the world and our brain. Some are built in, some are learned. Anyhow, here’s what happens. There is the first event. Something that happens unexpectedly and gives us […]
They’ll Pursue You
Shooting Only https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec04_Loop.mp3 The idea of being “outcome independent” has been around for a long time. At least a couple thousand years. It’s one of the prime recommendations of stoicism. To focus on the shooting of the arrow, and not on the hitting of the target. This is exactly why they […]
Predict Everybody’s Personality
Similar Structure https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec03_Post.mp3 There’s an old video on YouTube called the “Axis of Awesome” or something like that. It is a demonstration that nearly all popular western music in the past couple decades have the SAME basic chord progression. If you study the structure of stories, you’ll find the same thing. On […]
Dominate Conversations
Rehearsal https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov24_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting reason why people believe in conspiracy theories. And that is “man on the street” interviews seem much more articulate than how most people speak. For example, I remember way back shortly after 9-11. They interviewed a witness. Somebody who saw it happen. And the description […]
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