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 […]
Your Massive Inheritance
Invent And Replicate https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr11_Post.mp4 Once, a long time ago, I was hanging out in this laboratory. A place I worked right after college. An engineer and myself were doing an experiment. We were using something called “protamine.” This was to counter the effects of heparin. Heparin is the natural anticoagulant […]
Show Them How Great You Are
Float Like A Butterfly https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr10_Post.mp4 I saw a clip online the other day. Of Muhammad Ali in one of his fights. He was standing in the corner, arms wide, holding the ropes on either side of him. Leaving himself absolutely wide open. The other guy took at least 10 swipes at […]
Custom Built Heroes
Unlimited Supply https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr09_Post.mp4 The entertainment industry is a kajillion dollar a year industry. Movies, books, TV shows, music, etc. These are sometimes purely “escapism.” You watch a movie that has no bearing on reality whatsoever. But at least for a couple hours, you can forget about life. This is why […]
Unlock Your Ancient Super Powers
Intelligent Design? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr08_Post.mp4 Whoever made us humans put a lot of thought into it. God, aliens, biologically driven natural selection, whoever or whatever. They knew what we were doing. One thing that we have that no other living creatures has is language. Sure, plenty of other animals can transmit basic information […]
Wake Up Your Learning Instinct
Modern Trainwreck https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr07_Post.mp4 One idea of modern education is that it is a training system. Or a teaching system. Sure, if you asked all the people involved, that’s what they’d say. But in reality, it was “modeled” after a system that was similar, but not meant for teaching. More for sorting. […]
F-Bomb Origin Story
F-Bomb Origin Story Don’t Say That! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr06_Post.mp4 Most adults know to monitor their own speech when kids are around. If you accidentally drop and F-bomb, the kids will pick it up. If you are visiting a friend that has kids, you might have heard them say: “Don’t teach them any bad habits.” […]
Your 50% Personality Flexibility
Your Best Self https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr05_Post.mp4 What makes up who you are? On a day to day level, nobody really knows. We have a kind of short term memory of how we WERE. And a kind of short term expectation of how we will BE. And so long as you’ve got a lot […]
Your Programmable Memory
What’s Really In Your Brain? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr03_Post.mp4 Back in the seventies, a troubling trend started to happen. Some psychologists got the big idea that dysfunctional adults had emotional issues because of repressed childhood memories. Which set up a very disturbing situation. Not unlike how people can easily be coerced into giving false confessions […]
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