Scrambled Egg Theory https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar31_Post.mp4 What is confidence? There’s contextual confidence. There’s meta-contextual confidence. Then there’s meta-meta confidence. When people say, “be confident,” they are referring to “meta-meta confidence.” First, contextual confidence. Let’s say you’ve never made an omelette. And you have no idea how. All you can […]
The Reverse Memory Brain Hack
Memory Requires Effort https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar30_Post.mp4 Forgetting names is easy. So easy, everybody can do it. But there is a way to remember names. First you choose the very FIRST thing you notice about them. Their clothing, a physical feature. This is ONLY an internal reference, so it must be HONEST. […]
What If Your Memories Were False?
Self Awareness Deception https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar29_Post.mp4 Once I had to go to traffic school. Where you avoid getting hit by a moving violation, so your insurance doesn’t go up. You still gotta pay the fine, but at least nothing goes on your record. The teacher I had was pretty interesting. A lot of […]
The Happiness Generator Experiment
Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
The Motorboat Mind Trap
Metaphors Are Descriptions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27_Post.mp4 There’s a common metaphor about the relationship between the conscious mind and the unconscious mind. And like many metaphors, it sort of sounds good, but it’s not very helpful. Metaphors, are by their nature, less complex than the thing they are describing. And metaphors ARE descriptions. Not […]
Play The Most Ancient Game
Maslow’s Mistake https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar26_Post.mp4 What does it mean to be self-actualized? This is the top of Maslow’s hierarchy. Maslow’s hierarchy is something that is kind of misunderstood. It’s one of those things that’s kind of repeated so much it’s believed to be an iron clad law of human nature. In reality, the […]
Destroy Imposter Syndrome
Self Sabotage Origins https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar24_Post.mp4 Self sabotage is a common problem. And often it happens before we do anything. It’s commonly described when somebody is playing out of their league. A common TV or movie trope is the guy or gal who is dating somebody THEY think is way out of their league. […]
Peel Back Layers of Deception
Subliminal Popcorn https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar23_Post_1.mp4 There was a famous experiment done back in the fifties. Where they blasted subliminal messages to a movie audience. And, as the mythology goes, they sold more coke and popcorn to people because of these subliminal messages. If you are a big fan of conspiracy theories, the idea of […]
Discover Inner Money Game
Negative Cognitive Dissonance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar22_Post.mp4 Most people know the difference between inner game outer game. Some believe inner game isn’t such a big deal. In fact plenty of people hate the idea completely. So much that they don’t even consider it worthy enough to even discuss. This, I believe, is our cognitive […]
Plant The Seeds Of Love
What Do They Really Mean? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar21_Loop.mp4 There are a lot of useful metaphors that have been overused. Not necessarily overused, but used too often without really understanding them. Once I was at Griffith Park observatory in Los Angeles. A buddy of mine and I had just finished watching a Pink Floyd laser […]
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