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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Self Confidence Feedback Loop
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, […]
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