TV Charisma https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar20_Post.mp4 Halt and Catch Fire is a pretty good TV show. It’s a four season show that covers the rise of the PC and the Internet. It’s a fictionalized version, but it’s pretty accurate. The competition for the first PC, then the first couple search engines, then the first browsers. […]
The Ambiguity Attraction Pattern
Own Your Answer https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar18_Post.mp4 We humans love ambiguity. We love the feeling that we can decide what things mean. We also love the feeling of figuring things out. Not necessarily to get an objectively “correct” answer. But to come up with answer we feel is the right answer, for us. […]
Reverse Rebound Effect
Secrets Of Attraction https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar17_Post.mp4 If you take a balloon you can rub it against something to create static electricity. You can do tricks like getting it to stick to a wall, making your hair stand up. Once my friends and I were hiking. We came to a campsite and as soon as […]
Develop Impressive Verbal Flow
Unique Practice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar14_Post.mp4 I watched a goofy movie a few days ago. One person’s skill was being able to come up with rhyming verbal smackdowns. Kind of like one way rap battles. Her character was the archetype of somebody who doesn’t have “book smarts” but instead has very valuable “street smarts.” […]
Language Flow State
Unconscious Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar08_Post.mp4 The flow state is a very interesting psychological state. One that sports psychologists have been keenly interested in. One idea is that it represents the top of the Maslow hierarchy. The temporary yet blissful state of “self actualization.” It kind of make sense from a biological, mind-body perspective. […]
One Mind Shift To Rule Them All
Two Kinds Of People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar07_Post.mp4 There are plenty of ways to look at things. Plenty of simple categories to put things into. Pretty people and non pretty people. Tall people and short people. Perhaps one of my favorites is the famous line at the end of “The Good, The Bad, and […]
The Nurse Killer Authority Pattern
Authority Goes A Long Way https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar06_Post.mp4 They did an experiment in a hospital once. Part of a larger group of experiments. A researcher would call a nurse. The researcher would identify themselves as a Dr., but one they’d never heard of before. “Hi, this Dr. Schmeckleberry…” And they would tell […]
How To Be The Source of Truth
Authority Belief Hack https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar03_Post.mp4 One interesting idea is how we humans treat “ideas” or beliefs. That we’d much prefer a comfortable lie than an unpleasant truth. There are TONS of metaphors that describe how HARD it is for us to accept a harsh truth about life. This is essentially the idea behind […]
How To Demonstrate Real Authority
Higher Is Better https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar02_Post.mp4 Most animals live in hierarchies. The ones that don’t are more of the loner types. Like bears or sharks. Animals that live in hierarchies do so because it’s much more efficient that way. One way to think of groups of animals is as a singular organism. […]
Moving Pictures Seductive Ideas
Terrifying Realism https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Feb28_Post.mp4 Way back in the day, when movies were first created, it must have been pretty impressive. One such movie had a train driving right at the audience. And people thought it was going to come out of the screen and crash into them. Silly, yes. But when new […]
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