All Aboard https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July27_Post.mp4 Plenty of movies have very specific archetypes. There are twelve basic archetypes you’ll find in most movies, books, stories, legends. But there are also common collections of groups. The various Seven Samurai, from the famous movie, are essentially replicated in the first Star Wars. Luke, Obi Won, Han […]
Dream Yourself A Fortune
How’d That Happen? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July26_Post.mp4 Plenty of cool inventions happened by accident. Most inventions were discovered on that path to something greater. For example, the space race of the 60’s and 70’s spawned a whole industry of related products. Personal electronics might not have existed had their not been a need for that […]
Leave Corrupted Thinking Behind
Production vs. Consumption https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July25_Post.mp4 I’ve always been interested in history. I’ve one thing from history is that all societies end up collapsing. Every since we invented, or discovered, agriculture, we’ve had a kind of shelf life. Which kind of makes sense, but from a really big picture kind of way. A […]
Escape Your False Cage
All Up To You https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July24_Post.mp4 The world is a fantastic place. No matter what time you live in, there is opportunities for massive wealth. Or massive poverty. This metaphor has been expressed in plenty of different ways. The famous poem about two guys in prison, looking out of the window. […]
White Noise Brain Effect
Pork Disaster https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July22_Post.mp4 One critical idea is calibration. This is kind of an abstract concept. But to fully get the most out of life, calibration is absolutely critical. What is calibration? Let’s say you’re having a dinner party. And you’re cooking a pork roast. And the recipe says to […]
Useless Truisms Vs Strategies
Totally Dude https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July21_Post.mp4 There are a lot of cool “truisms” that sound pretty cool. But what’s often missing is a usable strategy. On a more meta scale, you’ll find this everywhere. Technically, it’s when we humans mistake a “description” for a cause. This is kind of hard to wrap your mind […]
You Are The River
Numbers Are Huge https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July11_Post.mp4 Once I had this chemistry professor. First day of class he was trying to impress upon us the enormity of the numbers involved in chemistry. Most of us can’t fathom anything beyond a couple dozen. There’s all these infographics about how big different quantities of money are. […]
Stop Building Up Regret
Two Truth Levels https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July09_Post.mp4 There are a lot of “truisms” from self help. They are true, but only helpful if you “understand them.” Most people only understand them on a superficial level. But once you experience them, you “get them” on a much deeper level. A much more intuitive and experiential […]
What Signals Are You Sending?
Humans vs. Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July07_Post.mp4 Why do people have job interviews? Particularly for highly technical jobs. Let’s assume we are visiting aliens to earth and we need to report on human behavior. We are highly advanced species, kind of like Vulcans. From a pure logical frame of mind, it seems like a […]
Rise Above The Pack Of Beggars
I’m Hungry https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July06_Post.mp4 Way back in the day, long before agriculture, there was a very clear transition point. This is very, very hard to imagine today, but if you force your mind on this idea, it will be helpful. Back then, everybody was almost always hungry. The only time people weren’t hungry […]
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