Monkey People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept07_Post.mp3 Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist. He had a couple of interesting ideas. One is something called a Dunbar Number. The number of people we can keep track of in our brains. For humans, this is about 150. Meaning you have space in your brain to instantly recall […]
Face Down The World
Eastern Riches https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept05_Post.mp3 One of the greatest “rags to riches” story is about Japan. And how they became super wealthy very quickly. It all started with the British and the opium trade in China. As it happened historically, the British Empire was at its strongest, when the Chinese, during the waning Qing […]
Ambition Energy
Food Chasers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug25_Post.mp3 A long, long time ago, we were persistence hunters. Or so some anthropologists believe. This is why we have arched feet and relatively hairless, sweaty bodies. The arched feet help us run for a long time without damaging our joints. Kind of like shock absorbers. Our sweaty […]
Choose Your Archetype
Choose Your Role https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug24_Post.mp3 We humans love stories. And within these stories there are common archetypes. One that I like is the Jack Reacher type. He’s very much like the Clint Eastwood, “man with no name.” Which was modeled after a similar character played by Toshiro Mifune. Eastwood’s character was […]
Build Your Future Now
Future Projections https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug23_Post.mp3 I used to like reading Stephen King. Lately, not so much. But I remember one of his characters had what people would call “OCD.” Turns out OCD is a real disorder and those who really DO have OCD don’t like that people claim to have OCD, in a self-deprecating, […]
Ditch Useless Shortcuts
Brain Power https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug21_Post.mp3 Chess players burn a lot of calories. It doesn’t look that way. They’re just sitting there, right? But gram for gram, our brain burns more calories than any other organ. Our brain is a very resource intensive organ. Chess players, if they don’t eat enough, lose a […]
Stand Out In A Crowd
Who Are You? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug16_Post.mp3 There have been a few social experiments regarding perception. Like the famous one where a world class violinist played in the subway all day. Nobody recognized him. He only got a few dollars in his tip hat. On the other hand, a college student and his buddies […]
Ancient Human Power
Magic Words https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug11_Post.mp3 Language and thought are two sides of the same coin. Your thoughts generate your language. Your language puts thoughts in other people’s brains. But language is much more than words. Imagine a group of proto-human monkey people. Sitting around in a group, doing whatever they do. […]
Magic Killing Elephants
Don’t Think About It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug09_Post.mp3 There’s a famous story about a wizard and a king. The king is growing impatient with the wizard. The kingdom is in shambles and the king is worried about a peasant uprising. So he calls in the wizard and says: Listen, dude, you’d better produce something […]
Celery Hunter Love
Slipped In Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug07_Post.mp3 Presuppositions are very powerful. For anything spoken or written, there are linguistic presuppositions. Things you must accept in order to make sense of a sentence. For example, suppose you were selling cars and you wanted to get across the idea that the car is popular. So you […]
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