Forget Truth https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov10_Post.mp3 There are two basic approaches when it comes to truth. One is the Socratic method. To simply sit back, turn off your ego, and ask simple questions. Questions that will eventually prove to your conversational partner that nothing they believe to be true really is true. This can […]
Hack Their Brains
Easy Brains https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov05_Post.mp3 There are plenty of hacks in human language and in human thinking. Noam Chomsky, the inventor of “Transformational Grammar” demonstrated that a sentence can both be grammatically correct and utterly meaningless. The example: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. There are plenty of ways to do both. Hack […]
Express The Real You
Secret Penguin https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct29_Post.mp3 I recently read a quote from Colin Farrell about playing the Penguin in the latest Batman movie. He said he was worried at first. That all the makeup would be too constricting. But he said it was the opposite. That it was very, very freeing. Because it […]
Push Button Love
No Randomness https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct28_Post.mp3 Suppose you wanted a bag of chips from a vending machine. So you put in the amount of money. You pushed the appropriate button. But instead of a bag of chips, you got a pack of donuts. This would clearly be an error. No vending machine that […]
Live Like A God
Weird Metaphor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct27_Post.mp3 Imagine the following scenario. It’s very strange, but hang in there. It’s got a pretty good punch line. Suppose there were very, very few people who could actually play music. These guys that could play music were treated like absolute royalty. I don’t mean super groups like […]
Secret Society Lover
Frame Perception https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct21_Post.mp3 One powerful insight is how people judge us. People just us based on how we judge us. If we feel weak, people will perceive us as weak. Not because they, inside their own brain, have decided that. But because we have weak frames and we exhibit external behavior […]
Half Life Motivation
Money Train https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct14_Post.mp3 If you can become a motivational speaker, even to a relatively small audience, you can make a ton of money. Why? A couple of reasons. One, motivational speakers tend to bring out our best selves. Our ideal selves. We feel really good in the presence of a […]
Ditch Desperation
Lost Humans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct11_Post.mp3 It’s been said that most people live lives of quiet desperation. This may be an accurate description of modern humans. It sure seems like a lot of people are in a bad way these days. But it also might be a kind of a flex. How so? […]
Qualifying Skills
Qualifying Bias https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct10_Post.mp3 One very important idea that is kind of hard to wrap your mind around is the idea of qualifying. This is something that is built in to our subconscious. How we qualify is how we sort for stuff in the world. When you go shopping for example, you’ve got […]
One Small Shift To Greatness
Enter The Dragon https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct09_Post.mp3 When somebody does heroin for the first time, it feels pretty good. It’s often described as indescribable. The basic theory is that our brains are wired from evolution to feel really good but only AFTER a fantastic accomplishment. Killing a woolly mammoth, getting mad respect for the tribe. […]
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