Four Minute Mile This is a common story that is told in many forms. It’s commonly uses as a self-help metaphor. An “if you believe it, then you can achieve it,” metaphor. These types of metaphors are used to combat the normal human, “I won’t believe it until I see it” response. Roger Bannister […]
How To Start And Maintain A Conversation With Anybody
Why Social Anxiety Exists Social skills are coveted by many, but they are also the most difficult to practice. This is the problem that keeps many of us from actively improving our social skills. Most of us don’t improve our skills to begin with, since practicing is pretty boring. Many people would love to play […]
Collapse
Success Rate Of Zero Humans have gone through two types of societal organization. One has been stable, the other has not. In this post, we will endeavor to explain precisely why this second type of society always ends in collapse. It is far beyond the scope to come up with any large scale remedies to […]
Might Makes Right
Survival Of The Fittest Once upon a time there was no life on Earth. Then something happened (aliens, meteor, lightning, hand of God, etc.) and there was a life form. Maybe a bunch. But they were very simple. They needed to eat, or get some kind of energy from their environment. And for some weird […]
Trade Theory
Exchange Is Everywhere A good model through which to view the human experience is that of trade. As we’ll explore in this post, trade is everywhere. Sometimes partly conscious, sometimes completely subconscious. Sometimes alone, sometimes with others. But we humans are always trading. Basic Human Description One way to describe humans as having unlimited […]
Seduction Scams
Why The Seduction Market Will Always Be Hot If you created a time capsule in your back yard, crawled into it and came out 5,000 years into the future, you’d find a lot of things different. Different language. Different monetary system. The people might even look a little different (although 5,000 years is a blink […]
How To Get A Girlfriend
Step By Step Girlfriend Getting Process What? Seriously? Pretty much anything can be broken down into a step by step process. Even things that are very hard for a great many people. For example, a simple step by step process for making money in stocks is as follows: 1) Buy a stock you think […]
Frame Theory
Frame and Frame Strength Analysis What is frame? It’s that thing that everybody wants. You know when you have it, you know when you lose it. You can sense it when somebody else has it. We note the difference between “the” frame and “frame strength.” Frame Strength vs. The Frame Everybody has frame strength. […]
Social Sleight of Mouth
Insane Frame Building Sleight of Mouth (SOM) is a very powerful set of tools to overcome objections on a linguistic-logical level. However, they work for a lot of reasons besides the way people think they work. For example, let’s consider a very common price objection, which serves as a model in many books and courses […]
Childhood vs. Adult Mindset
The Two Mindsets Of Life There are plenty of ways to categorize things. People who are taller than me, and people who aren’t. People who are older than you, and people who aren’t. Things that are edible, and things that aren’t. Things you can afford, and things you can’t. Carnivores and herbivores. Those with loaded […]