Beat The Russians One of the best examples of setting and achieving a goal was the US moon program back during the 60s. This has everything that all of the goal books have as to what you need to create a goal, but there’s one more thing that was included in the US moon program […]
Time Value Of Money
Time Preference Derivation There is an idea and economics that involves thinking about money in two different ways. If you thought about having $1 million now versus having $1 million plus a little bit more in the future, there’s a point where the money that you imagine now versus that same amount of money plus […]
Effective Con Strategies
Con Movies There are a lot of fantastic movies about con artists. There’s movies about short-term cons and there’s movies about long-term cons. Whether you’re trying out a long-term con or a short term con the basic strategy is the same. You have to create a false reality around your target and you have […]
Connect To Universal Mind
Drive To The Beach A couple of weeks ago I drove down to the beach, about an hours drive from my place. I parked and I was walking out to the end of the pier and I passed by these three kids. It looked like two brothers and one sister and the older brother […]
The Transmitted Gift
Last Semester In College The very last semester of college for me was chaotic enlightening and very life-changing. I lived in a house with a bunch of other guys. When I moved in they had already arranged the rental agreement with the owner. They had been living there for about a semester before I lived […]
Nested Frame Control
Gonna Get Fired I had only been at my first job after college for three months before I made a horrific mistake that I thought would forever banish me to homelessness and life in the bushes with only an empty bottle of whiskey for a companion. I was working in the laboratory for a […]
Demon Assassination
Childhood Bully When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts. I really liked Boy Scouts. One of the things they did, we did, that I liked was to go on these backpacking trips. Sometimes for one or two days, sometimes for a week during the summer. One time during one of these […]
Queen Of A Lesser Kingdom
New Lady at Toastmasters A new woman came to my Toastmasters recently. She’s a very interesting combination or she has a very interesting combination of both confidence and anxiety. When she talks about normal things she’s very very confident, in fact she’s the most confident person I’ve seen in a very very long time. […]
Perpetual Motion Machine
One Day, Killing Time One day I was hanging out and I was bored so I decided to go over to my friends house. My friend is a hobbyist and he has a lot of cool pieces of equipment in his garage. What he does is he takes these pieces of previous electronic devices […]
Toothless Nightmare
How Many Cavities So the other day I went to the dentist. I hadn’t been to the dentist in a long long time. Normally this hasn’t been so bad. Occasionally I would get these pains in my teeth. Usually they would go away in a couple days. While I have the pain I would […]
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