Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
Black & Decker Brain Surgery
Super Power Language Patterns I had this friend that learned a whole collection of covert language techniques. He wanted to experiment with these covert language techniques in job interviews. He tried to get a job interview at places that he was absolutely not qualified for. He would try to use these covert language techniques […]
Organic Dissipative Structures
Anthropomorphized Anthills There are two basic ways to look at an anthill. Because we humans tend to anthropomorphize things and we are so proud of our own individuality we see ants as individual entities. We don’t tend to see an anthill as one organic structure. It seems to be much more appropriate, according to […]
Unlocking Hidden Energy
Troy A Myth? For the longest time historians believe it that the Trojan war story in the city of Troy was completely a myth. Nobody really believed that the ancient city of Troy was a real place until very recently when they started to find some archaeological evidence that Troy was indeed an actual city. […]
Interdependent Co-Evolved Instincts
Cute Babies I read a recent article in a science magazine that suggested that the instinct to pick up and protect a cute baby is an evolutionarily beneficial instinct. If you can imagine two different tribes of people, one tribe that had the protect the cute baby instinct and another try that had the […]
Sociopaths And Sucker Punches
Japanese Prank Show There used to be a lot of very interesting Japanese prank game shows. Not so much anymore because I think a lot of people got sued. There was one there was kind of simple, kind of interesting. It started off with a young woman, a young attractive woman in this small […]
FOMO Ingredients
Cialdini Laws There are seven common Cialdini laws of influence that are well known by most people. The most common is something called social proof and social proof says that when a lot of people are doing something it’s going to be very hard to resist doing that same thing. The second most common […]
Time Travel Pill
Misspent Youth When I was very young, in junior high school, I did a lot of exercise and physical conditioning. When I was in junior high school I got a weight set and so I started lifting weights in the garage and I started to jog after school and on the weekends. I even ran […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]
Two Types Of Money Cycles
Plasma Sales I used to have this friend in college that was very creative with how he found ways to make money. One of the ways he found was to sell his plasma. The thing about selling plasma is you can sell it every couple of weeks. It’s not like blood where you can […]
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