Whole Foods I went into whole foods a few days ago. I don’t normally shop there. It’s kind of far and expensive. I was just curious and I was in the neighborhood. I was looking at all the chicken and I noticed they had different prices per pound. But I couldn’t see a clear […]
Persistence Inventing
Sweaty Humans One of the strange things that separates us humans from the rest of the primates is that we don’t have much body hair. We also sweat, which is something no other animal does. And we have arched feet. Surprisingly, these three traits allowed us to do something very useful in our very ancient […]
Unconsciously Competent Skills
Martial Arts If you were to study martial arts it would be taking something at the level of unconscious competence, raising it to the level of conscious competence and then rebuilding it at the level of conscious competence and then dropping it back down into the level of unconscious competence. The first level of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Super Brain Theory
Kick The Can When I was a kid me and a bunch of other kids on my block would play a lot of kid games. We played scavenger hunt a couple of times. Somebody would come up with a list of regular household items and then we would break into teams and see who could […]
90 10 Golden Rule
Music Tutorial The other night I was watching this very interesting music tutorial. The guy was talking about songwriting strategies. He started off by going over the basics song structure. The intro, the verse, the chorus, the break, the verse, the outro. Then he started talking about how to choose a chord progression. It […]
The Magic Of The Earth
Boring Movie The other night I was watching this interesting movie on TV. It started out interesting but then it started to get kind of boring. A lot of the conversations that characters were having were outside in this very beautiful garden. Because the movie was boring, I stopped paying attention to what they […]
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 […]
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