Three Dudes https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct26_Post.mp3 What does Vito Corleone, Charlie Wilson, and FDR all have in common? They all used the same basic persuasion principle. Vito Corleone, of course, was a fictional character. But in the story, he helped out plenty of his Italian immigrant friends in the neighborhood. So later, when he […]
Self Aware Genius
The I Inside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun17_Post.mp3 What is the purpose of self awareness? I know, weird question. But what is it, exactly? A long end game of universal evolution? So we, as part of the universe, can be aware of itself? What about from an evolutionary standpoint? Once upon a time, […]
Secret Ruler
Orphan Hero https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May30_Post.mp3 Every hero starts out as an orphan. Why is this? A common question about “why things are like is” in the form of: Why did they make it this way? This basic question, the structure of the question, reveals a lot about human nature. Namely, we always […]
Unconscious Money Love
Know Your Intentions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar22_Post.mp4 Jung famously said that if you do not make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it fate. Plenty of neuroscientists say most of our actions are emotional. But then we come up with a rational sounding story of why we did what we […]
Win The Ancient Frame Battle
Old School Truth https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec17_Post.mp4 One of the best pieces of advice is an old one. Generally attributed to Dale Carnegie, but this idea is very likely much older. The advice: “You can get anybody to do anything so long as they believe it was their idea.” Consider the structure of ancient […]
Re-Calibrate Your Love Instincts
The More They Stay The Same https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec06_Post.mp4 Some truisms have been around for a long time. Because humans have the same basic structure. Our societies have had the same basic structure. For thousands of years. We aren’t really “flawed” like people tend to think. We are just out of our […]
Reverse Polarity Lightbulb Technique
They Gotta Want It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept18_Post.mp4 They say you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. This means unless the horse wants to drink, it won’t drink. Just putting him in front of some water won’t do squat. This is kind of like the joke about the light […]
Destroy Imposter Syndrome
Self Sabotage Origins https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar24_Post.mp4 Self sabotage is a common problem. And often it happens before we do anything. It’s commonly described when somebody is playing out of their league. A common TV or movie trope is the guy or gal who is dating somebody THEY think is way out of their league. […]
Balloon Animal Disaster
Lost History Humans have been the same, anatomically, physiologically, intellectually and linguistically for about 200,000 years. But we only have written historical records going back about five or six thousand years or so. This means that over 95% of human history is something we know absolutely nothing about. 95% of our ancient […]
Free Will Paradox
Never See It Coming It’s common for large companies to keep their employees in the dark as long as possible before any large layoffs. They want to keep them from knowing so they can get a maximum amount of productivity out of them. Individually, this is much easier to manage. God vs. […]
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