Calibrated Horror https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec04_Post.mp4 One of my favorite horror movie “reveals” was in the movie “Orphan.” (Spoiler alert!) A family adopted a kid. And the kid started doing evil things. Causing problems in the family. Trying to kill their natural kid. One reason they chose her from the orphanage was […]
Ancient Metaphors Of Relentless Ambition
Dig Deep https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec03_Post.mp4 One of the critical elements of the Hero’s Journey is the belly of the whale. This is according to Joseph Campbell, the guy who discovered the hero’s journey. Many successful books and movies follow this template. The clearest example is the very first Star Wars. Because George Lucas […]
Reject False Labels
Friendly Pranks https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec02_Post.mp4 Way back when I was in boy scouts, we would play these tricks on each other. Some of them were a lot of fun. My buddy and I would even pretend to be victims, it was so much fun. The gag worked at big Jamborees, with tons of different […]
Build A Self-Sustaining Future
Electro Magnetism https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov18_Post.mp4 The most elegant or beautiful equation, or in this case, set of equations, are Maxwell’s Equations. This is by a vote by science type geeks who are into these kinds of things. The second is Euler’s identity. Euler’s identity is very tight, compact. They contain symbols that most […]
Awaken Your Romantic Empire
Human Operators Manual https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct16_Post.mp4 A long, long time ago, Mother Nature had a decision to make. She’d just finished creating these new, self aware, talking monkey people. She knew we were intelligent, that we’d be able to make tools, overcome our environment. She had a good idea that as small groups, with […]
Flow Like A Dream
No Stopping https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept20_Post.mp4 One of the more interest states is the “flow state.” Plenty of psychologists have been studying this. Generally in sports. Competitive sports. When you are in a kind of “zone.” When you don’t need your conscious mind. When you are operating a very high level of […]
Leverage The Human Condition
Free Will Illusion https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept14_Post.mp4 There’s an interesting TV show on Netflix. A popular German TV show called “Dark.” About a whole bunch of time travel loops and paradoxes. One of the underlying themes is free will. All the characters keep running into different versions of themselves. And all of them […]
Escape Short Time Thinking
Switch Teams https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept08_Post.mp4 There are a few ways to sell things to people. One is to memorize a pitch. Practice that pitch. And spit it out to as many people as possible. So long as you make enough money during a 40 hour week, with whatever sales you get, you’re good. […]
Shoot Arrows Of Happy Love
Sponge People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun27_Post.mp4 When humans are born, our brains are extremely thirsty sponges. Our instincts are calibrated so doing what help us to survive feels very good. Being hungry sucks. Eating feels fantastic. Being alone sucks. We are social animals, not sharks. So being around people we enjoy, and […]
Bliss Inducing Eye Contact
Love Options https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun12_Post.mp4 There are two ways to build outcome independence. One way is old school. For example, let’s say you decided to become outcome independent when you talked to gorgeous girls. So you really DIDN’T care what happened during the conversation. So you could playfully tease her, make jokes, be […]
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