Game Everything https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug22_Post.mp3 I’ve always been a fan of game theory. It’s an interesting way to “game out” pretty much anything. And unless you make it a point to study game theory, you don’t really understand that it is everywhere. And it can be applied in a kajillion places. One popular […]
Sharpen Your Thinking Skills
Long Game https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug20_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting theory posed by an economist. A couple of economists actually. The first compared life before agriculture to life after agriculture. When you are a hunter gatherer, you are always living in the now. If you are hungry, you go out and kill something now and […]
Invent The Real You
In Character https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug17_Post.mp3 Way back when Robin Williams was an up and coming comedian, he auditioned for this first TV role, “Mork and Mindy.” He played an alien stuck on earth (named Mork) who lived with a human (Mindy). And he showed up to the audition in character. He sat in his […]
Automatic Attraction
Fire and Water https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug10_Post.mp3 Once upon a time there was an ancient poet. Dude’s name was Rumi. Lived back into the 1200’s. He was one of many who understood the paradoxes of life. When you step into the fire, you’re really stepping into the cool water. Or when you step […]
Magic Killing Elephants
Don’t Think About It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug09_Post.mp3 There’s a famous story about a wizard and a king. The king is growing impatient with the wizard. The kingdom is in shambles and the king is worried about a peasant uprising. So he calls in the wizard and says: Listen, dude, you’d better produce something […]
Fake Security Blankets
Stop Hiding https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug08_Post.mp3 Once upon a time there was this golden Buddha statue. Way back in the day, in Thailand. But then the Burmese were getting ready to invade. Many of the smaller national treasures were hidden. Except for this golden Buddha. It was too big. So they covered […]
Celery Hunter Love
Slipped In Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug07_Post.mp3 Presuppositions are very powerful. For anything spoken or written, there are linguistic presuppositions. Things you must accept in order to make sense of a sentence. For example, suppose you were selling cars and you wanted to get across the idea that the car is popular. So you […]
Ditch Unattractive Behaviors
Intuitive Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug06_Post.mp3 One way to figure out the best way to behave is to ask, “what would a caveman do?” Many anthropologists believe that every single problem in modern society is down to something called “instinct mismatch.” The instincts that drive most of our behaviors were calibrated a long time ago. […]
Unhelpful Nice Behavior
Water and Ice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug05_Post.mp3 Life is filled with paradoxes. According to the harsh rules of economics, everything costs something. Plenty of philosophy and poetry is filled with ideas of expecting one thing, and getting something else. The entire history of government involvement in an otherwise smoothly functioning economy is filled with examples […]
Attraction By Elimination
Logic Solution https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug04_Post.mp3 Once upon a time, there was an American mathematician. The U.S. version of Alan Turing during WWII. Alan Turing was the dude who broke the Nazi Enigma Code. This guy, the American dude, did more or less the same thing. Used his math brain to help defeat the […]
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