Way Back When https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan20_Post.mp3 The origin story of Christmas goes way back before Jesus. Dec 21 is the shortest day of the year. The longest night. And it’s pretty cold. If you were an old school farmer, you couldn’t grow anything during winter. So winter represented harsh times. Halloween […]
Ancient Love Drive
Give Up https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept04_Post.mp3 Most people have given up looking for a decent relationship. Well, not most, but a lot. Most people are still living life old school. Show up on Earth, go through school, get a job, fall in love with somebody, have a family and call it good. But this […]
Their Inner Hero
Clever Dude https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July11_Post.mp3 Bernays was an old school marketing genius. Maybe a bit on the evil side. To brainwash entire populations. He was a cousin of Freud. But if you can get past the evil genius part, and study only the genius, we can learn a few things. For example, […]
Infinitely Nested Complexity
Old School https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec22_Post.mp4 One of Adam Smith’s famous lines is about enlightened selfishness. The butcher, baker, etc. don’t do what they do because of benevolence. They do so out of self interest. Not steal things from other people self interest. But stable, long lasting, mutual benefit self interest. I, for […]
The Ancient Path To Glory
Tested And Verified https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct31_Post.mp4 One recommended idea from the ancient stoics is about obstacles. Most people hate obstacles. They pop up right when you think everything is going fine. People even avoid physical obstacles at all costs. Like a guy I used to know down at my local bike shop. […]
Be A Covert Hypnotist
Innately Learned https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept03_Post.mp4 Humans are born with a lot of skills. And we can learn a lot of skills as well. William James, an philosopher and psychologist from a hundred years ago, said we have both tons of instincts and tons of learning ability. A lot of these have a lot of […]
Custom Built Heroes
Unlimited Supply https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr09_Post.mp4 The entertainment industry is a kajillion dollar a year industry. Movies, books, TV shows, music, etc. These are sometimes purely “escapism.” You watch a movie that has no bearing on reality whatsoever. But at least for a couple hours, you can forget about life. This is why […]
White Witches
Open Your Soul There is this massage therapist who is a very powerful, very covert, and very generous white witch. Some say she is really an angel, and that if you go back far enough into universal creation, you’ll find little differences between white witches and angles. She is part of a very […]
Alchemist Cult of Metallurgy
Novel Writing Secrets If you were to decide to write a novel, so you become famous, or maybe if you only wanted to become rich, you’d have unlimited options. But your unlimited options would necessarily be constrained within common story structure. There’s basically seven story types, 14 archetypes for the good guy, 14 […]
Ancient Alien Mythology
Day At The Library The other day I had a few hours to kill so I wandered down to my local library. I grabbed a random book off the shelf and sat next to the window, which had a nice view of a small lake and some ducks. The book turned out to […]
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