Modern Trainwreck https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr07_Post.mp4 One idea of modern education is that it is a training system. Or a teaching system. Sure, if you asked all the people involved, that’s what they’d say. But in reality, it was “modeled” after a system that was similar, but not meant for teaching. More for sorting. […]
F-Bomb Origin Story
F-Bomb Origin Story Don’t Say That! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr06_Post.mp4 Most adults know to monitor their own speech when kids are around. If you accidentally drop and F-bomb, the kids will pick it up. If you are visiting a friend that has kids, you might have heard them say: “Don’t teach them any bad habits.” […]
Your 50% Personality Flexibility
Your Best Self https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr05_Post.mp4 What makes up who you are? On a day to day level, nobody really knows. We have a kind of short term memory of how we WERE. And a kind of short term expectation of how we will BE. And so long as you’ve got a lot […]
Self Confidence Feedback Loop
Scrambled Egg Theory https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar31_Post.mp4 What is confidence? There’s contextual confidence. There’s meta-contextual confidence. Then there’s meta-meta confidence. When people say, “be confident,” they are referring to “meta-meta confidence.” First, contextual confidence. Let’s say you’ve never made an omelette. And you have no idea how. All you can […]
Discover Inner Money Game
Negative Cognitive Dissonance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar22_Post.mp4 Most people know the difference between inner game outer game. Some believe inner game isn’t such a big deal. In fact plenty of people hate the idea completely. So much that they don’t even consider it worthy enough to even discuss. This, I believe, is our cognitive […]
The Most Coveted Human Instinct
The More Things Change https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar10_Post.mp4 One of our best features as humans is something called a collective memory. Many animals can learn. One common things many “wild” animals learn is a simple equivalency. Humans = Free Food They see humans, and if they’ve learned this, the start to carefully move close. […]
Surrounded by Unsolvable Solutions
3D Puzzles There are a lot of cool, 3D block puzzles. Kind of like jigsaw puzzles, but because they are 3D and not 2D it’s always pretty complicated how to put them together. When they are put together, they seem to be very simple. Until you take them apart, and they become […]
Alien DNA Determinism
Self Help Loops Any kind of self development absolutely requires an honest feedback loop. You need both success data and failure data in order to better calibrate the targeted behavior. This is true in sports, music, investing and even business, in the case of profits and losses. No Aliens https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May09Loop.mp4 The Fermi […]
Waking Lucid Dreams
Meditation Masters There are a few people who have complete control over their body. For example, some can slow down their heartbeat and breathing to very low levels. This is possible for everybody, but it takes a lot patient practice. Reclusive Super Genius https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr29Loop.mp4 There is this scientist that the authorities have […]
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