Nurture And Nature https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr12_Post.mp4 There are two general schools of thought about what makes us who we are as individuals. There’s the blank slate side of the spectrum. That our minds are completely programmable. That with the right training, we can be “programmed” to do pretty much anything our “programmers” want us […]
Your Massive Inheritance
Invent And Replicate https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr11_Post.mp4 Once, a long time ago, I was hanging out in this laboratory. A place I worked right after college. An engineer and myself were doing an experiment. We were using something called “protamine.” This was to counter the effects of heparin. Heparin is the natural anticoagulant […]
Show Them How Great You Are
Float Like A Butterfly https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr10_Post.mp4 I saw a clip online the other day. Of Muhammad Ali in one of his fights. He was standing in the corner, arms wide, holding the ropes on either side of him. Leaving himself absolutely wide open. The other guy took at least 10 swipes at […]
Wake Up Your Learning Instinct
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. […]
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 […]
Create Positive Cycles At Will
Once You See Them https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr01_Post.mp4 Many things are invisible. But once you calibrate your mind to see them, you’ll see them everywhere. Their not really invisible, but intangible. A description of a process. A metaphor. One such metaphor is the reinforcing cycle, or loop. For example, think of something […]
Plant The Seeds Of Love
What Do They Really Mean? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar21_Loop.mp4 There are a lot of useful metaphors that have been overused. Not necessarily overused, but used too often without really understanding them. Once I was at Griffith Park observatory in Los Angeles. A buddy of mine and I had just finished watching a Pink Floyd laser […]
Drop Ambition Breadcrumbs
Five Years? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19_Post.mp4 A common question you get in interviews is: Where do you see yourself in five years? I never really liked that question. One, because I never had a five year plan that included the company I was applying for. But mainly because my five year plans are nobody’s […]
The Nurse Killer Authority Pattern
Authority Goes A Long Way https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar06_Post.mp4 They did an experiment in a hospital once. Part of a larger group of experiments. A researcher would call a nurse. The researcher would identify themselves as a Dr., but one they’d never heard of before. “Hi, this Dr. Schmeckleberry…” And they would tell […]
Long Game Starvation Plans
New Sheriff In Town There’s this really interesting restaurant downtown that has just recently popped up. There are a lot of rumors behind the guy who started the restaurant. The most common one is that he came into town to retire here, but only after doing research online. He figured that was […]
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