Feeling People Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr14_Post.mp4 What’s the purpose of job interviews? First you send in your application, then you get a call for an interview. If it’s a decent job, you’ll have a couple of interviews. So do so many people need to speak with you? Clearly you are qualified, you have […]
Beware The Rattlesnake In The Box
Two Persuasion Models There are two basic ways to persuade somebody. Inside out, or outside in. Most of us use the outside in approach. We’ve got a fantastic idea in our brain. And since that idea lives in our brains, we LOVE it. And since WE love it, we assume […]
Embedded Command Picnic Love
Passed Down Metaphor I heard a story once by an old school sales guy. He was telling me a story he was told when he started. And since this even happened, him telling me the story, about ten years ago, the original story, as far as I could tell, is from maybe the […]
Lonely Monty Hall
What Is He Saying? I have this really weird friend that only speaks in structure language. He avoids content at all costs, and, surprisingly enough, it’s very compelling and soothing to listen to this person. Like all you want to do is blank your mind, when you listen to this person. All […]
Instinctive Sex Programming
Meandering Lecture I went to see this lecture recently by a psychologist. She was applying theories of evolutionary psychology to sales, to leverage our ancient social instincts to more easily make money. Her theory was that everything is, at its core, a kind of frame battle. And that by understanding the deep […]
Ancient Orbiters
Deep Instincts Always Win I saw a recent lecture by a famous psychologist. She was talking about the relationship between online dating and the massive dumpster fire the modern dating game has turned into. She said that, at its core, it’s all about false signals. Compared to a more organic system, where […]
Amnesia Delivery Service
Elusive Bad Guy There is this really strange burglar the FBI has been looking for for some time. He has a very unique MO, and he never actually steals anything. The only thing they can arrest him for is credit card fraud, and breaking and entering. He chooses his victims very, very […]
Algebraic Jesus
Dirt Sellers I have some really weird friends. They’ve been having this really outlandish competitions since they were in college. Now, they have full time jobs and families, but at least once per year they’ll take a vacation together and have the absolute craziest competitions. Like they’ll each put $500 in a […]
Dual Planet Theory
My Mouth Hurts I had a friend who had a pain in his mouth so he went to see a dentist. The dentist looked around and took an x-ray. He told him he had four wisdom teeth, all impacted. That the longer he waited to have them taken out, the more the […]
Inner Game Superhero
Weird Joke Teller I’ve had this really weird friend since elementary school. He’s got this really, really deadpan sense of humor. But the jokes he makes with this deadpan sense of humor never make any sense whatsoever. But because he is so serious, and he says these really weird things with such […]
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