Lucky Accountaint Once upon a time there was a very introverted accountant. He worked for very large firm. He was very good at his job so he made a lot of money. One summer they had a picnic a company picnic and this introverted accountant won a raffle at the picnic. The prize for […]
How To Start A Cult
How To Be The Chosen One If you want to start your own cult, it’s not that different from baking a cake. Meaning if you get all the right ingredients together and mix them up together in the right way, you’ll get a cake. If you do the same, you’ll get a cult. Of course, […]
Intrapersonal Communication
What To Say When You Talk To Yourself Everybody talks to themselves. Some people do it out loud and often. Full blown conversations. Other people have their self talk so deeply in mind all they notice is the resultant feelings and emotions. The idea of this post is to identify how you talk to yourself, […]
Paradox Of Achievement
Four Minute Mile This is a common story that is told in many forms. It’s commonly uses as a self-help metaphor. An “if you believe it, then you can achieve it,” metaphor. These types of metaphors are used to combat the normal human, “I won’t believe it until I see it” response. Roger Bannister […]
Equilibrium Paradox
How Much Do You Need? Most of us have a curious belief about some big thing that we want. This can either be a thing, a certain amount of money, or even a long range goal. The belief that we hold about this is that once we get that “thing,” whatever it happens to be, […]
Paradox Of Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]
Collapse
Success Rate Of Zero Humans have gone through two types of societal organization. One has been stable, the other has not. In this post, we will endeavor to explain precisely why this second type of society always ends in collapse. It is far beyond the scope to come up with any large scale remedies to […]
Might Makes Right
Survival Of The Fittest Once upon a time there was no life on Earth. Then something happened (aliens, meteor, lightning, hand of God, etc.) and there was a life form. Maybe a bunch. But they were very simple. They needed to eat, or get some kind of energy from their environment. And for some weird […]
Guru Trap
(To read about the book, The Guru Trap, please click here.) How To Avoid Being Led Astray People love following gurus. The word itself is a religious term meaning “teacher” or “priest.” But it also means the guy people follow in self-development or financial circles. It’s one thing to learn some useful information from […]
Seduction Scams
Why The Seduction Market Will Always Be Hot If you created a time capsule in your back yard, crawled into it and came out 5,000 years into the future, you’d find a lot of things different. Different language. Different monetary system. The people might even look a little different (although 5,000 years is a blink […]