The Battle Of Thought Control As humans, one of the things we love to do is come up with ideas about how others should be behaving. People shouldn’t text and drive. People should say thank you. People shouldn’t watch TV past ten PM. Kids should do their homework. Parents should pay more attention to their […]
Fiat Death
How Paper Money Slowly Kills Us Quite a bold article, right? There’s plenty of posts from economic and fringe sites about the dangers of fiat currency, but I’d like to focus on how fiat currencies slowly whittle away our motivation. We’ll look at this from a personal development and motivational standpoint. What Is Money? […]
Why People Cheat
Understanding Cheaters There are two ways to avoid being with a cheater who breaks your heart. One way is to simply hope for the best. This might work, depending on your living situation, environment and circumstances. But if this is your preferred method, and it doesn’t work, you risk having your heart broken. Worse, you […]
The Cialdini Trap
The Real Matrix Who is Cialdini, and why the heck is he trapping us? Cialdini did groundbreaking research and wrote a groundbreaking book (and subsequent books) outlining that things that influence us when we make decisions. Each one of these has been established through various testing and decades of marketing by advertisers. These are […]
The Myth Of Complacency
Why Risk And Uncertainty Is Scary We humans don’t like doing new things. Our brains very much like to settle into as many auto pilot situations as we can. Much of our thinking patterns and collections of biases evolved to cut down on thinking energy. Because our brains are a pretty expensive organ (operational calories […]
Belief Change
What Beliefs Are And How To Change Them This will be an ambitious post. We will endeavor to find out what beliefs are. Once we understand what they are, we will start to understand some ways to change them. We will be doing this from a purely biological, scientific standpoint. We will not rely on […]
Time Preference – The Ultimate Life Skill
Body Moving If you were an athlete, you would need a lot of skills, depending on the sport. A sprinter would need different skills from an NLF lineman. A world class table tennis player would need different skills than a NHL goalie. But when looking at all sports, some skills are much more generalized across […]
What Is Ego?
Mysteries Of The Ego – Explained Philosophers, doctors and psychologists have attempted to describe what this thing we call the “ego” really is. In this article, we will attempt to understand it from a purely scientific, biological and basic standpoint. The goal is to develop a working knowledge of the ego, so you can be […]