The Light Bult Invention There’s this really cool story about Edison. He was trying to invent the lightbulb. The lightbulb is very simple concept and whoever could come up with that first would stand to make a lot of money. That’s why Edison was so interested in creating a product. If you could make […]
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, […]
How To Use Reverse Psychology
That’s Just What They Want Us To Do Using reverse psychology is a popular way to get people to do what you want, especially if you know they wouldn’t do it if you asked them directly. Since you are not being completely honest, it can be manipulative. If you were being totally honest, you would […]
Attention Grabbing Hacks
Building Response Potential Getting attention from other people is a blessing and a curse. We all want attention but at the same time we are terrified of it. When we want to talk, when we are ready to talk, when we have something we want to say but nobody listens, it can feel terrible. […]
Brainless Human Syndrome
Why Most Of Us Can’t Think Once upon a time a very timid fellow decides to take an ocean cruise. He was very worried, as he’d never been out on the ocean. After the first couple days, he felt brave enough to venture out on the deck. But as luck would have it, as soon […]
Surefire Conversational Skills
How To Get Anybody Feeling Positive In A Hurry One of the reasons we keep ourselves from starting conversations with people is we don’t know what to say. Even if we have a couple of openers, carrying on the conversation is difficult. As soon as we hit one of those uncomfortable silences, both parties start […]
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 […]
Supply and Demand
Secrets Of The Global Brain These two words, supply and demand, seem very simple. They are known and supposedly understood by virtually anybody. They are ubiquitous, and if you know the words, but are a bit sketchy on the concepts, then you will fully understand them by the end of this post. Despite their simplicity, […]
Hallucination
The Human Unique Selling Proposition What is our best feature, as humans? Many people like to talk about this, since we are pretty different from all the other animals. Some don’t even like to accept that we are animals, imagining that we are some special beings above the rest. Chimp DNA But there seems […]
Brain Power
Your Most Underutilized Resource What’s your IQ? Before you answer that, consider the structure of that question. The very idea of IQ is considered like somebody’s height. Consider other “What is…” questions about you. What is your degree in? What is your favorite color? What is your wife’s name? What is […]