Palm Reader There’s this very powerful palm reader that works out of a very nondescript shop. In fact, unless you know she’s a palm reader you won’t tell, you won’t be able to tell by the outside of the shop. Even if you walk inside the shop it’s not altogether clear exactly what this woman […]
Sex Beliefs and Social Status
Young Anthropologist There was this young female anthropologist during Victorian England that went on an expedition by herself to some island in the South Seas to study the people that lived in the South Seas. The people that lived in the South Seas had dealt with British people before and they could sort of […]
Gossip, Rumors And Deadly Instincts
Find The Leaker There is a very common trope found in spy movies if you’re in charge of an organization and you suspect that somebody in your organization is leaking information there’s an easy way to find who the leak is. The first thing you do is you need to come up with several […]
The Boy Plunger
Dance Your Way To Riches There was this famous dancer back in the 50s. He traveled around the world. He would dance in various cities around the world and he would receive and send telegraphs from and to his broker. He would look at the various data from the stocks that he was watching […]
Investing Super Genius
Market Bubble Story A long time ago I used to work with the sky during a market bubble. This guy got a tip from a friend of his. The tip was by this stock it;s going to go up. There wasn’t much information. There wasn’t much reason, just by this stock it’s going to go […]
Gold Horsemen And Apocalypses
Wizard Of Oz One of the most interesting stories that is been around for a long time is the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is a good story for a lot of reasons. For one it follows the heroes journey to a T. There’s been a lot of comparisons between the Wizard of […]
Global Hive Mind
Universal People There is a guy named Brown who is an anthropologist. He wanted to study people from all over the world to see if he could come up with something called Universal People. A set of characteristics that every single human on earth shares regardless of how advanced or how primitive their technology […]
Eternal Battles And Your Soul
Protestant Reformation One of the biggest challenges that came to the Catholic Church came in the Middle Ages with the Protestant Reformation. This represented a huge market share challenge to the Catholic Church because up until that point the Catholic Church was the most powerful entity in Europe. They had a lot of power […]
Unconsciously Competent Skills
Martial Arts If you were to study martial arts it would be taking something at the level of unconscious competence, raising it to the level of conscious competence and then rebuilding it at the level of conscious competence and then dropping it back down into the level of unconscious competence. The first level of […]
Art Gallery Seduction
Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
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