Exchange Is Everywhere A good model through which to view the human experience is that of trade. As we’ll explore in this post, trade is everywhere. Sometimes partly conscious, sometimes completely subconscious. Sometimes alone, sometimes with others. But we humans are always trading. Basic Human Description One way to describe humans as having unlimited […]
Unintended Consequences
The Unpredictable Future The human brain is extremely limited in how we perceive things. Our sensory organs can only discern a very tiny window within the data that is hitting them. Even the idea of our conscious minds is not something we fully understand. Some studies indicate that up to 95% of our behaviors are […]
Trial and Error
Modeling Success Is Impossible One of the cornerstones of NLP is modeling. In fact, the entirety of NLP was created through modeling. The linguistic-persuasion aspect was modeled from the top therapists at the time. NLP if often referred to as the “study of excellence.” Which means they find people doing excellent things, copy them, and […]
Should vs Is
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 […]
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, […]
Frame Theory
Frame and Frame Strength Analysis What is frame? It’s that thing that everybody wants. You know when you have it, you know when you lose it. You can sense it when somebody else has it. We note the difference between “the” frame and “frame strength.” Frame Strength vs. The Frame Everybody has frame strength. […]
First Beta Union
They Went Their Own Way If you are an MGTOW type, this post might make you very angry. Or maybe not. It’s not meant to be a solution to the horrible dating market that exists today. This post, believe it or not, is an interesting look at the original MGTOW group that was launched a […]
Social Sleight of Mouth
Insane Frame Building Sleight of Mouth (SOM) is a very powerful set of tools to overcome objections on a linguistic-logical level. However, they work for a lot of reasons besides the way people think they work. For example, let’s consider a very common price objection, which serves as a model in many books and courses […]
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? […]
The Dating Instinct
History Of Male Female Relationships Modern relationships are in a state never experienced before. To understand why, we need to take a quick view of the history of male-female relationships, going as far back as we can. We’ll have to make some educated guesses, but the result will be enlightening. It may also be a […]