Not Much Choice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct17_Post.mp3 Way back in the day, a normal life went through some basic phases. We didn’t have a choice. We were very much constrained by our environment. We were born and we were kids for a while. We were utterly dependent on adults. We asked, and if […]
Build Relentless Ambition
Wrong Drives https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct15_Post.mp3 Most, if not all, modern problems, can be described in terms of “instinct mismatch.” Our mind-body systems were not calibrated for the modern world. We were calibrated to live in a much different environment. One instinct that helped us back then but can utterly destroy us today is the […]
Half Life Motivation
Money Train https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct14_Post.mp3 If you can become a motivational speaker, even to a relatively small audience, you can make a ton of money. Why? A couple of reasons. One, motivational speakers tend to bring out our best selves. Our ideal selves. We feel really good in the presence of a […]
Motivation Dangers
Contradictions https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct13_Post.mp3 There are a few paradoxes baked into the cake of self development. These stem from our ancient instincts. These are in many similar structures. Like if you’re watching a movie, or TV show. And you recognize an actor, but you don’t quite remember what other TV show or movie […]
Reject False Labels
Friendly Pranks https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec02_Post.mp4 Way back when I was in boy scouts, we would play these tricks on each other. Some of them were a lot of fun. My buddy and I would even pretend to be victims, it was so much fun. The gag worked at big Jamborees, with tons of different […]
Infinite Goal Pursuits
Approaching Infinity There are certain mathematical functions that are only interesting around infinity. Of course, since infinity is not really anything that we can think about, we have to think about this in abstract terms. So these mathematical functions can’t really be solved, like normal algebraic equations, where X is some specific number […]
Jesus Pyramid Scheme
Happy Hour Taquitos I went to my local bar a couple of weeks ago. They have a pretty good happy hour. Drinks aren’t really all that cheap, but between 4 and 7 they have a free appetizer buffet. It’s not healthy, it’s the same kind of stuff you’d find in the frozen […]
Hallucination Instinct
Viking Invasions During the early middle ages in Europe, life was very chaotic. One reason was that for about 300 years, the Vikings had a short term, lighting attack based, military superiority. They had these thin boats that didn’t need a lot of depth. They could sail up rivers, deep into Europe. […]
Hypnotizing Audiences and Kangaroos
Free Seminar I went to a free seminar a couple weeks ago. It was at a local community center. The seminar was on public speaking, but it didn’t give a lot of information. Some public speaking seminars are on pure techniques, which kind of ignore the public speaking fear that people have. […]
Persistence Inventing
Sweaty Humans One of the strange things that separates us humans from the rest of the primates is that we don’t have much body hair. We also sweat, which is something no other animal does. And we have arched feet. Surprisingly, these three traits allowed us to do something very useful in our very ancient […]
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