Godfather of Influence One important and critical insight of Dr. Cialdini is that we often are influenced by things outside of our conscious awareness. But then our ego driven conscious brains need to come up with a post event, logical sounding reason why we did what we just did. This is never the […]
Culinary Trainwreck
Cooking Experiment I had wanted to cook this complicated recipe for a long time. It was a recipe that required multiple steps of cooking, as well as a bunch of different ingredients I don’t normally use. Finally I decided to pull the trigger, so I budgeted a few hours one weekend to try […]
Peanut Butter Seduction
Stock Charts If you study stock charts, it seems very easy to understand how to make money in the stock market. With all the various indicators, the moving averages, various overbought and oversold indicators, MACD, volume indicators, it seems simple from a purely intellectual standpoint. But as soon as you invest your money, […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
Scientific Death Sellers
Addictive Foods The biggest advances in brain chemistry, particularly when it comes to addictions and deep mind control, are not being done by the medical community. They are being done by the processed food industry. When they are trying out different additives to food, they feed them to people while they are inside […]
Desire Overtone Analysis
Sexy Wealth Trifecta I have this friend, she’s really gorgeous, and really wealthy, and she loves to shop. Her house is huge, and it’s always got some pretty nice stuff. But she’s developed this very powerful, metaphysical sounding, financial accounting system that keeps money flowing through at an absolute maximum level frequency. […]
Invisible Attraction
Candid Camera There was this episode of a hidden camera prank TV show from way back before the Internet, like in the sixties or seventies. A woman had a suitcase, and inside the suitcase was a magnet. And she would ask guys to help her carry the suitcase, but none of the guys […]
Secret Dragon Seduction
Party People I was at this party the other night, and there were these two people, guy and a girl, that were flirting with each other from across the room. But it was just barely perceptible. Every time the girl would make eye contact with the guy, her eyes would quickly dart away […]
Treasure Hunting Symmetry
Emmy Noether There was a German mathematician, Emmy Noether, who came up with a beautiful idea linking symmetry and conservation laws. She said that wherever you find any kind of symmetry, you’ll find a corresponding conservation law. And whenever you have a conservation laws, there will be an equivalent symmetry somewhere. Invisible […]
Demon Planet
Exorcism Increase There have been a lot of stories in various news media about the increasing number of exorcisms. Some say this is correlated to the slowly collapsing global economy. Some say this is correlated to the rise of civil unrest in many parts of the world. One theory says this is […]
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