Be Yourself A very common piece of advice when wanting to make friends or to create romantic relationships is to be yourself. From a superficial level, this seems to make logical sense. If you can be yourself, you’ll eventually meet people who like the real you. At the same time, this advice […]
Tai Chi Wizard
Get Out Of The House A long time ago I took this class in tai chi. It was a class that was 24 weeks long and each week we would learn one new movement. By the end of the 24 weeks we had a whole self-contained kind of tai chi structure that we could do […]
Why Trial And Error Is Essential
Study Of Excellence Let’s imagine that you want to start a business. You just finished reading a book on NLP. In this book on NLP said that NLP is the study of excellence. So all you needed to do to be successful is to find something that is excellent, study it, and you can be […]
Embedded Commands
The Magic Of Hidden Directives Embedded commands are perhaps the most powerful secret of covert hypnosis. They are easy to learn and very effective when used correctly. In this post we’ll be going over their basics so you can start using them as quickly as you like. With enough practice, you can layer several […]
Get Rich And Sexy From Public Speaking
Benefits Of Public Speaking – And How To Make It Easy Let’s cut to the chase, shall we? All else equal, having the ability to speak well in public is a benefit, and will be a benefit in nearly every situation. On a meta level, having skills is better than not having skills. One way […]
The Freeloader Problem
Two Sides Of A Deadly Coin Way back in the day, we humans lived in small tribes of a few hundred people. Life was harsh. Getting food was difficult and dangerous. Predators were everywhere, and the food tended to run away. Animals didn’t want to be killed and eaten. Hunter Gather Instincts We humans […]
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 […]
Authority Paradox
The Guy In Charge Said So One of the go-to ways for most of us silly humans to figure out what’s what is to see what somebody in charge says. Study after study shows this. They put ten people in a room, and dump in an unexpected and complicated task. Time after time, people will […]
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 […]
Collapse
Success Rate Of Zero Humans have gone through two types of societal organization. One has been stable, the other has not. In this post, we will endeavor to explain precisely why this second type of society always ends in collapse. It is far beyond the scope to come up with any large scale remedies to […]