Toe Touching https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr18_Post.mp3 Flexibility is important. In the harsh world of being able to touch your toes. And in the metaphorical realm. Alexander the Great, for example, was extremely flexible with his battle strategies. In part, because his army was made up of a bunch of Greek dudes who’d been fighting […]
Out Game Everybody
Many Moves Ahead https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr07_Post.mp4 There’s a common scene in a lot of movies. Sometimes they’re actually playing chess. Other times they’re using chess metaphors. The metaphors are centered around who’s got the best strategies. Like one guy will say, “I’ve got you in five moves.” But then the other guy […]
Your Ancient Reserve Of Ambition
Unknown Extra https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec26_Post.mp4 Once, way back in college, I borrowed my friends motorcycle. On the way back from wherever I was going, I ran out of gas. So I walked back home. My friend asked where his bike was. I explained, and he shook his head. We walked to his […]
Friend Generator Frame
Team Of Experts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec24_Post.mp4 I used to be a huge fan of Michael Crichton books. They all had pretty much the same overall theme. There was some kind of problem that required a scientific solution. And somebody would assemble a group of experts to solve the problem. This same type of […]
The Most Attractive Personality
Accurate Data https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug18_Post.mp4 Marketing studies are difficult. Even more difficult are studies into human physiology of any kind. A true, honest, study must be double blind. This is because we humans communicate a lot, even if we don’t want to. A doctor who KNOWS which are the real pills and which […]
Two Critical Strategies For Life
Two Easy Rules https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun11_Post.mp4 There are two critical ideas for any kind of social success. And when I say social success, I mean ANYTHING that requires a one-on-one conversation. Even if you have the perfect degree, nobody is going to hire you if you come across as a socially inept goof. Even […]
Two Critical Origin Stories
Fear Of Death https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr21_Post.mp4 Milton Erickson was very much like Walter White. Erickson was a real guy, White is a fictional character. Walter White and Breaking Bad are considered top level TV. Walter White has a very compelling character arc. Underachieving guy turns into evil genius. But the arc from […]
Immortal Monkey Apocalypse
Shakespeare Experiment There’s a theory that if you put enough monkeys on an island, each banging away on a typewriter, they’ll eventually produce all the works of Shakespeare. This is true in theory, so long as they bang on a typewriter long enough, a certain percentage of the random stuff they type will make […]
Trial and Error Spices
Cooking Class I took this really strange cooking class several years ago. I don’t remember how I signed up for it, only that I found about it in a way that was different than what you might expect to hear about a cooking class. It wasn’t from a flyer, I didn’t read about it […]
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 […]