Vicious Ladies https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr20_Post.mp3 Lately I’ve been watching some animal vids on YouTube. And not cute fluffy animal vids. Vicious law of the jungle animal vids. For example a bunch of lionesses were hanging around watching a hippo give birth. A long and hard birth. When the hippo was finally finished, […]
Develop Genuine Status
Illogical Humans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr18_Post.mp3 One of the oldest logical fallacies goes by the name, “Post Hoc, Ergo, Propter Hoc.” Which essentially means, “after this, therefore, because of this.” Basically it means this: We silly humans see two things happening in sequence. And we assume the first thing caused the second. We […]
Energy Gradients
No New Energy The first law of thermodynamics says energy cannot be created nor destroyed. The second law of thermodynamics says that entropy must increase. At the same time, there is simple reason for systems, such as planet Earth, that have a consistently decreasing entropy. Money Flows https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar27Loop.mp4 Hedge fund managers, so […]
Nested Feedback Loops
Profit and Loss Model The profit and loss model is a very elegant, very powerful system that is responsible for nearly every invention ever created. Within an honest economic system, which is very rare, if non-existent, the only way a company, no matter the size, can stay in business is to make a profit. […]
Super Genius Strippers
Free Sales Seminar I went to this free seminar near my house a couple of weeks ago. It was a seminar about closing techniques, so it kind of assumed a little bit of previous knowledge about sales. Like most free seminars, it was about two hours of basic information mixed in with promises for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Paradox Of Achievement
Four Minute Mile This is a common story that is told in many forms. It’s commonly uses as a self-help metaphor. An “if you believe it, then you can achieve it,” metaphor. These types of metaphors are used to combat the normal human, “I won’t believe it until I see it” response. Roger Bannister […]
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 […]