Confirmation Bias One of the most common biases is confirmation bias. We use it to choose our news sources, our friends, and the kinds of ideas we create and believe about ourselves. One way we can describe our confirmation bias is like an unconscious, instinctive, echo chamber generator. Thought Seed Finder https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec18Loop.mp4 […]
Inoculation Against Demons
Economic Article I read an interesting article in an economic blog recently and it says that there is a sharp increase, or there has been a sharp increase in the number of exorcisms in the recent years. It had a couple of explanations as to why this is. The most common explanation is that […]
Think Your Way Out
Gym Buddy There’s a guy that I talked to the gym that’s a personal trainer. I usually see them sometimes when I’m working out and I talk to him sometimes. I’m always interested in his strategy for getting new clients. He says when it comes to being a personal trainer the strategy to get […]
Thoughts Becoming Horrible Things
Hiking and Backpacking I like to go hiking. There’s basically two types of hiking. There is day hiking and there’s backpacking. Backpacking is fantastic but it takes a lot of time and it usually costs a lot of money. You need to drive somewhere far away needed to find a mountain range you can […]
Anti-Memory Energy
Pick Up Driver The first job I ever got in college was as a delivery driver. When I was in high school I had a job delivering pizzas so I figured this would be a familiar job. It wasn’t really delivery driver it was more of a pickup driver. I worked for this charity […]
Ancient Frame Battle
Meaning Is Subjective Most farmers would agree that rain is a good thing. Most elementary school kids on a Saturday morning would agree that rain is a bad thing. Meaning is something that is very subjective, very flexible and very relative. One of the best skills you can develop is the ability to consciously […]
Remembering Lost Memories
Sudden Illness Once upon a time I had a family member that had an unexpected medical situation. This unexpected medical situation required an unexpected medical procedure that would have this person in ICU for a couple days in the hospital for another week after that. Myself and a few other family members want to […]
The Necessity Of Risk
New Teaching Job I have a friend who just got this job at a high school. He’s a math teacher and when he went in for the interview he was a little bit nervous. There were so many other applicants applying for this job. It’s only a part-time job, but when he got the […]
Paradox Of Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]
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 […]