Lucky Read https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug15_Post.mp4 Once I was playing flag football with some buddies. I was on defense. My job was to count three Mississippi’s and run in at the QB. But when I got to three, something felt a bit off. So I just stood there, not sure what to do. […]
Las Vegas Investment Strategy
Up And Down https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July04_Post.mp4 Many people experience the yo-yo diet syndrome. Not just in dieting, but in any area of self improvement. For the diet, it’s pretty simple. You look at yourself in the mirror, and you are disgusted. So you create a ton of motivation to get rid of that […]
How To Thrive In Clown World
What Happened Next? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun18_Post.mp4 There a pretty decent series called “Band of Brothers.” A series about a few guy guys in WWII in Europe near the end. How their relationships were formed, etc. An interesting thing about this is the end credits. A few movies about real stories have these at […]
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 […]
Three Levels of One-Itis
One Itis Feels Good https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May05_Post.mp4 Remember what it was like when you had your first crush? Or even a recent one of that’s easier. Even a fictional character will do. When I was a kid, I had plenty of crushes. One on my second grade teacher. One a few fictional […]
One Phrase To Rule Them All
Words And Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr25_Post.mp4 The power of language is the other side of the power of thought. Nobody, even the world’s best scientists are sure how, specifically, they are connected. People do make assumptions about you if you don’t say much. Beyond language, we still have a lot of ways to measure […]
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 […]
Scarcity Pizza
Pizza Shop I used to have this job in college at a pizza shop. There was an old retired guy working, and he loved it when tons of customers would come in and we’d be slammed. There’s a theory that we subconsciously use smell to qualify potential romantic partners. Sniffing Out DNA […]
Specialty Coffee and the Speed of Light
Shared Molecules I remember the first chemistry class I took in college. It was in one of those big auditorium type classrooms. The professor comes in and the first thing he said was to close your eyes. To think about somebody you admire. They can be alive, they can be dead, but they have […]
Duck Pond Hallucination
Shut Up! The other day I was sitting in my apartment and I noticed a lot of noise suddenly coming from next-door. My first response was to get very very angry then I remembered that somebody had slipped a piece of paper through my mail slot a week or so ago. I looked through […]