Fighting People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr08_Post.mp3 Humans are naturally competitive. We have to be. It’s in our nature. Nearly all mammals live within a hierarchy. This is the most efficient way. Most of these hierarchies are based on DNA. Like a regular gorilla can’t just “decide” to become a silverback. He’s […]
Secret Brain
Leaders and Followers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr05_Post.mp3 There are those who make things happen. Then there are those who watch things happen. Then there are those who wander around cluelessly wondering what keeps happening. Some people are very lucky. The other day I was watching this TV show. One rich girl fell in […]
Recalibrated Ambition
Know Thyself https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb14_Post.mp3 Carl Jung is famous for saying: “Unless you make the unconscious conscious, it will drive your life and you will call it fate.” What does this mean? We have plenty of unconscious things driving our behavior. Some we pick up through childhood. Irrational fears, social anxiety, etc. […]
Maximize Your Profits
Half Dead Cat https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec19_TT.mp3 What do Led Zeppelin, The Big Bang, Schrodinger’s Cat, and Capitalism all have in common? They all were originally put-down’s given to an idea that were later accepted as a badge of honor by the idea originators. Jimmy Page was at a party talking about putting a band together. […]
Dominate With Patience
Embrace Competition https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct18_Post.mp3 If you want to get more than others, you need to do more than others. This is an uncomfortable truth most people don’t like to hear. When it comes to personal development, most people very much like to believe in magic. The magic chant you can say to get […]
Become A Driving Force
Not Much Choice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct17_Post.mp3 Way back in the day, a normal life went through some basic phases. We didn’t have a choice. We were very much constrained by our environment. We were born and we were kids for a while. We were utterly dependent on adults. We asked, and if […]
Small Steps To Huge Success
Metaphor Confusion https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct16_Post.mp3 It’s very easy to misunderstand things when we speak in metaphors. Metaphors are descriptions of complex underlying things. They are far from complete. Like the famous “red car effect.” You buy a red car, which sends a signal to your brain. Red cars are important. This […]
Build Relentless Ambition
Wrong Drives https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct15_Post.mp3 Most, if not all, modern problems, can be described in terms of “instinct mismatch.” Our mind-body systems were not calibrated for the modern world. We were calibrated to live in a much different environment. One instinct that helped us back then but can utterly destroy us today is the […]
Half Life Motivation
Money Train https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct14_Post.mp3 If you can become a motivational speaker, even to a relatively small audience, you can make a ton of money. Why? A couple of reasons. One, motivational speakers tend to bring out our best selves. Our ideal selves. We feel really good in the presence of a […]
Willpower Myth
Maps And Territories https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct12_Post.mp3 We humans tend to use a lot of metaphors. Way more than we realize. Metaphors are embedded into our language. Whenever we use an intangible noun in regular speech, we MUST treat it like it’s a real thing. Like a couple who is “going through” some problems. […]