Nobody Knows Why https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov01_Post.mp3 According To Dr. Cialdini, in his book, “Influence: Science and Practice,” whenever we choose to do something, it’s never a conscious decision. He’s more interested in marketing than psychology. Or for him, psychology is a means to the end of more effective marketing. Anyhow, this is the sequence […]
Master Of Puppets
Self Awareness? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct31_Post.mp3 Here is a very interesting, and very ancient question. Of all the stuff humans have accomplished over the past few thousand years, is self awareness necessary? This is an ancient philosophical question going as far back as Plato. Another way to put it. Suppose you could build a […]
Hack Their Brain
Emotional People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct30_Post.mp3 Humans are not Vulcans. We are not angels, we are not robots. We are emotionally driven creatures. Self aware, talking primates. And a long, long time ago, Mother Nature had to make a decision. We could either have accurate and slow brains. Or inaccurate and fast […]
Express The Real You
Secret Penguin https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct29_Post.mp3 I recently read a quote from Colin Farrell about playing the Penguin in the latest Batman movie. He said he was worried at first. That all the makeup would be too constricting. But he said it was the opposite. That it was very, very freeing. Because it […]
Push Button Love
No Randomness https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct28_Post.mp3 Suppose you wanted a bag of chips from a vending machine. So you put in the amount of money. You pushed the appropriate button. But instead of a bag of chips, you got a pack of donuts. This would clearly be an error. No vending machine that […]
Live Like A God
Weird Metaphor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct27_Post.mp3 Imagine the following scenario. It’s very strange, but hang in there. It’s got a pretty good punch line. Suppose there were very, very few people who could actually play music. These guys that could play music were treated like absolute royalty. I don’t mean super groups like […]
Godfather Principle
Three Dudes https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct26_Post.mp3 What does Vito Corleone, Charlie Wilson, and FDR all have in common? They all used the same basic persuasion principle. Vito Corleone, of course, was a fictional character. But in the story, he helped out plenty of his Italian immigrant friends in the neighborhood. So later, when he […]
Never Do Anything Wrong Again
Kids And Cheats https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr18_Post.mp4 When I was a kid, video arcades were popular. Put in a quarter, and play as long as you could. Many games had cheats. Of course, this was long before the Internet, so to get a cheat you had to know somebody. Otherwise, you had to learn […]
Secret People Training Skills
Cooperating Species https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr17_Post.mp4 A fascinating subject in science is co-evolution. It’s when two completely unrelated species develop a kind of mutually beneficial, overlapping selfishness. The most common example is bees and flowers. Once upon a time (metaphorically) there were tons of different kinds of bees and tons of different kinds of flowers. […]
The Pirate Treasure Attraction Pattern
Treasure Map Theory https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr16_Post.mp4 Things look differently based on what kind of time frame you have. This is kind of like those videos that start way out in space. And then they keep zooming in, until you’re looking at the molecular structure of a bug’s eye. Things within a one or two […]