Cialdini Laws A very powerful Cialdini law of influence is one we create ourselves, and operates on ourselves, but outside of our conscious awareness. Researchers demonstrated this by going into a neighborhood they’d split into two halves. The first half they went through and asked everybody if they could but a huge, very […]
Planting Mind Seeds
Genetic Modification Ever since the agricultural revolution ten thousand years ago, humans have been slowly applying genetic modification to our environment. Up until very recently, this was done by selective breeding. By carefully replanting the plumpest fruits from an orchard, which, over the centuries, creates plumper and plumper fruit. This is why […]
Acoustic Resonance Brainwashing
Greek Plays I would have been cool to be alive back in ancient Greece when they had local plays put on at local amphitheaters. From today’s perspective, this doesn’t seem very special. This doesn’t seem very extraordinary. But today, we have access to tons of material to satisfy our story instinct. […]
Altering Flows Of History
One Day In The Laundry Room… The other day I was sitting in my laundry room. I had just put my clothes into the dryer and I noticed a book lying face down on the table in front of me. I could tell by the back of the book that it was some type […]
Angel of Peace
Bad Mood Couple of nights ago I was in a fairly foul mood. I didn’t know why and I wasn’t really interested in finding out why. I wanted to ignore my problems by focusing on something else or what to my local bar. I didn’t even plan on talking to anybody. I just sat […]