Eyes Of The Holder https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May17_Post.mp4 I remember one interesting idea from way back in college. I took a creative writing class. And one of the things the professor said has stuck with me ever since. He said that once we “release” any piece of writing, it no longer belongs to us. […]
Show Them How Great You Are
Float Like A Butterfly https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr10_Post.mp4 I saw a clip online the other day. Of Muhammad Ali in one of his fights. He was standing in the corner, arms wide, holding the ropes on either side of him. Leaving himself absolutely wide open. The other guy took at least 10 swipes at […]
Unlock Your Ancient Super Powers
Intelligent Design? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr08_Post.mp4 Whoever made us humans put a lot of thought into it. God, aliens, biologically driven natural selection, whoever or whatever. They knew what we were doing. One thing that we have that no other living creatures has is language. Sure, plenty of other animals can transmit basic information […]
Instinctive Sex Programming
Meandering Lecture I went to see this lecture recently by a psychologist. She was applying theories of evolutionary psychology to sales, to leverage our ancient social instincts to more easily make money. Her theory was that everything is, at its core, a kind of frame battle. And that by understanding the deep […]
Alchemist Cult of Metallurgy
Novel Writing Secrets If you were to decide to write a novel, so you become famous, or maybe if you only wanted to become rich, you’d have unlimited options. But your unlimited options would necessarily be constrained within common story structure. There’s basically seven story types, 14 archetypes for the good guy, 14 […]
Assertive Telepathy
Blender Shopping I went blender shopping a couple weeks ago and I was completely flabbergasted at the different kinds of blenders they had available. One on end of the blender spectrum, they were old school types that were very manual. On the other end, were extremely sophisticated smart blenders that not only had […]
Slippery Slope Dream Archetypes
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 […]