Not Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May29_Post.mp4 Humans love to believe in our own logical decision making. But in reality, most of us are driven by emotions. Unless you are making a tough decision about a big purchase, like a house, then your decisions are emotional. If we were purely logical, we wouldn’t have evolved. […]
Sony Seduction Success Strategy
Events And Meaning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May16_Post.mp4 A very common idea, found in plenty of religions and philosophies is the idea of meaning. Here we are inside our brains. We interact with the world and get a result. Then we have an emotional response, good or bad. Because this happens so quickly, we assume […]
Create A Virtuous Social Cycle
Reverse Cycles https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May15_Post.mp4 There’s a theory in both history and economics of virtuous and vicious cycles. That, generally speaking, when everything is growing, there are plenty of virtuous cycles. And when any society, business cycle, or economy reaches a kind of “tipping point” the virtuous cycles slowly shift into vicious cycles. For […]
Rid Yourself of Anger
Recalibrated Instincts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May14_Post.mp4 Imagine two hunters. Two imaginary hunters way back in the days of hunter gathers. Where humans lived for 200,000 years. Where all our modern instincts were calibrated. Anyhow, here’s the mental experiment. Both guys throw their spears at a deer. Both miss. One guy reflects […]
Leverage Your Two Powerful Biases
Inside vs. Outside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May13_Post.mp4 Human nature is pretty simple from an engineering standpoint. Very simple. But looking out into the world through our subjective experience is very, very complicated. Or it SEEMS complicated. Part of this is our unique human ability of meta cognition. Thinking about thinking. Talking about […]
Be A Highly Demanded Human
Descriptive Nature https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May11_Post.mp4 I’ve always been interested in how things work. As far back as I can remember, I would take things apart, as much as I could, just to see what was going on. As an adult, during the golden age of information, there are plenty of online educational resources for learning. […]
Become A Linguistic Assassin
Magic Words https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr24_Post.mp4 The very first book on NLP was “The Structure of Magic.” How NLP was “discovered” is pretty interesting. It happened way back in the “golden times” of therapy. When more and more people were OK with going to therapy. A growing demand. But BEFORE the insurance industry […]
How To Obliterate Any Idea
Thoughts And Ideas https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr23_Post.mp4 The structure of language is related to the structure of thought. How, specifically, this works is anybody’s guess. What language is, specifically, isn’t really known. Sure, we have language. Language does have a structure. Verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc. All the worlds languages have these same […]
Custom Programmed Confirmation Bias
Deeper Meaning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr02_Post.mp4 A common phrase from self help is: What the thinker thinks, the prover proves. This is essentially a description of our confirmation bias. What we think is true, our confirmation bias will point it out. Imagine that your confirmation bias is like a very loyal employee. Only […]
Two Sides Of Insanity
Therapist Disaster Once there was a women. Who felt she was sliding deeper into insanity. But she also knew that people that are crazy aren’t worried about being crazy. Because that’s what insanity is. Having a self generated idea about reality that isn’t correct. So she went to see a […]
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