Lucky Boy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar10_Post.mp4 There’s a famous story about the farmer and his three sons. One son finds a horse. His neighbors say he’s lucky. The farmer says maybe. Then his son breaks his leg while trying to tame the horse. The neighbors say he’s unlucky. The farmer says maybe. […]
Walk Up Rocks
Rock Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar09_Post.mp4 Once a I went rock climbing with a friend. A long time ago. And climbs are rated kind of like Earthquakes. On a log scale. So a 6.0 climb is twice as hard as a 5.0 climb. And at the time, I felt comfortable on a 5.5 […]
Cookies Kids And Cubes
Explain Yourself https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar08_Post.mp4 I heard an interesting story once. A guy was teaching a seminar. And asked how many sides does a cube have. One guy raised his hand. “Two,” he said. “Explain yourself,” said the instructor. “Inside and outside” he replied “Fantastic. Anybody else?” Said the instructor. […]
Become King Of Earth
Everywhere https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan10_Post.mp4 One of the most important things to a fish is the thing they cannot see. They focus on food and predators and making more fish. They are surrounded by water. Water to fish is like the air to humans. It is so ever present it’s easy to take it […]
Profit From Human Nature
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. […]
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