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 […]
Social Proof Frame Strength
Persuasion Experiments There have been a lot of cool experiments done to demonstrate the various triggers of influence that operate outside of our conscious awareness. In a social proof experiment, they had a guy stand on a corner, and stare up into an empty sky, but pretending that he was looking at something incredibly […]
Nerf Brain Physics
Friendly Dive Bar I was out of town with a couple of friends. We were sitting in this dive bar, kind of small, but a pretty friendly atmosphere. All of a sudden this train went by, the entire bar started shaking, and the bartender started toss out these Nerf basketballs to everybody and […]
White Bear Triangles
Geometry Origin Story Euclid was an old school mathematician who came up with several geometric principles that still hold true today. Many of these are intuitive, and Euclid came up with these ideas simply by imagination. And many of these seem very true, without needing any proof. If you were to take […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
NAWALT – Red vs. Blue Pill
Red Pill Beliefs There are a lot of ideas recently associated with Red Pill. When it comes to male-female relations, a very common idea is that women are very similar. That women are hypergamous and women will always be looking to move up a level, so to speak. The opposite of this […]
Sex Beliefs and Social Status
Young Anthropologist There was this young female anthropologist during Victorian England that went on an expedition by herself to some island in the South Seas to study the people that lived in the South Seas. The people that lived in the South Seas had dealt with British people before and they could sort of […]
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