Chaos Birds https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr29_Post.mp3 A murmuration of starlings is a pretty cool thing. This when a hundred or so birds start to fly around in circles. Not really circles, but in a kind of relatively small space. Compared to the sky. Where the birds are making all these cool shapes that keep […]
Leverage Human Biases
Filter People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Feb27_Post.mp4 Humans have tons of biases. These are generally thought to be bad. Things that are somehow “wrong” with us. But these were very useful. These still are very useful. One common “bias” is we tend to assume we have much more agency than we really do. […]
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 […]
Cooking Cult
Cooking Class I took a cooking class a few months ago. I met a woman there that started telling me about the class and the instructor. Then she told me this was the ninth time she’d taken this same class with the same teacher. Meta Study https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4 A recent psychological meta study […]
Bias Decoupling Strategy
Fringe Mind Theory I saw this really interesting lecture the other day at a local junior college near by where my friends sister used to live. This guy has a couple PhD’s, and he’s written a few books, but he’s kind of a fringe scientist in the field of evolutionary neuro-psychology. His basic […]
Multi Levels Of Rapport
The Most Powerful Skill Rapport is extremely powerful. The more rapport you have the less you need any other sales techniques. The problem with rapport is that it is very easy to forget. The reason it is so easy to forget is because everybody knows about it and it is so easy to learn. […]
Mind Illusions
Young Magician I have a neighbor and her son is in fifth grade. Lately he’s been practicing these card tricks, these magic tricks, and he’s getting pretty good. He’s got a very good little magician’s pattern going on. So far most of the tricks he’s been doing are called self-working card tricks. These are […]
Cause and Effect
The Mystery Of The Human Mind One of the most confusing things, (or maybe not so confusing since we think we understand it and we really don’t) is the idea of cause and effect. On one hand, it seems simple. We see it happening all the time. It’s the one aspect of science we can […]