Set Up Is Best Part I have this friend who loves to create these very deep, very well thought out, very long game pranks. His last one was one he pulled on his toastmasters group. First, he showed up at a new club. He always wore a suit, he always gave very […]
Circle Origin Story
Trigonometry is Magic One of the coolest discoveries in mathematics is that of trigonometry. Since cycles are a deep part of the natural world, and trigonometry deals in cycles, its discovery helped humans to understand a lot more than they did previously. It all started by wondering about the mathematical descriptions of the […]
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 […]
Peanut Butter Industrial Complex
Carnegie Origin Story How To Win Friends and Influence People is one of the best self help book written for a lot of reasons. Carnegie realized a long time before wrote the book that the quickest way to be able to increase social confidence was through public speaking. But not being able to […]
Cause Effect Time Cats
Minor League Museum I went down to a local museum. It’s not a big museum, and they don’t have their own stuff. They host traveling exhibits, but not famous ones. Nothing like King Tut or the Dead Sea Scrolls. They host smaller and lesser known exhibits that travel around. Still pretty interesting. They’re not […]
Over The Line
Weekend Plans A few years ago me and some friends were trying to figure out what to do for the weekend. It was Friday, and were at work. We decided to play softball. We each thought of two other people we could recruit, giving us a total of 18. We decided to meet the next […]
Art Gallery Seduction
Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
Magic Love Money Algorithm
Library Trip The other day I went to my local library for a visit. I like to drop by sometimes because I like books and I like quiet spaces. Except when I went into the library there was some kind of a commotion. Not commotion more of a gathering. I eased up to the […]
Queen Of A Lesser Kingdom
New Lady at Toastmasters A new woman came to my Toastmasters recently. She’s a very interesting combination or she has a very interesting combination of both confidence and anxiety. When she talks about normal things she’s very very confident, in fact she’s the most confident person I’ve seen in a very very long time. […]
Interview King Maker
Horrifying Class I took this college class ones that sounded on paper like it would be a good idea but it turned out to be the most terrifying class I would ever take in my life. It was billed as a interview skills class where you would learn how to answer the most […]
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