When It’s Easy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan07_Post.mp3 Imagine this crazy kind of diet plan. You look in the mirror, and promise yourself you’ll get a six pack. But you don’t change your behavior. You just kind of hope for the best. Sure, when you’re feeling it, you exercise. But not every day. […]
Hero Desires
Love Generation https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan03_Post.mp3 Think about some of the things in life that you want. Your own unique, internal descriptions of the things we all want. For example, what is your ideal job? An ideal expression of your skills for a decent salary? How about your ideal house? Two story one […]
Outcome Independent Life
Flow State https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec05_Post.mp3 Being outcome independent is a very, very pleasant state of mind. We all want more or less the same stuff. More money, better relationships, better jobs, etc. But getting those things is the difficult part. You may even say this is our “purpose.” To keep searching for […]
They’ll Pursue You
Shooting Only https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec04_Loop.mp3 The idea of being “outcome independent” has been around for a long time. At least a couple thousand years. It’s one of the prime recommendations of stoicism. To focus on the shooting of the arrow, and not on the hitting of the target. This is exactly why they […]
Predict Everybody’s Personality
Similar Structure https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec03_Post.mp3 There’s an old video on YouTube called the “Axis of Awesome” or something like that. It is a demonstration that nearly all popular western music in the past couple decades have the SAME basic chord progression. If you study the structure of stories, you’ll find the same thing. On […]
Easy Love Strategies
You Get Me https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec02_Post.mp3 One very common movie trope is when two people fall in love. And one of the characters, usually the lady, feels that the guy really “gets” her. This is a very special feeling. We have all been programmed to be a little bit gun shy when expressing ourselves. […]
Love Mind Drug
Cult Sex https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov30_Post.mp3 I’ve always been interested in cults. So I watch any kind of cult documentary that comes my way. Recently, I watched one about a “sex cult.” The cult was run by a woman in San Francisco. She had a kind of weird take on the female orgasm. […]
Easy Outcome Independence
Self Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov26_Post.mp3 One of the recent breakthroughs in computer learning was deep learning. The specific program was called AlphaZero, by company DeepMind, which was later bought by Google. How, specifically, did it learn? By playing against itself. All they did was program it with the rules of chess. And […]
Master The Bleeding Edge
First Steps https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov23_Post.mp3 A long, long time ago, I wrestled. Way back in high school. And one thing our coach drilled into us was to have a sequence of opening moves. So as soon as the ref said “go,” we would fire off these two moves as quickly as we could. […]
The Most Attractive Trait
Unpredictable https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July25_Post.mp3 Chaos theory is an interesting concept. Discovered a few decades ago. Chaos theory is why they can’t predict the weather. A weather system is an interdependent system. Five or so polynomial, inter-dependent variables. Poly who? Like X is NOT a polynomial variable. It is a linear […]