Never Assume https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug05_Post.mp4 If you study game theory, one of the prime directives is to never assume what the other person’s intentions are. In sports, teams and players do everything they can to fake out their opponents. Even in chess, there are plenty of strategies based on trickery. Why do we humans […]
Two Ends To Every Story
Sociopath In Training Once there was a reckless student. He didn’t like taking responsibility. He didn’t think about other people’s feelings. After he finished high school. He wanted to study medicine. He wanted to become a surgeon. Not because he wanted to help people. But because he wanted […]
Multi Level Deception
Gorgeous Neighbor I have this next-door neighbor that is absolutely gorgeous. I mean she’s about 5’10’, 5’11’, gorgeous body. She could be a fitness model. Nice natural breasts, gorgeous face, blue eyes, blonde hair. I finally got the nerve to start a conversation with her in the laundry room. I was absolutely stunned for […]
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. […]
Conspiracy Theory
Murder Game I’ve always liked to play card games. Especially when I was a kid I like to play card games. Most card games are based somewhat on deception and conspiring against your opponents. One of my favorite card games that I played when I was a kid was called murder. It’s not really […]
Real Magic
Summer School I have a friend who volunteers at a local community center. She asked me if I would help her teach some kids summer school. Some magic tricks during summer school. It took me about 10 minutes of research to realize that if I tried to teach these kids any kind of sleight-of-hand […]
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
I once had this teacher in college that used to teach by deception. She was a young teacher, and I suppose she was trying out “new” ideas of teaching, and trying to get her students to learn the subject matter in interesting ways. Often times she would create these “scenarios” where the students ended up […]