Split Test https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec20_Post.mp3 Compare two situations. Two identical people. Same jobs, same incomes, live in the same type of neighborhood. Only one difference. One guy uses credit cards like there is no tomorrow. The other guy ONLY uses his debit cards. Or to make this metaphor even sillier, imagine […]
Ancient Life Energy
Money And Time https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug26_Post.mp3 Imagine having a dollar. And you have two choices with that dollar. Choice one is to spend it on something. You buy that something, enjoy that something, and then you have a memory of enjoying that something. One kind of weird way to describe this is turning […]
Sharpen Your Thinking Skills
Long Game https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug20_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting theory posed by an economist. A couple of economists actually. The first compared life before agriculture to life after agriculture. When you are a hunter gatherer, you are always living in the now. If you are hungry, you go out and kill something now and […]
Dominate Crowds
An Educated Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun16_Post.mp3 One of my favorite movies is Tombstone. And one of my favorite scenes is the scene in the casino. When Johnny Ringo was trying to show off by twirling his gun around. And then Doc Holiday countered by twirling his drinking cup around. But then they started […]
Pareto Game
80-20 https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr05_Post.mp4 The Pareto Principle is a vicious idea. A horrific idea. It says that 20 percent of any system does eighty percent of the work. What the heck does this mean? Suppose you counted all the players and all the points scored in the NBA for 2021. You’d find […]
Your Secret Competitive Advantage
Lucky Read https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug15_Post.mp4 Once I was playing flag football with some buddies. I was on defense. My job was to count three Mississippi’s and run in at the QB. But when I got to three, something felt a bit off. So I just stood there, not sure what to do. […]
Become A Master of Time
Slow People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug13_Post.mp4 The transition from hunting to farming was very, very slow. At least 5,000 years. The last ice age ended about 11,000 years ago. The very first pre-Sumerian cities didn’t pop up until about 5,000 BC or so. What took them so long? The lifestyle of a hunter-gather […]
Change Your Time Space
Lucky People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11_Post.mp4 There are plenty different reasons for success. Most of which, are not under our control. This is something that’s hard to accept. But random luck has a lot more to do with our lives than anything else. At least for most people. The movie “The Social Network” […]
Thrive On Clown Show Planet
Rulers and Workers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug09_Post.mp4 One of my favorite lines is from an old Clint Eastwood movie. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. A couple of guys chasing after some gold hidden somewhere. The good guy was Clint Eastwood. He and the ugly guy were more or less working together. […]
Pleasures Of The Flesh
Can’t Go Lower I have a friend who’d hit rock bottom. A bunch of horrible things happened in a row. First, his girlfriend, who he thought would eventually become his wife, dumped him. It turned out she was having an affair with his best friend who he thought he was going to […]