Surprise! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb07_Post.mp3 Once I went to dinner with a friend. I ordered a scotch on the rocks. While I was waiting, the waitress brought me a glass of water. Or, a glass of what I thought was water. But it was gin. Pure gin over ice. Taking that first […]
True Independence
Childish Minds https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb06_Post.mp3 When we are children, we have a simple strategy for getting what we need. Keep asking until somebody gives it to us. Then we make a transition. Or we used to, way back in the caveman days. The transition meant a shift in how we got our needs […]
Mechanical Success
Deserving https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan29_Post.mp3 There’s a famous scene in the movie, “Unforgiven.” When Clint Eastwood puts behind his passive ways and becomes a stone cold killer. They killed his friend, so he kills everybody. Just before he’s about to blast Gene Hackman in the face with a shotgun, Hackman says: “I don’t deserve […]
Become A Linguistic Experimenter
Magic Words https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug07_Post.mp4 The power of conversational hypnosis is profound. Far beyond how most people think. Invented by a doctor to help people. He didn’t invent it in a vacuum. He modified the ancient art of storytelling. We listen to stories and are motivated. With mass media storytelling, the […]
The Deserving Paradox
Lazy Monkey People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug06_Post.mp4 Humans are basically lazy. That’s a good thing. All animals have evolved a max ROI instinct. To spend as little effort as possible, to get as much return as possible. Monkeys climb the shortest trees to get the fattest bananas. Birds of prey get the fattest […]
Release Your Inner Conqueror
Imaginary Rope https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug03_Post.mp4 You’ve probably heard the story of the elephant. The one where they tied up an elephant when he was a kid. And by the time he was a big elephant, his trainers didn’t need the rope any more. He’d been conditioned that going too far out would restrict him. […]