No Move https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May16_Post.mp3 Most people are lazy. Or rather, everybody is lazy. This is good. Very good. If our ancestors weren’t lazy, we would have gone extinct. We all have a collection of instincts that motivate us to get the most benefit for the least effort. But we also […]
Effective Social Operator
Not Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan25_Post.mp4 It’s a pretty common idea that people are emotional creatures. This is pretty straightforward when you think of it from an “outside of your own head” perspective. We only developed “rational” thinking a short while ago. Most animals can be trained according to “operant conditioning.” Reward positive behavior, […]
The Dark Triad Of Love
Dark Secrets https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan19_Post.mp4 There’s a few potentially disconcerting ideas when it comes to attraction. For example, there’s the uncomfortable idea that girls go for “bad boy” types when they “should” go for the safer choice. But this is kind of like food. Attraction for people and attraction for food are driven by […]
Rid Yourself of Anger
Recalibrated Instincts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May14_Post.mp4 Imagine two hunters. Two imaginary hunters way back in the days of hunter gathers. Where humans lived for 200,000 years. Where all our modern instincts were calibrated. Anyhow, here’s the mental experiment. Both guys throw their spears at a deer. Both miss. One guy reflects […]
Thought Calibration
Well Practiced Once there was a spiritualist. A very profound thinker. A deep practitioner of meditation. He ate carefully calibrated foods. And thought carefully calibrated thoughts. He lived in his basement. His invents paid him handsomely and automatically. Focus Only Inward https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec25Loop.mp4 Everything was set to autopilot. […]
Fibonacci Food Theory
Watch How You Chew Recently some health experts, a few nutritional experts and some psychologists have done some interesting experiments regarding how we eat. It turns out that there are a lot more variables into maintaining a healthy mind and body than most believe. For example, chewing only on one side of your […]
Termite Cavities
Food Hypnosis Supermarkets, or rather their marketing departments, have long known how to covertly influence people. Sometimes based on the layout of the supermarket, or the way the food is chemically altered to become more addictive. But recently they have been experimenting with new technology that is far more dangerous. Natural Taste […]
Alpha Male Productivity
Get Some If you don’t have access to oxygen for more than a few minutes, you will die. If you don’t have access to water for more than a few days, you will die. If you don’t have access to food for more than a few weeks or months, depending on how much […]
Trading Fear For Money
Horrible Horror Movie I saw this really messed up horror movie the other night. It was about this guy who was an insane killer, that pretty much lived inside of a hallucination. It started out with this guy jogging down some country road. And then a guy pulled up in a van, […]
Toothless Nightmare
How Many Cavities So the other day I went to the dentist. I hadn’t been to the dentist in a long long time. Normally this hasn’t been so bad. Occasionally I would get these pains in my teeth. Usually they would go away in a couple days. While I have the pain I would […]