Butterfly Man https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb21_Post.mp3 There was this old school philosopher in ancient China. He’s the guy who came up with the butterfly-dream metaphor. He was dreaming he was a butterfly. But then he woke up. But then he thought: How do I know if I’m a man who was dreaming he […]
Chase Your Dreams
Continuous Improvement https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb11_Post.mp3 A split test is a very useful mental tool. Split testing is generally a marketing term. Say you’ve got a website selling shoes. And it’s converting at 3%. For every 100 visitors, you get three sales. But you’d like to increase the conversations. A very simple […]
Dissolve Social Anxiety
No Signals https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec08_Post.mp3 One common idea from “self help” is that the wake doesn’t drive the boat. This is a kind of cool sounding metaphor, but it doesn’t help much. The things that happened to us in our past have a huge impact on how we see and interpret the future. In […]
Become A Driving Force
Not Much Choice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct17_Post.mp3 Way back in the day, a normal life went through some basic phases. We didn’t have a choice. We were very much constrained by our environment. We were born and we were kids for a while. We were utterly dependent on adults. We asked, and if […]
Ambition Energy
Food Chasers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug25_Post.mp3 A long, long time ago, we were persistence hunters. Or so some anthropologists believe. This is why we have arched feet and relatively hairless, sweaty bodies. The arched feet help us run for a long time without damaging our joints. Kind of like shock absorbers. Our sweaty […]
Edge Domination
Anarchy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun28_Post.mp3 Once a friend of mine and I in high school decided to rebel against the system. We were going to get up and get ready to leave algebra class, but a minute before the bell rang. We stood up, expecting a fight from the teacher. But what we got was […]
Self Aware Genius
The I Inside https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun17_Post.mp3 What is the purpose of self awareness? I know, weird question. But what is it, exactly? A long end game of universal evolution? So we, as part of the universe, can be aware of itself? What about from an evolutionary standpoint? Once upon a time, […]
Your Greatest Gift
Brain Evolution https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun03_Post.mp3 Once upon a time, humans, or rather proto humans, had to chase animals. They call it persistence hunting. They think maybe this is why we evolved arched feet and sweaty hairless bodies. We are one of the few animals that can bleed off body heat by sweating. Most […]
Eliminate One-Itis
Gotta Have It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May19_Post.mp3 We humans tend to develop one-itis for a lot of things. This is normally something reserved for guys and girls. You interact with a lady for a little bit. Not very much. Just enough to get her number. Or get to know her just a little […]
Instinct Management
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 […]
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