The Two Mindsets Of Life There are plenty of ways to categorize things. People who are taller than me, and people who aren’t. People who are older than you, and people who aren’t. Things that are edible, and things that aren’t. Things you can afford, and things you can’t. Carnivores and herbivores. Those with loaded […]
Time Preference Destruction
The Death Of Every Society In a recent post, we talked about the idea of time-preference. How it is the meta skill that is behind every other skill. How the lower your time-preference is, the more easily you can delay gratification. The more you can plan your future instead of living day to day. In […]
Social Media Addiction
Why It Exists And How To Stop It It’s hard for most people to step away from social media for every long. We post things, and we check to see if our posts were liked by others. Virtually all sites that run on user created content leverage some very powerful triggers. Cialdini Is Everywhere […]
Hallucination
The Human Unique Selling Proposition What is our best feature, as humans? Many people like to talk about this, since we are pretty different from all the other animals. Some don’t even like to accept that we are animals, imagining that we are some special beings above the rest. Chimp DNA But there seems […]
The Impossibility Of Non Selfishness
A Useful Model This post will end with a suggestion to be considered. A model through which to observe the world and your own behaviors within it. For some, this suggestion will be rejected out of hand. For others, this suggestion will allow one to make sense of everything. A internal feeling of the pieces […]
Why Power Corrupts
Why Does Absolute Power Corrupt Absolutely? This is one of those things everybody knows. Why is that guy such a horrible leader? Well, he’s got power, and everybody knows that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Most high school kids have to write essays showing why this is true. Or showing examples of why […]
Hero’s Journey
The hero’s journey is a story structure that has perhaps been around since before recorded history. In this post we’ll explore what it is, why it’s so compelling, how it likely came to be, and how you can use this in your every day life. You’ll find that it is a very useful structure […]
Instinct Mismatch Theory
Understand, Manage and Leverage Your Ancient Instincts What does it mean to be human? Where does all our pain or pleasure come from? These questions are deep and philosophical. They are the stuff of religion and metaphysics and other esoteric arts. They can be endless and those discussing these ideas can go round and round […]
Why Money Is So Difficult
Uncovering The Instinctive Truth About Money Everybody wants more money. Rich people want more money. Poor people want more money. You want more money. I want more money. No matter who is asked the question, everybody responds that they would like more money. When they are asked how much, most people, regardless of age or […]
What Is Ego?
Mysteries Of The Ego – Explained Philosophers, doctors and psychologists have attempted to describe what this thing we call the “ego” really is. In this article, we will attempt to understand it from a purely scientific, biological and basic standpoint. The goal is to develop a working knowledge of the ego, so you can be […]
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