Fumbling https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept22_Post.mp3 I don’t like to turn on the bathroom light at night. So when I wake up, and need to use the restroom, I kind of feel my way in. If I turn the light on, it might wake me up and I won’t be able to go back to sleep. […]
Destroy All Enemies
Fall On Your Face https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept20_Post.mp3 The best learning comes from failure. Nobody likes to hear this. Everybody is a sucker for a sure fire, guaranteed system. The one magic collection of words to say to get them to fall in love with you. The one magic sales pitch to get anybody […]
Balance Sex Energy
Instinct Management https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug28_Post.mp3 Most success in life comes from managing your ancient instincts. If you want to have a decent looking body, you need to exercise when you don’t feel like exercising. You need to not eat, or at least not eat as much as you want to, when you are hungry. […]
Better Than Now
Jumbled Salads https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr15_Post.mp4 The words we use are very important. Very few realize this. The human experience is pretty basic. From an objective, engineering standpoint. We want things. We will always want things. And these things are only under a few categories. Love, money, sex, health, social validation. […]
Broke Samurais and Wealthy Romans
PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
The Edison Metaphor
The Light Bult Invention There’s this really cool story about Edison. He was trying to invent the lightbulb. The lightbulb is very simple concept and whoever could come up with that first would stand to make a lot of money. That’s why Edison was so interested in creating a product. If you could make […]
The Necessity Of Risk
New Teaching Job I have a friend who just got this job at a high school. He’s a math teacher and when he went in for the interview he was a little bit nervous. There were so many other applicants applying for this job. It’s only a part-time job, but when he got the […]
Paradox Of Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]
Might Makes Right
Survival Of The Fittest Once upon a time there was no life on Earth. Then something happened (aliens, meteor, lightning, hand of God, etc.) and there was a life form. Maybe a bunch. But they were very simple. They needed to eat, or get some kind of energy from their environment. And for some weird […]
Trial and Error
Modeling Success Is Impossible One of the cornerstones of NLP is modeling. In fact, the entirety of NLP was created through modeling. The linguistic-persuasion aspect was modeled from the top therapists at the time. NLP if often referred to as the “study of excellence.” Which means they find people doing excellent things, copy them, and […]