Scariest Face Ever https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug19_Post.mp3 A gorilla is a pretty scary looking animal. If you were out on afternoon stroll and you found yourself face to face with a gorilla, you couldn’t do much. You couldn’t run, or fight, or slowly slink away and go in the opposite direction. Your only hope would […]
Easy Public Speaking
Public Horror https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug15_Post.mp3 Imagine two different kinds of public speaking situations. One is horrifying and would give us all nightmares. The other is fun and enjoyable, and everybody would love doing. First is the horrifying scenario. You are up for the job of a lifetime. Massive pay. Massive benefits. […]
Unhelpful Nice Behavior
Water and Ice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug05_Post.mp3 Life is filled with paradoxes. According to the harsh rules of economics, everything costs something. Plenty of philosophy and poetry is filled with ideas of expecting one thing, and getting something else. The entire history of government involvement in an otherwise smoothly functioning economy is filled with examples […]
Natural Game Frame
Objective Spectrum https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July23_Post.mp3 Things look much differently from an outside, objective standpoint. Compared to a subjective, inside the situation standpoint. Here comes a horrible example, but here we go. If you are in an abusive relationship, it’s hard to see how bad it is from the inside. Whereas everybody on the […]
Unsung Hero Love
Two Strong Frames https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July14_Post.mp3 Holding a strong frame is a very, very valuable skill. Perhaps THE most valuable skill. We can consider two different types of people who have strong frames. On one side, you’ve got cult leaders, self help gurus and politicians. Guys that have kind of squishy ideas, but […]
Protect Your Territory
Monkey People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun29_Post.mp3 Humans are very territorial. This is the idea behind “Molon Labe.” The inscription on the statue at Thermopylae. The famous battle between the 300 Spartans and the “Immortal” Persian army. The Persian general said lay down your weapons and we won’t kill you. Leonidas, the Spartan king […]
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 […]
OG Frame Master
Frame Domination https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun27_Post.mp3 Socrates was an OG. They killed him, but not for reasons most believe. In reality, his death was a political maneuver. At least according to certain historians. He existed during three critical phases of ancient Greece. First, the democracy phase. Then when they went to war […]
Infinite Frame Strength
Art Of Con https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun25_Post.mp3 It’s a common idea that if you believe something strongly enough, so will others. This is precisely how con men can con people. Con, of course, is short for confidence. Which verifies that if you have enough confidence, you can tell people anything. This is one reason […]
Trifecta of Greatness
Complex Simplicity https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun24_Post.mp3 Humans are goal seeking organisms. All animals are goal seeking organisms. But humans are much, much more complex. We were calibrated to live in small, tightly organized groups. Where everybody grew up knowing everybody else. And to make it simpler, Mother Nature gave us each a singular […]
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