Choose Your Role https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug24_Post.mp3 We humans love stories. And within these stories there are common archetypes. One that I like is the Jack Reacher type. He’s very much like the Clint Eastwood, “man with no name.” Which was modeled after a similar character played by Toshiro Mifune. Eastwood’s character was […]
Secret Ruler
Orphan Hero https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May30_Post.mp3 Every hero starts out as an orphan. Why is this? A common question about “why things are like is” in the form of: Why did they make it this way? This basic question, the structure of the question, reveals a lot about human nature. Namely, we always […]
Let Loose Their Dreaming Mind
Non Stop Fantasy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Feb23_Post.mp4 Humans are natural dreamers. We love dreaming. We love creating. Sure, some of us are better than others, but we all have that instinct. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have invented all this stuff we have around us. At the same time, most of us don’t have very […]
Once Upon A Time…
Since Forever https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July12_Post.mp4 What is hypnosis? There are plenty of kinds. What is likely the two most common kinds are movie hypnosis and highway hypnosis. Movie hypnosis can also be described as storytelling hypnosis. When you are watching a movie, or reading a book, or watching an episode of your favorite […]
Show Them How Great You Are
Float Like A Butterfly https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr10_Post.mp4 I saw a clip online the other day. Of Muhammad Ali in one of his fights. He was standing in the corner, arms wide, holding the ropes on either side of him. Leaving himself absolutely wide open. The other guy took at least 10 swipes at […]
Self Generated Stories
TV Fixer Once their was a technician. A repairman. A TV repairman. He had theories. About the origins. Of TV shows. And didn’t trust anybody. To fill his brain. With stories. Or characters. What’s Their Angle https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jan10_Loop.mp4 Unless he fully understood. Their intention. […]
Co-Evolving Hallucinations
Long Form Sales Letters The best form of copywriting, when it comes to long form sales letters is the story format. Especially if these stories contain relatable characters that you can identify with, so when you get to the end of this, you’ll go right along with the main character as they take action. […]
Life’s Viciousness
Clint Eastwood Samurai There’s a lot of similarities between the Clint Eastwood cowboy character and a lot of man-with-no-name samurai characters. In fact a lot of the Western movies with Clint Eastwood were remakes of Japanese period piece Japanese samurai movies. The idea that drives evolution is natural selection and you’ll find natural selection […]
Altering Flows Of History
One Day In The Laundry Room… The other day I was sitting in my laundry room. I had just put my clothes into the dryer and I noticed a book lying face down on the table in front of me. I could tell by the back of the book that it was some type […]