Day Dreamers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Feb28_Post.mp4 What is human nature? From inside our brains, very complex and hard to answer. But from an external, objective standpoint, pretty easy. Humans are like all other animals. Driven to stay alive and propagate. We need food, we want sex, and we want a positive social experience. […]
Silver Love Linings
Love Clouds Some of the most powerful insights are also the most uncomfortable. Adam Smith mentioned a few hundred years ago that everybody is driven by selfish behaviors. This can be bad, this can be good. Really, really good. His famous line is that the butcher, the baker, the brewer don’t […]
Be A Covert Hypnotist
Innately Learned https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept03_Post.mp4 Humans are born with a lot of skills. And we can learn a lot of skills as well. William James, an philosopher and psychologist from a hundred years ago, said we have both tons of instincts and tons of learning ability. A lot of these have a lot of […]
Get More Than You Have
Don’t Wait Too Long https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun30_Post.mp4 Everybody wants something. More money. More sex. Or SOME sex. Better relationships. Or A relationship. Better job, better house, better neighbors, better clothes. The idea of that one “next thing” and you’ll FINALLY be happy is a myth. If you ONLY had […]
The Strongest Close Ever
Brass Tacks https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun29_Post.mp4 There are two extremes when it comes to selling things. On one side is extreme persuasion. This is very, very compelling. Even if you’ve never sold anything before, the idea of walking up to a stranger, and getting them to do anything is very, very compelling. Sales, seduction […]
The Happiness Generator Experiment
Economics Professor https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar28_Post.mp4 Once there was an economics professor. And on the first day of the semester, he would always do the same experiment. He would hand out free T-shirts to all the students. But he made sure that not very many would fit. He would give smalls to big people, […]
Balloon Animal Disaster
Lost History Humans have been the same, anatomically, physiologically, intellectually and linguistically for about 200,000 years. But we only have written historical records going back about five or six thousand years or so. This means that over 95% of human history is something we know absolutely nothing about. 95% of our ancient […]
Data Transfer Brain
Hard Drive Shopping I went to a local pc shop recently. I wanted to buy an external hard drive. It’s amazing how much they’ve improved over the years. You can transfer a few gigs in seconds, and store several terabytes of data for less than a hundred bucks. On the other hand, thought, […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Human Motivations
Best Teacher Ever One of the most impressive professors I had in college was somebody that I completely didn’t expect to be impressive. He was a very old guy, he taught philosophy 101. When I started college, I took a bunch of classes in my major and took a bunch of classes that were general […]