Illogical Humans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr18_Post.mp3 One of the oldest logical fallacies goes by the name, “Post Hoc, Ergo, Propter Hoc.” Which essentially means, “after this, therefore, because of this.” Basically it means this: We silly humans see two things happening in sequence. And we assume the first thing caused the second. We […]
The Sweetest Revenge
Success https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Mar17_Post.mp3 Humans have what can be called an “externalizing instinct.” Because this is an instinct, it operates at the subconscious level. Just like hunger, it’s not rational. You can’t choose to be hungry. You can’t choose to be not hungry. Similar to social signals, both positive and negative. […]
Ancient Persuasion
Know Thyself https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb28_Post.mp3 Carl Jung famously said that unless you “make the unconscious conscious, it will run your life and you will call it fate.” What does this mean? It’s very easy for us humans to believe that many aspects of our life are out of our control. His theory that we […]
Demon Killer
Scary Monsters https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan19_Post.mp3 I’m a huge fan of horror movies. Well written, well paced horror movies. Particularly ones with a kind of shocking reveal. One is the movie, “Orphan.” The ending was fantastic. Another one was “The Others.” A very nicely written twist. The ancient Greeks invented the […]
Dissolve Social Anxiety
No Signals https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec08_Post.mp3 One common idea from “self help” is that the wake doesn’t drive the boat. This is a kind of cool sounding metaphor, but it doesn’t help much. The things that happened to us in our past have a huge impact on how we see and interpret the future. In […]
Predict Everybody’s Personality
Similar Structure https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec03_Post.mp3 There’s an old video on YouTube called the “Axis of Awesome” or something like that. It is a demonstration that nearly all popular western music in the past couple decades have the SAME basic chord progression. If you study the structure of stories, you’ll find the same thing. On […]
Become Approachable
Dangerous Ideas https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov20_Post.mp3 Humans don’t like uncertainty. In fact, historians have said that the history of humans is a history of scared and lazy people doing everything we can to make things safer and easier. Chasing after a wooly mammoth is scary and dangerous, filled with uncertainty. Growing a bunch of corn […]
The Ultimate Halo Effect
Following Orders https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov02_Post.mp3 Way back after WWII, they put all the Nazis on trial. “Why did you do that?” they asked. They more or less gave the same answer. “I was just following orders,” they said. Nobody believed them. So one guy, Milgram, set up an experiment. The guy […]
Become A Driving Force
Not Much Choice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct17_Post.mp3 Way back in the day, a normal life went through some basic phases. We didn’t have a choice. We were very much constrained by our environment. We were born and we were kids for a while. We were utterly dependent on adults. We asked, and if […]
Build Relentless Ambition
Wrong Drives https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct15_Post.mp3 Most, if not all, modern problems, can be described in terms of “instinct mismatch.” Our mind-body systems were not calibrated for the modern world. We were calibrated to live in a much different environment. One instinct that helped us back then but can utterly destroy us today is the […]
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