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 […]
Ancient Love Force
Cat Skinners https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept03_Post.mp3 We humans are pretty flexible. They think it all started once we split our division of labor along gender lines. Dudes would hunt, women would gather. This allowed us to live in a lot more areas. It also made “unions” between humans much more important. Plenty of […]
Easy Path To Love
Cake Expert https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept02_Post.mp3 If you wanted to bake a cake, it’d be pretty easy. So long as you had the tools and the ingredients. Sure, you might need a bit of practice. But once you learned how, you could make the same cake over and over and over again. PT Barnum […]
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. […]
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