Easy Way To Increase Confidence and Decrease Anxiety There are plenty different ways to look at things. There are plenty of different ways to categorize things. For example, you could put everything in the world in two categories: Things that are edible and things that aren’t. Or you could walk into a supermarket and categorize […]
Belief Change
What Beliefs Are And How To Change Them This will be an ambitious post. We will endeavor to find out what beliefs are. Once we understand what they are, we will start to understand some ways to change them. We will be doing this from a purely biological, scientific standpoint. We will not rely on […]
Time Preference – The Ultimate Life Skill
Body Moving If you were an athlete, you would need a lot of skills, depending on the sport. A sprinter would need different skills from an NLF lineman. A world class table tennis player would need different skills than a NHL goalie. But when looking at all sports, some skills are much more generalized across […]
Instinct Mismatch Theory
Understand, Manage and Leverage Your Ancient Instincts What does it mean to be human? Where does all our pain or pleasure come from? These questions are deep and philosophical. They are the stuff of religion and metaphysics and other esoteric arts. They can be endless and those discussing these ideas can go round and round […]
How To Find Gold Nuggets Inside Your Problems
When I was in Junior High School, our gym teacher was always referring to the TV show “Get Smart.” If you aren’t familiar, this was a 60’s slapstick comedy about this guy who was a secret agent, working for the government agency called “Control,” and the archenemy of “Control” was an organization called “Kaos,” which […]
How To Avoid The “Too Needy” Trap
In order to be successful with a girl, either a girl you haven’t met yet, or girl you’re currently working on, you’ve to have the right “mix” of emotions. If you are too needy, you’ll push her away. Often times guys meet some girl, get some positive feedback, and then go nuts. They text her […]
Nobody’s Fault But Mine
I once had this teacher in college that used to teach by deception. She was a young teacher, and I suppose she was trying out “new” ideas of teaching, and trying to get her students to learn the subject matter in interesting ways. Often times she would create these “scenarios” where the students ended up […]
Are You Open To Subconscious Manipulation?
It’s pretty easy these days to become manipulated without even knowing it. And when I say “these days” don’t mean just recently, I mean in the past few decades, since the explosion of advertising. I don’t how accurate they are, but there are all kinds of stories of government psychologists, some allegedly related to Freud […]
Are You Ruled By Fate?
I remember long ago, as a kid, sitting in class in fourth grade. One of classmates said something I’ll never forget. The teacher was going on and on about Columbus, and why he was such a cutting edge “genius” of his time, boldly going where no man has gone before (just like captain Kirk) when […]
How To Build Your Own Empire
You like girls, right? Of course you do! And the girls you’re after, either a specific girl or a specific type of girl, they like guys right? Of course they do! So what’s the problem? Well, walking and talking to girls you’re interested isn’t so easy. There’s a lot to gain, which makes it seem […]