Dialing For Dollars https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept12_Post.mp4 There are two ways to sell things. Or two extremes. On one extreme, is the memorized sales pitch. An extreme case would be a memorized phone pitch. A pitch written out on a piece of paper you have taped in front of you. An auto dialer […]
Inch By Inch Mastery
Means To An End https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept11_Post.mp4 A long time ago, I started to learn Photoshop. So I did some research, and found a guy that was the most famous Photoshop teacher. He’s written several dozen books, and has several dozen training programs online. So I started up, got all the software, downloaded all […]
The Unseen Third Option
Self Help Con? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept10_Post.mp4 There is a common idea that a lot of self help is a con. The evidence seems to support it. People read tons of self help books but never change. But suppose we treat this idea with a bit more scientific objectivity? One thing that’s critical in […]
Who’s Richer Than Scrooge McDuck?
Fictional Riches https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept09_Post.mp4 I read an interesting article a few weeks ago. It was in a business magazine. The article was about the ten richest fictional characters. The first was Scrooge McDuck. There’s plenty of photographic evidence of his riches. Mainly the one with him in a huge swimming pool […]
Escape Short Time Thinking
Switch Teams https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept08_Post.mp4 There are a few ways to sell things to people. One is to memorize a pitch. Practice that pitch. And spit it out to as many people as possible. So long as you make enough money during a 40 hour week, with whatever sales you get, you’re good. […]
Checkmate Everybody
Pawn Sacrifice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept06_Post.mp4 Plenty of movies use chess metaphors. To the extent they can use the chess metaphors that foreshadow the outcome of the movie, all the better. One in particular was “The Last Castle” with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini. Redford was the good guy. Gandolfini (the guy who played […]
Baseball vs. Football Lifestyle
Pass The Chips https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July10_Post.mp4 Humans are pretty lazy animals. Which, paradoxically, is our best trait. Or one of our best traits. A long, long time ago, we split based on gender. Men hunted, and got protein and fat. Women gathered, and got roots, nuts, etc. This made is different […]
Why The Road Is Better Than The Inn
TV Party https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May18_Post.mp4 If you are really hungry, and you decide to eat a sack of fast food, along with your favorite alcoholic beverage, it would be a good time. Particularly if you were watching the latest installment of your favorite movie or TV show. Even better if you were surrounded by a […]
Nested Ghosts
Pre Inspection Failure A friend of mine bought a house recently, but then he found out it was haunted. It wasn’t an angry ghost, it wasn’t looking for revenge or for help to solve an old murder. He was just stuck in the bureaucracy, waiting to get to the after life. When […]
Secret Cupcake Party
Sweet Old Lady There’s this old lady who works in a bakery. Her husband died about a decade ago, and left her everything, so she is really well off. She doesn’t need to work, she likes very much to work, to interact with the happy customers of her bakery. She’s also been […]