Embrace Competition https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct18_Post.mp3 If you want to get more than others, you need to do more than others. This is an uncomfortable truth most people don’t like to hear. When it comes to personal development, most people very much like to believe in magic. The magic chant you can say to get […]
Sharpen Your Thinking Skills
Long Game https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug20_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting theory posed by an economist. A couple of economists actually. The first compared life before agriculture to life after agriculture. When you are a hunter gatherer, you are always living in the now. If you are hungry, you go out and kill something now and […]
Are You Chasing Donut Status?
Everything Costs Something https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July20_Post.mp3 A lot of things in life are inherently unpleasant, but necessary. This is the cost of being a human. Even way back in the days of hunter gatherers, we had to work for a living. If you didn’t kill, you didn’t eat. The better of a killer […]
Following Dreams
Unstoppable Drive https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July18_Post.mp3 Van Gogh was a pretty good artist. This is an understatement. But he was also poor. He only sold one painting his entire life. And that was to a friend of his. This is true belief in one’s purpose. This also raises a pretty uncomfortable idea. […]
Their Inner Hero
Clever Dude https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22July11_Post.mp3 Bernays was an old school marketing genius. Maybe a bit on the evil side. To brainwash entire populations. He was a cousin of Freud. But if you can get past the evil genius part, and study only the genius, we can learn a few things. For example, […]
Exponential Brain Growth
Fire People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun20_Post.mp3 A long time ago, humans invented fire. And within two million years, our brains tripled in size. Why did that happen? Fire can be used to hunt. To light fires in strategic places. So animals would run away from the fire. Other animals do this as […]
High Altitude Brain
Lost Hay https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun09_Post.mp3 My friend told me once about a maze he went through. Somewhere in the Midwest. Made out of bales of hay. If you got lost, they had these “towers” you could climb up on and get a larger view. So you could game out your escape. Getting […]
Don’t Eat Dirt
Effect Cause https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May18_Post.mp3 Relationships used to be easy. Not fantasy dream come true, but pretty easy. You cruise through school. Learn some basic social skills. Learn some basic life skills. Parents and teachers were there to help. Society was pretty stable. You came out, got a job and […]
Out Game Everybody
Many Moves Ahead https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr07_Post.mp4 There’s a common scene in a lot of movies. Sometimes they’re actually playing chess. Other times they’re using chess metaphors. The metaphors are centered around who’s got the best strategies. Like one guy will say, “I’ve got you in five moves.” But then the other guy […]
Change Your Brain
Nomads Vs. Empires https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr06_Post.mp4 Twice in history there were silk roads. At the time, they didn’t call them silk roads. This was a label given to that situation much, much later. Both situations were long trade routes. European empires on one side, and Chinese empires on the other. One or […]
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