Future Projections https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug23_Post.mp3 I used to like reading Stephen King. Lately, not so much. But I remember one of his characters had what people would call “OCD.” Turns out OCD is a real disorder and those who really DO have OCD don’t like that people claim to have OCD, in a self-deprecating, […]
Ditch Useless Shortcuts
Brain Power https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug21_Post.mp3 Chess players burn a lot of calories. It doesn’t look that way. They’re just sitting there, right? But gram for gram, our brain burns more calories than any other organ. Our brain is a very resource intensive organ. Chess players, if they don’t eat enough, lose a […]
Gorilla Death Stare
Scariest Face Ever https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug19_Post.mp3 A gorilla is a pretty scary looking animal. If you were out on afternoon stroll and you found yourself face to face with a gorilla, you couldn’t do much. You couldn’t run, or fight, or slowly slink away and go in the opposite direction. Your only hope would […]
Critical Life Skills
Always Practice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug18_Post.mp3 If you wanted to be an athlete, you’d need skills in a couple of categories. Specific skills and general skills. Specific skills would be skills related to the sport. Champions in one sport are rarely champions in another sport. Michael Jordan, arguably one of the best basketball players […]
Secret Weapon Brain
Most Powerful Skill https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July31_Post.mp4 A very useful practice is image streaming. Originally it was presented in a book by Win Wenger as a means to increase IQ. In the book (The Einstein Factor) he referenced a study where college students did image streaming for a while. And the preliminary results suggest (not […]
Brain Power
Your Most Underutilized Resource What’s your IQ? Before you answer that, consider the structure of that question. The very idea of IQ is considered like somebody’s height. Consider other “What is…” questions about you. What is your degree in? What is your favorite color? What is your wife’s name? What is […]
Mental Grip
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 […]