Fire and Water https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug10_Post.mp3 Once upon a time there was an ancient poet. Dude’s name was Rumi. Lived back into the 1200’s. He was one of many who understood the paradoxes of life. When you step into the fire, you’re really stepping into the cool water. Or when you step […]
Magic Killing Elephants
Don’t Think About It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug09_Post.mp3 There’s a famous story about a wizard and a king. The king is growing impatient with the wizard. The kingdom is in shambles and the king is worried about a peasant uprising. So he calls in the wizard and says: Listen, dude, you’d better produce something […]
Celery Hunter Love
Slipped In Thoughts https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug07_Post.mp3 Presuppositions are very powerful. For anything spoken or written, there are linguistic presuppositions. Things you must accept in order to make sense of a sentence. For example, suppose you were selling cars and you wanted to get across the idea that the car is popular. So you […]
Ditch Unattractive Behaviors
Intuitive Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug06_Post.mp3 One way to figure out the best way to behave is to ask, “what would a caveman do?” Many anthropologists believe that every single problem in modern society is down to something called “instinct mismatch.” The instincts that drive most of our behaviors were calibrated a long time ago. […]
Unhelpful Nice Behavior
Water and Ice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug05_Post.mp3 Life is filled with paradoxes. According to the harsh rules of economics, everything costs something. Plenty of philosophy and poetry is filled with ideas of expecting one thing, and getting something else. The entire history of government involvement in an otherwise smoothly functioning economy is filled with examples […]
Attraction By Elimination
Logic Solution https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug04_Post.mp3 Once upon a time, there was an American mathematician. The U.S. version of Alan Turing during WWII. Alan Turing was the dude who broke the Nazi Enigma Code. This guy, the American dude, did more or less the same thing. Used his math brain to help defeat the […]
The Rare And Subtle Confidence Frame
Respectful Advice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun04_Post.mp4 About ten years or so ago, I was in Bangkok. I was acting like a typical tourist. Walking around with a my guidebook, trying to hit all the recommended spots. I was looking for the spot in the guide that recommended the river barge. The place to get […]
The Adult Mindset Of Seduction
There’s two main mindsets of life. That of being a kid, and that of being an adult. That of being a receiver, and that of being a creator. That of someone who is dependent on others for their happiness, and that of someone who knows that only THEY are responsible for creating their happiness. When […]
Go Straight For The Emotions With Seductive Language
http://youtu.be/4Qm-OxeVVNA I used to play racquetball with this guy. He was much, much better than me, and would use me as an opportunity to practice various shots. I remember one game where all he did was bank shots. Meaning that instead of aiming for the front wall, he would always hit the ball off either […]
The Nice Guy Myth
Girls hate nice guys and love jerks. Right? Sort of. See, nice guys aren’t really nice guys. They’re “scared” guys. Whenever you’re about to say something, or want to say something, but hold back because you are worried what the other person might think or say, you automatically put yourself in the “nice guy” category. […]