Toe Touching https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr18_Post.mp3 Flexibility is important. In the harsh world of being able to touch your toes. And in the metaphorical realm. Alexander the Great, for example, was extremely flexible with his battle strategies. In part, because his army was made up of a bunch of Greek dudes who’d been fighting […]
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 […]
Paradox Of Achievement
Four Minute Mile This is a common story that is told in many forms. It’s commonly uses as a self-help metaphor. An “if you believe it, then you can achieve it,” metaphor. These types of metaphors are used to combat the normal human, “I won’t believe it until I see it” response. Roger Bannister […]
How The Geeky Guy Got The Gorgeous Girl
I was at this party recently. There was this gorgeous girl who was married to this geek. I don’t mean that in a bad way. He was just NOT the kind of guy you expect to see with a girl like that. I mean she was friendly, very attractive, intelligent, and had a pretty nice […]
The Myth of Equality
Most people love the idea of “equality.” They see “inequality” and they think something needs to “be done.” There’s a huge problem with this kind of thinking. If you’ve ever read Psycho Cybernetics, one of the things that Maltz tries to drill into everybody’s head is that comparing yourself to others is a useless exercise. […]