Treasure Map Theory https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr16_Post.mp4 Things look differently based on what kind of time frame you have. This is kind of like those videos that start way out in space. And then they keep zooming in, until you’re looking at the molecular structure of a bug’s eye. Things within a one or two […]
Be The One They Want
Feeling People Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr14_Post.mp4 What’s the purpose of job interviews? First you send in your application, then you get a call for an interview. If it’s a decent job, you’ll have a couple of interviews. So do so many people need to speak with you? Clearly you are qualified, you have […]
Your 50% Personality Flexibility
Your Best Self https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr05_Post.mp4 What makes up who you are? On a day to day level, nobody really knows. We have a kind of short term memory of how we WERE. And a kind of short term expectation of how we will BE. And so long as you’ve got a lot […]
The Reverse Memory Brain Hack
Memory Requires Effort https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar30_Post.mp4 Forgetting names is easy. So easy, everybody can do it. But there is a way to remember names. First you choose the very FIRST thing you notice about them. Their clothing, a physical feature. This is ONLY an internal reference, so it must be HONEST. […]
What If Your Memories Were False?
Self Awareness Deception https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar29_Post.mp4 Once I had to go to traffic school. Where you avoid getting hit by a moving violation, so your insurance doesn’t go up. You still gotta pay the fine, but at least nothing goes on your record. The teacher I had was pretty interesting. A lot of […]
Mysterious Center Theory
Simple Strategy Children have a very useful strategy when it comes to investigating the contents of chocolate that looks good on the outside, but they can’t tell what’s on the inside. The idea is pretty simple. Take a small bite, and if you like what’s inside, you keep eating, if you don’t like […]
Why Be Yourself Is Excellent Advice
Be Yourself A very common piece of advice when wanting to make friends or to create romantic relationships is to be yourself. From a superficial level, this seems to make logical sense. If you can be yourself, you’ll eventually meet people who like the real you. At the same time, this advice […]
Cause Effect Time Cats
Minor League Museum I went down to a local museum. It’s not a big museum, and they don’t have their own stuff. They host traveling exhibits, but not famous ones. Nothing like King Tut or the Dead Sea Scrolls. They host smaller and lesser known exhibits that travel around. Still pretty interesting. They’re not […]
Genetic Dispositions
Mail Room Hero I have a friend of mine who is a CFO of a pretty big company. He recently explained to me how he came to be the owner of the company and I told him it was a fantastic story. I told him that he should hire a ghostwriter to write a […]
Imaginary Cruise Psychic
Loud Mouth Intelligence I used to work with this guy a long time ago, back when I worked for a very very large engineering company. This guy, when you first met him, you would assume that he was this kind of an alpha bad boy type of person that wasn’t very intelligent. He was kind […]