Art Of Con https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun25_Post.mp3 It’s a common idea that if you believe something strongly enough, so will others. This is precisely how con men can con people. Con, of course, is short for confidence. Which verifies that if you have enough confidence, you can tell people anything. This is one reason […]
Your Natural Learner
Trial And Error https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun21_Post.mp3 William James is an old school psychologist. Around the early 1900’s. He’s known for being a pragmatist. Up until his time, all kinds of people had all kinds of convoluted theories about the mind and how it worked. But he was heavily influenced by Darwin’s relatively new […]
Self Sustaining Social Skills
Pump Priming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May10_Post.mp3 Some things, once you get them started, are relatively self-sustaining. Like if you need to prime a pump, once the water is flowing, it is self sustaining. But when the water stops flowing, you’ll need to prime it again. This is a function of fluid dynamics. Kind of […]
Hobby Practice
Local Guitar Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr25_Post.mp3 Once a friend of mine and I were at this local bar. The bar was locally famous for the band that played there on weekends. Not so much the band, but the guitar player. He had a unique trait that made him very memorable, beyond his guitar playing […]
How To Be Outcome Independent
Arrow Vs. Target https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May12_Post.mp4 The idea of outcome independence is pretty common. That if you’re in a situation where you really WANT the outcome, it makes it harder to get it. This is best understood from a purely brain engineering standpoint. Let’s say you’re going in for a job interview. Not […]
Create Positive Cycles At Will
Once You See Them https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr01_Post.mp4 Many things are invisible. But once you calibrate your mind to see them, you’ll see them everywhere. Their not really invisible, but intangible. A description of a process. A metaphor. One such metaphor is the reinforcing cycle, or loop. For example, think of something […]
Practice Being Your Best Self
Critical Skill Creation https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar09_Post.mp4 There is a lot of mixed feeling associated with any kind of “self help.” And nearly all of these are entirely justified. Most of the things people want involve other people. Making more money, creating better relationships. And since these are also the things that TERRIFY us […]
Unconscious Magic Performance
Advanced Studies Once there was a dance teacher. She didn’t teach dance movements. Or dance techniques. In fact, she requires her students to be dancers. To be advanced dancers with plenty of experience. Dancing before large crowds. Large Entry Requirements https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct18Loop.mp4 The things she would teach them. Would […]
Curving History
Practice Makes Better To get better at shooting free throws, you need to practice throwing free throws. This means you are slowly building up a ton of success data, connecting the behavior that created the success to the good feeling. You are also building up tons of failure data, to connect negative feelings […]
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 […]