Local JC Trip I went down to my local JC recently. I like taking classes at community colleges, usually on weekends, for a bunch of reasons. For one, I like to learn. I like places like libraries and bookstores where you can find a lot of information here. But learning in a classroom setting […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]
Human Guinea Pigs
Tech Expo Recently, a couple of months ago, I went to this Tech Expo in Vegas. It was during expo season where they have a lot of different expos from a lot of different organizations. I was wondering around this one Tech Expo, it was a consumer tech Expo, so they had a lot […]
Sleight Of Mind
Party Tricks So I was at this party a couple of weeks ago I saw this guy doing some very impressive sleight-of-hand magic tricks. He had a couple of card tricks and he had a couple of coin tricks and he had a sizable crowd and I assumed that he was using magic tricks to […]
Guided Psychic Meditation
Gorgeous Neighborhood Bartender There’s a bar in my neighborhood I like to go to because I like to watch the bartender. I haven’t drank alcohol in a long time but sitting in a bar is sometimes very relaxing thing to do. It’s an understood environment where it’s perfectly acceptable to sit there and stare […]
Brainwashing Amnesia Assassins
Psychological Research I have a client that I talk to, work with, about twice a month over Skype. She is a self-employed entrepreneur and she provides a very unique service. She has to get her clients and customers through non-traditional advertising so she’s always interested in learning more about persuasion, influence, hypnosis and marketing. […]
How To Use Reverse Psychology
That’s Just What They Want Us To Do Using reverse psychology is a popular way to get people to do what you want, especially if you know they wouldn’t do it if you asked them directly. Since you are not being completely honest, it can be manipulative. If you were being totally honest, you would […]
Myth Of Self
Who Are You? How would you answer that question? Most of us answer it by saying what we do, or what we have. By our jobs, by our accomplishments, by our families, by our connections. All of these are things outside of us. If I call myself a writer, it’s really a description of what […]
Cause and Effect
The Mystery Of The Human Mind One of the most confusing things, (or maybe not so confusing since we think we understand it and we really don’t) is the idea of cause and effect. On one hand, it seems simple. We see it happening all the time. It’s the one aspect of science we can […]
How To Get More Twitter Followers With Jedi Mind Tricks
Need more Twitter followers? By applying some proven technique from psychology, you’ll not only get more followers, but followers that are engaged, and will spread your message. While these techniques do work, they’ll require a little bit of effort on your part. But if you’re willing to put in twenty or so minutes a day, […]