Set Up Is Best Part I have this friend who loves to create these very deep, very well thought out, very long game pranks. His last one was one he pulled on his toastmasters group. First, he showed up at a new club. He always wore a suit, he always gave very […]
Oration Origin Story
Once Upon A Time I have this friend who started going to Toastmasters. He’s really, really, shy and really, really introverted. His boss wants to promote him but this would required he travel around and give speeches on behalf of his company. So he requires that in order to get the promotion, […]
Gumball Planet
ROI Instinct Every animal has within it an ROI instinct, a deep program that makes us not want to do anything unless we think we are getting more out than we put in. Of course, with humans, this is heavily skewed by our imaginations and subjective views. From the outside looking it, it […]
Physician’s Revenge
Global Death There was this huge international conglomerate that killed a guy’s family. He worked for the company, and lived nearby, and due to some oversight his wife and kid died. He spent ten years fighting them, essentially living off donations. This is a problem with battling these gigantic international conglomerates, they […]
Peanut Butter Industrial Complex
Carnegie Origin Story How To Win Friends and Influence People is one of the best self help book written for a lot of reasons. Carnegie realized a long time before wrote the book that the quickest way to be able to increase social confidence was through public speaking. But not being able to […]
Hypnotizing Audiences and Kangaroos
Free Seminar I went to a free seminar a couple weeks ago. It was at a local community center. The seminar was on public speaking, but it didn’t give a lot of information. Some public speaking seminars are on pure techniques, which kind of ignore the public speaking fear that people have. […]
Over The Line
Weekend Plans A few years ago me and some friends were trying to figure out what to do for the weekend. It was Friday, and were at work. We decided to play softball. We each thought of two other people we could recruit, giving us a total of 18. We decided to meet the next […]
Curiosity Of Knowledge
Science Test There’s a very famous psychological test that was done shortly after World War II. They wanted to find out why an entire country had gone crazy and done such crazy things. They organized this test with three people. The Authority figure, The Teacher and The Learner. The Authority figure told the Teacher […]
First Supernatural Kingdom
Where’d My Toastmasters Go? A couple of weeks ago I went to my local Toastmasters meeting to give a speech. I had been practicing this speech for a couple of days. I was excited to give this speech, but when I got there there was no Toastmasters group. My Toastmasters usually meets or they […]
Welcome The Other
Retired Young and Rich I have a friend that I just started hanging out with. I didn’t start hanging out with her until after she retired. She is only 26 and she retired from this tech company and she said she was the main programmer behind this kind of idea that still sort of under […]