Nobody Knows Why https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov01_Post.mp3 According To Dr. Cialdini, in his book, “Influence: Science and Practice,” whenever we choose to do something, it’s never a conscious decision. He’s more interested in marketing than psychology. Or for him, psychology is a means to the end of more effective marketing. Anyhow, this is the sequence […]
Build Your Future Now
Future Projections https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug23_Post.mp3 I used to like reading Stephen King. Lately, not so much. But I remember one of his characters had what people would call “OCD.” Turns out OCD is a real disorder and those who really DO have OCD don’t like that people claim to have OCD, in a self-deprecating, […]
Effective Social Operator
Not Vulcans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan25_Post.mp4 It’s a pretty common idea that people are emotional creatures. This is pretty straightforward when you think of it from an “outside of your own head” perspective. We only developed “rational” thinking a short while ago. Most animals can be trained according to “operant conditioning.” Reward positive behavior, […]
Do Your Instincts Serve You?
A HUGE source of all of our problems, as humans, is that we’re living in a modern society with a caveman brain. We’d lived in small groups of 200-300 people for hundreds of thousands of years, and during that time developed some incredible instincts and unconscious and automatic behaviors perfectly suited for that environment. But […]