Intuitive Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug06_Post.mp3 One way to figure out the best way to behave is to ask, “what would a caveman do?” Many anthropologists believe that every single problem in modern society is down to something called “instinct mismatch.” The instincts that drive most of our behaviors were calibrated a long time ago. […]
Social Gold Digger
Eating Tigers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Mar06_Post.mp4 One interesting theory from evolutionary psychology is the idea of assuming agency. What the heck does this mean? Imagine two kinds of cave people. One assumed agency, one didn’t. So they both see a tiger. The one that doesn’t assume agency within the tiger sees it as […]
Ditch Red Pill Constraints
No Spoon https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan30_Post.mp4 The idea of “red pill” is very compelling. But it also can be very misleading. Or even a misdirection. The term red pill generally means to see things they way they really “are.” To the extent you can do this, you can increase your success. Unfortunately, people […]
Destroy All Your Competition
Original Hero https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Dec29_Post.mp4 Lord Acton was a BAMF. A dude who truly understood the human condition. He’s the guy who came up with the famous, “Power corrupts, power corrupts absolutely.” He also said something similar: People will get as much power as circumstances allow. And: Nobody will vote for […]
Plato’s Cave and Big Boobs
Hypnosis Pill https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July17_Post.mp4 There are many different definitions of hypnosis. Or actual arguments that hypnosis doesn’t exist. Some believe that we are always under a state of hypnosis. But this constant state of hypnosis is limiting. So we need to “de-hypnotize” ourselves. This metaphor is pretty ubiquitous and has been […]
How To Be The Source of Truth
Authority Belief Hack https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar03_Post.mp4 One interesting idea is how we humans treat “ideas” or beliefs. That we’d much prefer a comfortable lie than an unpleasant truth. There are TONS of metaphors that describe how HARD it is for us to accept a harsh truth about life. This is essentially the idea behind […]
Hidden Insanity Revealed
Differential Equations I had this really cool differential equations teacher once. He would always be halfway through an equation and then he’d stop and tell a story. They weren’t the kind of stories that helped to illustrate the underlying idea of the equation. It was just that he would be talking about […]
NAWALT – Red vs. Blue Pill
Red Pill Beliefs There are a lot of ideas recently associated with Red Pill. When it comes to male-female relations, a very common idea is that women are very similar. That women are hypergamous and women will always be looking to move up a level, so to speak. The opposite of this […]
The Benefits Of Female Hypergamy
Getting A Bad Rap A lot of people, mostly men, have been talking about something called hypergamy lately. It’s a relatively modern term and generally refers to how women will rather have a more wealthy and powerful mate, all else equal. It’s often pointed out that a woman will always date up, […]