Dialing For Dollars https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept12_Post.mp4 There are two ways to sell things. Or two extremes. On one extreme, is the memorized sales pitch. An extreme case would be a memorized phone pitch. A pitch written out on a piece of paper you have taped in front of you. An auto dialer […]
Eject Fakeness and Fear
Not Funny https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug17_Post.mp4 I took an improv class once. I had not idea what it was, it was recommended to me. I thought it was going to be about comedy. But it was about improv in the context of any kind of stage acting. Plays are based on memorized lines. […]
Who’s Choosing Your Life?
Milk Eggs Etc. https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Jun28_Post.mp4 Most people go shopping with a list. Even if you don’t have a physical list, you have one in your brain. Even if you don’t know what you want, you have an idea of what’s good and what’s not. If you are standing in a room, looking out […]
One Shift To Change Everything
Scarcity Gone Wild https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May06_Post.mp4 Nearly everybody is aware of the value of scarcity. Even in goofy romantic movies, the idea of not calling or texting too often is pretty ubiquitous. When you really dig somebody this is hard to do. Particularly if you really dig somebody and you aren’t sure if they […]
Never Do Anything Wrong Again
Kids And Cheats https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr18_Post.mp4 When I was a kid, video arcades were popular. Put in a quarter, and play as long as you could. Many games had cheats. Of course, this was long before the Internet, so to get a cheat you had to know somebody. Otherwise, you had to learn […]
Street Preacher Origin Story
Embattled Scientist Once upon a time there was a scientist. He was very brilliant, but very troubled. He’d always heard voices in the back of his mind. They would interfere with him when he studied. But he could tune them out. They would interfere with him when he talked to […]
Slippery Slope Dream Archetypes
Cialdini Laws A very powerful Cialdini law of influence is one we create ourselves, and operates on ourselves, but outside of our conscious awareness. Researchers demonstrated this by going into a neighborhood they’d split into two halves. The first half they went through and asked everybody if they could but a huge, very […]
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, […]
Cause Effect Time Cats
Minor League Museum I went down to a local museum. It’s not a big museum, and they don’t have their own stuff. They host traveling exhibits, but not famous ones. Nothing like King Tut or the Dead Sea Scrolls. They host smaller and lesser known exhibits that travel around. Still pretty interesting. They’re not […]
Black & Decker Brain Surgery
Super Power Language Patterns I had this friend that learned a whole collection of covert language techniques. He wanted to experiment with these covert language techniques in job interviews. He tried to get a job interview at places that he was absolutely not qualified for. He would try to use these covert language techniques […]