Specific vs. Meta https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May24_Post.mp4 There are very specific skills you can learn. And there are very meta skills you can learn. Specific skills are things like a specific martial art, or a specific kind of software. Meta skills are things like mathematics, logical thinking, how to cook, general mechanical skills. Meta […]
F-Bomb Origin Story
F-Bomb Origin Story Don’t Say That! https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr06_Post.mp4 Most adults know to monitor their own speech when kids are around. If you accidentally drop and F-bomb, the kids will pick it up. If you are visiting a friend that has kids, you might have heard them say: “Don’t teach them any bad habits.” […]
Self Confidence Feedback Loop
Scrambled Egg Theory https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar31_Post.mp4 What is confidence? There’s contextual confidence. There’s meta-contextual confidence. Then there’s meta-meta confidence. When people say, “be confident,” they are referring to “meta-meta confidence.” First, contextual confidence. Let’s say you’ve never made an omelette. And you have no idea how. All you can […]
Practice Being Your Best Self
Critical Skill Creation https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar09_Post.mp4 There is a lot of mixed feeling associated with any kind of “self help.” And nearly all of these are entirely justified. Most of the things people want involve other people. Making more money, creating better relationships. And since these are also the things that TERRIFY us […]
Art Gallery Seduction
Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
Nomad Lifestyle
Swan Pond There’s a park near my apartment. In this park there is a large pond and in the pond you’ll find some swans and sometimes some ducks. Usually on the weekends there are people feeding the swans and feeding the ducks. I went down to this park a couple of weeks ago except […]
Milton Model
Most Powerful Language Patterns Ever Created The Milton Model is a collection of very powerful language patterns and techniques. There are several dozen individual patterns, as well as larger strategies in which they are organized. They were invented by Dr. Milton Erickson, a physician and a hypnotist. He developed and used them as part of […]
Hallucination
The Human Unique Selling Proposition What is our best feature, as humans? Many people like to talk about this, since we are pretty different from all the other animals. Some don’t even like to accept that we are animals, imagining that we are some special beings above the rest. Chimp DNA But there seems […]
The Myth Of Complacency
Why Risk And Uncertainty Is Scary We humans don’t like doing new things. Our brains very much like to settle into as many auto pilot situations as we can. Much of our thinking patterns and collections of biases evolved to cut down on thinking energy. Because our brains are a pretty expensive organ (operational calories […]
Become A Black Belt Of Life
According to Bruce Lee, martial artist and creator of Jeet Kune Do, a punch is just a punch. But then when you start learning martial arts, a punch is a very complicated combination of energy, focus, balance, intention, and motion. Everybody comes into this world with plenty of pre-engineered, and factory built instincts. We’re naturally […]