Deserving https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan29_Post.mp3 There’s a famous scene in the movie, “Unforgiven.” When Clint Eastwood puts behind his passive ways and becomes a stone cold killer. They killed his friend, so he kills everybody. Just before he’s about to blast Gene Hackman in the face with a shotgun, Hackman says: “I don’t deserve […]
End Self Sabotage
Trained Elephant https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan22_Post.mp3 There’s a famous story about an elephant. When he was young they kept him tied up. But when he got older they untied him. But he kept staying in the same spot. He still felt as if he were tied up. Because when he was young, every […]
Cult Leader Love
Factory Settings https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan17_Post.mp3 We all have the same basic fears. One collection comes from evolution. Sudden loud noises. Heights. Sketchy dark places like forests with little visibility. The people who were naturally afraid of these things tended to survive at a higher rate, thereby passing on those same genes. […]
Dissolve Social Anxiety
No Signals https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec08_Post.mp3 One common idea from “self help” is that the wake doesn’t drive the boat. This is a kind of cool sounding metaphor, but it doesn’t help much. The things that happened to us in our past have a huge impact on how we see and interpret the future. In […]
Why Words Are Dangerous
Life Imitates Art https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct08_Post.mp3 There’s a TV show I just started watching. Called “The Old Man” with Jeff Bridges. A pretty common theme. Ex trained assassin trying to live a normal life, but then “they” try and pull him back into the fray. But he told one story, and it was […]
Perpetual Charisma
Two Sided Charisma https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct07_Post.mp3 An attractive personality and outcome independence are related. The more outcome independence you have, the more attractive you’ll be. The opposite is also true. Unless you are super famous, obviously rich or super handsome, the more dependent you are on the outcome, the less attractive of a personality […]
Avoid Bad Seduction Advice
Jungian Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct04_Post.mp3 Jung is famous for a lot of stuff. Jungian archetypes and various kinds of dream interpretations. One of my favorite quotes of his is this one: “Unless you make the unconscious conscious, it will run your life and you will call it fate.” Back then, when he said […]
Luck Mastery
Boost Your Stats https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Sept14_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting idea in statistics called the “Law of Large Numbers.” This is primarily used in insurance. For example, consider one guy with one car. Very, very difficult to predict if he’ll get into an accident on any given day. This would be a sample size […]
Magic Killing Elephants
Don’t Think About It https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug09_Post.mp3 There’s a famous story about a wizard and a king. The king is growing impatient with the wizard. The kingdom is in shambles and the king is worried about a peasant uprising. So he calls in the wizard and says: Listen, dude, you’d better produce something […]
Fake Security Blankets
Stop Hiding https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug08_Post.mp3 Once upon a time there was this golden Buddha statue. Way back in the day, in Thailand. But then the Burmese were getting ready to invade. Many of the smaller national treasures were hidden. Except for this golden Buddha. It was too big. So they covered […]
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