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 […]
The Timeless Art
Monkey People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov28_Post.mp3 Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist, is famous for a couple ideas. One is something called the “Dunbar Number.” The number of people we can keep in our brain. So when we see them, we instantly remember EVERYTHING about them. It is believed that the upper limit, or the Dunbar […]
Three Steps To Greatness
Natural Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov27_Post.mp3 Here’s an interesting and VERY applicable quote by Dale Carnegie. Mostly, he’s famous for his book “How To Win Friends and Influence People,” but during his time, he was a public speaking guru. The ideas in the book grew out of his public speaking program. Anyhow, here’s the quote. […]
Easy Outcome Independence
Self Learning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov26_Post.mp3 One of the recent breakthroughs in computer learning was deep learning. The specific program was called AlphaZero, by company DeepMind, which was later bought by Google. How, specifically, did it learn? By playing against itself. All they did was program it with the rules of chess. And […]
Conversational Trance
Two Sides https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov25_Post.mp3 In the world of communication, there is content and there is structure. If you focus too much on the actual words, you’ll miss the structure. The structure of communication is what drives emotions. This is how people get into big trouble. They “think” things are going well and […]
Dominate Conversations
Rehearsal https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov24_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting reason why people believe in conspiracy theories. And that is “man on the street” interviews seem much more articulate than how most people speak. For example, I remember way back shortly after 9-11. They interviewed a witness. Somebody who saw it happen. And the description […]
Become Approachable
Dangerous Ideas https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov20_Post.mp3 Humans don’t like uncertainty. In fact, historians have said that the history of humans is a history of scared and lazy people doing everything we can to make things safer and easier. Chasing after a wooly mammoth is scary and dangerous, filled with uncertainty. Growing a bunch of corn […]
Brain Hacking Party Skills
Sorting People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov13_Post.mp3 We humans have a lot of built in filters. We have tons of stuff that is built in. Even from a pure psychological, philosophical standpoint, it’s not clear that we don’t have EVERYTHING built in. There’s no way to really PROVE that we have free will, for example. […]
Qualify The World
Public Screaming https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Nov04_Post.mp3 A long time ago I went to Toastmasters. A pretty fun experience. One speech I gave was all about fear. How it clouds your thinking, makes you much more inefficient, etc. The club met in a big bookstore with a coffee shop. So in front of the […]
Ditch Desperation
Lost Humans https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct11_Post.mp3 It’s been said that most people live lives of quiet desperation. This may be an accurate description of modern humans. It sure seems like a lot of people are in a bad way these days. But it also might be a kind of a flex. How so? […]
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