Flow State https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Dec05_Post.mp3 Being outcome independent is a very, very pleasant state of mind. We all want more or less the same stuff. More money, better relationships, better jobs, etc. But getting those things is the difficult part. You may even say this is our “purpose.” To keep searching for […]
Infinite Frame Strength
Art Of Con https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun25_Post.mp3 It’s a common idea that if you believe something strongly enough, so will others. This is precisely how con men can con people. Con, of course, is short for confidence. Which verifies that if you have enough confidence, you can tell people anything. This is one reason […]
Intuitively Pleasing Communication
Nice To Meet You https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan27_Post.mp4 When two boxers start a match, they often “feel each other out.” (Unless one guy is trying to knock out the other guy in world record time…) During a first few dates, couples tend to do the same thing. During the mid nineties, the Lakers spent a […]
Real Time Skills
Unfair Planet https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug12_Post.mp4 The Pareto distribution is an interesting concept. It says that 20% of any system does 80% of the work. For example, if you took all the athletes in any professional sport, 20% of the players score 80% of the points. This would easiest to see in something like basketball, […]
Create Positive Cycles At Will
Once You See Them https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Apr01_Post.mp4 Many things are invisible. But once you calibrate your mind to see them, you’ll see them everywhere. Their not really invisible, but intangible. A description of a process. A metaphor. One such metaphor is the reinforcing cycle, or loop. For example, think of something […]
Higher Forms Of Meditation
Generate Verbal Brilliance https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar13_Post.mp4 If you were an athlete, there would be plenty of “meta skills” that could help no matter what your sport was. Endurance, flexibility, strength, how fast you can recover from workouts, etc. These would also be supported by good “meta habits.” Proper sleep, diet, etc. Even things […]
Mental Push Power
House Party I went to a house party a couple weeks ago. It was a friend of a friend of a friend. Big house. Nice neighborhood. Tons of people. A lot of very attractive females. It took me a while before I met the owner. I wanted to meet this guy since it was […]
Over The Line
Weekend Plans A few years ago me and some friends were trying to figure out what to do for the weekend. It was Friday, and were at work. We decided to play softball. We each thought of two other people we could recruit, giving us a total of 18. We decided to meet the next […]
Necessity Of Competition
High School Blunder When I was in high school, about 100 years ago, I ran track and I ran cross-country. I got into the habit of jogging after school a couple days a week and one day I was out jogging and a friend of mine that I worked with saw me. He called […]
Effective Con Strategies
Con Movies There are a lot of fantastic movies about con artists. There’s movies about short-term cons and there’s movies about long-term cons. Whether you’re trying out a long-term con or a short term con the basic strategy is the same. You have to create a false reality around your target and you have […]