Relaxing Weekend I went to my local library a couple weeks ago, something I do to relax and kill time on the weekend. I picked up an interesting looking book, and sat in my favorite chair next to the window with a nice view of the park. But I started reading through book, […]
Social Proof Hallucination
End Of Stone Age The stone age ended when ancient humans figured out how to smelt ore, get the metal out and make tools and weapons. They’ve found very intricately decorated bowls in some of the oldest mines. They suspect it’s the humans giving gifts to the gods of the Earth in exchange […]
Corrupt Kings and Noble Mythology
Boy Scouts When I was a kid I was in Boy Scouts and we had this very old very wise very kind of noble retired scoutmaster. He was never a an actual scoutmaster when I was there by the time I had started when I had joined he had already become retired. He always […]
The Law Of Unintended Consequences
Local Dive Bar I like to hang out in my local dive bar from time to time. If you hang in your local dive bar you’ll experience a different environment than you find in most other places. Anywhere socially, a bar, a regular bar not a dive bar, restaurant a coffee shop people tend […]
Post Hypnotic Suggestions
When Blind Dates Were Blind A long time ago I went on a blind date. This was back when blind dates were really blind dates because it was before the Internet and you’re going to blind date because when you friends set you up with somebody and you didn’t actually know what they looked like […]
Question Everything
Church Girl I used to go to this Christian church that was very light on the dogma and heavy on the activities and that’s the reason I went there was to participate in a lot of outreach activities. I met this one girl there and we would hang out sometimes but it was always […]
Origin Stories
So There’s This Lady There’s a woman that I see sometimes at the gym that I go to. She’s very interesting and easy to talk to. The reason that she popped into my field of interest was because she’s always carrying a big book. She doesn’t read a device, she doesn’t read a Kindle, […]
Alien DNA Activation Hypnosis
Toastmasters For Confidence Recently I’ve started going to Toastmasters again. Toastmasters is a great place and there is a couple of really good things that you learn at Toastmasters. The first one is obvious it’s you learn to become a better public speaker. In order to become a better public speaker you have to […]
The Power Of Your Words
Stories have an incredible way of getting a point across. Since the dawn of time, humans have spent a lot of our spare time sitting around telling each other stories. Maybe it was the elder members of the tribe teaching the youngsters an important lesson. Maybe they were slowly evolving myths about the mysteries of […]
How To Covertly Change Beliefs With Storytelling
Telling stories is a great way to persuade people. We’ve had stories embedded in our culture, all human cultures, since the dawn of time. Stories around the ancient campfire at night, all the way to the latest blockbusters opening up this weekend. Some things are better said directly, others are better explained through metaphor. It […]