Cheaters https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr06_Post.mp3 Long time ago I watched this interesting guy on late night TV. This guy had been a professor for a long time. He wrote a book about all the ways students figured out how to cheat. This was all before the Internet. Some of his students went to great […]
Maximum Drive
Living Puzzle https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Mar31_Post.mp3 Life is a strange thing. Nobody knows for sure what it is. Sure, we can describe life compared to non-life. Life moves around, changes, consumes energy. One thing about life is it is an example of an “emergent system.” You can study oxygen until you’re blue in […]
Cut Ties
Chasers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Mar29_Post.mp3 It is the human condition to want stuff that we don’t have. Sure, it’s a clever self-help slogan to say, “Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you have.” This sounds kind of cool. And to an extent, it’s correct. If you’re always chasing shiny new objects, […]
The Sweetest Revenge
Success https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Mar17_Post.mp3 Humans have what can be called an “externalizing instinct.” Because this is an instinct, it operates at the subconscious level. Just like hunger, it’s not rational. You can’t choose to be hungry. You can’t choose to be not hungry. Similar to social signals, both positive and negative. […]
Secret Success Weapon
Nobody Knows https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb23_Post.mp3 Weather systems are chaotic. Not in a metaphorical way. But in a purely defined mathematical way. Chaotic systems are systems with a few interdependent variables. In weather systems, you’ve got five or so variables. But every time one of those five variables changes, it affects all the […]
The Most Attractive Trait
Heavy Research https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb13_Post.mp3 One woman did an experiment with online dating. She did a lot of reverse engineering. First, she came up with a list of criteria that she wanted in a dude. A few, must have, green flags. Then a few things that weren’t “must have’s” but “would be nice […]
Deadly Reframes
Model Of The World https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Feb10_Post.mp3 There are two ways to look at the world. Or two kinds of people with two kinds of models. But before we talk about that, let’s be clear on something. The world is a harsh place. It is, and it will always be, less than ideal. […]
Eliminate Imposter Syndrome
Yo Yo Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Jan28_Post.mp3 There are a lot of structures that you’ll see everywhere, once you learn to notice them. Like the yo-yo diet syndrome. You want to lose weight, and you want to lose a lot. So you start out with tons of motivation. But then you burn out after […]
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 […]
Truly Attractive Leadership
Easily Stand Out https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Oct22_Post.mp3 Very few people are confident today. Very few people are assertive today. One of the greatest tragedies in recent history was the KGB vs The Russian Citizens. Most of the time, any interaction between the KGB and the citizens, the citizens always had the advantage, at least in […]
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