PT Barnum PT Barnum famously said there is a sucker born every minute. But what’s commonly not said is a couple of very important corollaries to that statement. The first is that suckers are suckers because they are willing to believe something that is too good to be true. Now, why would […]
Brown Bag Whiskey Drinker
Micro Brew Pub I went to this local micro brew pub recently. I’d been kind of curious about it. I’m not much of a beer drinker, but a long time ago me and a friend used to make beer. So I was just kind of curious as this place had a few of their own […]
Wait Until He’s Dead
Math Teacher There was this math teacher at this public high school in a kind of a low income middle income area. He was a very clever, very manipulative math teacher. He would target females. He liked the young under aged females, but he would pick them very carefully so that their parents wouldn’t […]
The Human Condition
Economics Book I was reading this interesting book on economics recently. I like to read books on economics, I have for several years. I’ve read probably 15 to 20 of them. This one was pretty interesting because it was about economics from a standpoint of ancient human history and how our ancient instincts are […]
Upper Management
Waiting For The Bus So the other day I was at the bus stop. I wanted to go downtown and pick something up. I didn’t want to drive. I did one take an uber. I wanted to kill some time. I wanted to spend two or three hours. I had a lot of stuff […]
Three Essential Truths
Flea Market Trip The other day I decided to go down to the local flea market. I had a few hours I wanted to kill and I like to go wandering around. Sometimes you find some good deals on pieces of furniture and other kitchen appliance equipment. I was wandering around and I saw […]
Super Villain Potential
The Maze Solver I have a friend, my next-door neighbor, has this kid, he seven and he is a super genius. He loves to do these mazes. She is very luck, his mom, whenever she needs time to herself without being bothered or interrupted she just needs to print out several of these very complicated […]
Tai Chi Wizard
Get Out Of The House A long time ago I took this class in tai chi. It was a class that was 24 weeks long and each week we would learn one new movement. By the end of the 24 weeks we had a whole self-contained kind of tai chi structure that we could do […]
Paradox Of Frustration
Embrace Your Anger Nobody likes frustration. We do everything we can to avoid frustration. Lots of advertisements are specifically allude that if we buy the product, our frustrations will be a thing of the past. In fact, one of the most common copywriting techniques is to pace the frustration of your target, expand it, and […]
Trial and Error
Modeling Success Is Impossible One of the cornerstones of NLP is modeling. In fact, the entirety of NLP was created through modeling. The linguistic-persuasion aspect was modeled from the top therapists at the time. NLP if often referred to as the “study of excellence.” Which means they find people doing excellent things, copy them, and […]
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