Contests https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr11_Post.mp3 Everywhere you go, people are competing. Competition makes up our society. The best job, the best girl, the best clothing, the best “status,” the best approach, the best pick up line, the best reframe. Everybody wants to be on top. Not necessarily consciously, but that instinct is there. […]
Secret Brain
Leaders and Followers https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr05_Post.mp3 There are those who make things happen. Then there are those who watch things happen. Then there are those who wander around cluelessly wondering what keeps happening. Some people are very lucky. The other day I was watching this TV show. One rich girl fell in […]
Build Your Future Now
Future Projections https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug23_Post.mp3 I used to like reading Stephen King. Lately, not so much. But I remember one of his characters had what people would call “OCD.” Turns out OCD is a real disorder and those who really DO have OCD don’t like that people claim to have OCD, in a self-deprecating, […]
Think Beyond Normal
Game Everything https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug22_Post.mp3 I’ve always been a fan of game theory. It’s an interesting way to “game out” pretty much anything. And unless you make it a point to study game theory, you don’t really understand that it is everywhere. And it can be applied in a kajillion places. One popular […]
Sharpen Your Thinking Skills
Long Game https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug20_Post.mp3 There’s an interesting theory posed by an economist. A couple of economists actually. The first compared life before agriculture to life after agriculture. When you are a hunter gatherer, you are always living in the now. If you are hungry, you go out and kill something now and […]
Critical Life Skills
Always Practice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug18_Post.mp3 If you wanted to be an athlete, you’d need skills in a couple of categories. Specific skills and general skills. Specific skills would be skills related to the sport. Champions in one sport are rarely champions in another sport. Michael Jordan, arguably one of the best basketball players […]
Mind Moving Skills
Brain Leads All https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Aug03_Post.mp3 How well you speak is based on how well you think. This can either be conscious or unconscious. Either by natural game or conscious and deliberate effort. Thinking and speaking is just like any other skill. Although it’s not thought to be a skill by most. […]
Exponential Brain Growth
Fire People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jun20_Post.mp3 A long time ago, humans invented fire. And within two million years, our brains tripled in size. Why did that happen? Fire can be used to hunt. To light fires in strategic places. So animals would run away from the fire. Other animals do this as […]
One Thought Shift
Russians https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22May31_Post.mp3 A long while ago, I took an acting class. One of the guys I partnered with was Russian. But I didn’t believe him. He spoke perfect English. I asked how he learned English so well. I was an expecting a complex answer. Advanced language learning. CIA […]
Change Your Brain
Nomads Vs. Empires https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Apr06_Post.mp4 Twice in history there were silk roads. At the time, they didn’t call them silk roads. This was a label given to that situation much, much later. Both situations were long trade routes. European empires on one side, and Chinese empires on the other. One or […]