Thunderbolt of Pain The other day, I was walking down the street just minding my own business when out of nowhere I was hit in the gut with an emotional sucker punch. I was in a pretty good mood, I wasn’t going anywhere in particular, my eyes just kind of wandering around on their […]
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 […]
Hypnotic Invisibility
Mountaineering Seminar I’ve been working on this project recently and it might turn out to be illegal and potentially very very dangerous but it’s very very intriguing nonetheless. It all started when I went to a training meeting at a local sporting goods store. This particular training was a two-day training about mountaineering. Mountaineering […]
Nested Frame Control
Gonna Get Fired I had only been at my first job after college for three months before I made a horrific mistake that I thought would forever banish me to homelessness and life in the bushes with only an empty bottle of whiskey for a companion. I was working in the laboratory for a […]
Think Your Way Out
Gym Buddy There’s a guy that I talked to the gym that’s a personal trainer. I usually see them sometimes when I’m working out and I talk to him sometimes. I’m always interested in his strategy for getting new clients. He says when it comes to being a personal trainer the strategy to get […]
How To Kill Social Anxiety
Everybody’s Got It There are many truths about humans and human nature. Here are two: All people have social anxiety. All people would like to have less social anxiety. Consider this a given. Many people would like to go out and meet people, but they say, “Yeah, but I have social anxiety!” Unfortunately, some people […]
Paradox Of Achievement
Four Minute Mile This is a common story that is told in many forms. It’s commonly uses as a self-help metaphor. An “if you believe it, then you can achieve it,” metaphor. These types of metaphors are used to combat the normal human, “I won’t believe it until I see it” response. Roger Bannister […]
Conquer ALL Enemies With NLP
My first NLP training I went to years ago, the trainer would close every day with an “incantation,” which was a tightly packed, multi-looped hypnotic story that was supposed to “install” what we’d learned that day. Then the next day, he asked us if we had any strange dreams. I recalled a dream I had […]