Musical Invention https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May22_Post.mp4 “I Feel Fine” was a groundbreaking song by the Beatles. What was so special about this? A couple of very cool things. One is how innovate they (or their sound engineers) were way back then. This song was released in 1964. The specific technique on that song […]
The Magic Feedback Loop
Too Good To Be True? https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May21_Post.mp4 A lot of self help ideas are very, very easy to misunderstand. Mainly because of the way they are distributed. What’s this mean? Suppose you are an entrepreneur. And you decide to open a sandwich shop. All you really know is that people like […]
Sony Seduction Success Strategy
Events And Meaning https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May16_Post.mp4 A very common idea, found in plenty of religions and philosophies is the idea of meaning. Here we are inside our brains. We interact with the world and get a result. Then we have an emotional response, good or bad. Because this happens so quickly, we assume […]
Demon Brain Killer
Break Down and Build Up Building muscle, from a biological perspective, is pretty simple. You stress the muscle. You break down the muscle. And when it rebuilds itself, it becomes stronger. Can’t Get Anything Wrong https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug16ALoop.mp4 Most people are utterly terrified of making mistakes. So terrified that they play it […]
Pareto Planet
Sales Strategy There is a very common sales strategy used among many different sellers of many different things. Cars, houses, network marketing systems, and pretty much every sales job that is based largely on commissions. The system is very simple. Hire anybody with a pulse, give them a basic overview of the […]
Why Be Yourself Is Excellent Advice
Be Yourself A very common piece of advice when wanting to make friends or to create romantic relationships is to be yourself. From a superficial level, this seems to make logical sense. If you can be yourself, you’ll eventually meet people who like the real you. At the same time, this advice […]
Persistence Inventing
Sweaty Humans One of the strange things that separates us humans from the rest of the primates is that we don’t have much body hair. We also sweat, which is something no other animal does. And we have arched feet. Surprisingly, these three traits allowed us to do something very useful in our very ancient […]
Trial and Error Spices
Cooking Class I took this really strange cooking class several years ago. I don’t remember how I signed up for it, only that I found about it in a way that was different than what you might expect to hear about a cooking class. It wasn’t from a flyer, I didn’t read about it […]
Post Hypnotic Destruction
Unconscious Competence No matter what you are learning, whether it be a skill or a subject or a piece of information, if you practice this enough it will get down to the level of unconscious competence. Sometimes we say learn something by heart. Sometimes we say learn something until it is second nature, but […]
Time Travel Pill
Misspent Youth When I was very young, in junior high school, I did a lot of exercise and physical conditioning. When I was in junior high school I got a weight set and so I started lifting weights in the garage and I started to jog after school and on the weekends. I even ran […]