Amateur Hour https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/22Jan26_Post.mp4 A long, long time ago, I used to play a lot of golf. I had some cheap, hand-me-down clubs. There was a nine hole course near my Junior High School. It cost $5 or something. So my friends and I would sometimes play after school. I liked […]
Develop Impressive Verbal Flow
Unique Practice https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar14_Post.mp4 I watched a goofy movie a few days ago. One person’s skill was being able to come up with rhyming verbal smackdowns. Kind of like one way rap battles. Her character was the archetype of somebody who doesn’t have “book smarts” but instead has very valuable “street smarts.” […]
Language Flow State
Unconscious Love https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar08_Post.mp4 The flow state is a very interesting psychological state. One that sports psychologists have been keenly interested in. One idea is that it represents the top of the Maslow hierarchy. The temporary yet blissful state of “self actualization.” It kind of make sense from a biological, mind-body perspective. […]
Learning Alchemy
Magic Lady Once there was a witch. She spent plenty of time learning. And studying the ancient arts. Of the occult and dark matter. Contrary to opinion. Witches aren’t necessarily evil. Only they are defined as such. Base Oils https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Nov11Loop.mp4 She started with essential oils. And borrowed […]
Unconscious Magic Performance
Advanced Studies Once there was a dance teacher. She didn’t teach dance movements. Or dance techniques. In fact, she requires her students to be dancers. To be advanced dancers with plenty of experience. Dancing before large crowds. Large Entry Requirements https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Oct18Loop.mp4 The things she would teach them. Would […]
Peanut Butter Seduction
Stock Charts If you study stock charts, it seems very easy to understand how to make money in the stock market. With all the various indicators, the moving averages, various overbought and oversold indicators, MACD, volume indicators, it seems simple from a purely intellectual standpoint. But as soon as you invest your money, […]
Post Rational Crash
Bike Riding A long time ago I used to do a lot of cycling, about a hundred and fifty, two hundred miles a week. I’d go riding after work, and I’d go on long rides on the weekend. At one point, I changed my pedals to this clips that are attached to the […]
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 […]
Flow States and New Instincts
Getting Beat A long time ago I used to play a lot of racquetball. One day I was playing against a friend of mine against whom I usually won. We usually played best-of-seven, first person to win four games. He was winning three games to zero and he was about halfway through the fourth […]