Master Key https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr27_Post.mp3 Without question, confidence is one of the best qualities you can develop.   From a purely mind-body engineering standpoint, confidence effects how you perceive the world.   If you are lacking confidence, your confirmation bias will shift to point out all the dangers.   If you are filled with confidence, your confirmation bias will shift to point out all the opportunities.   When you radiate a sense a confidence, everybody can tell.   And they make certain assumptions about you from your confidence. &nb ..read more

Cult Classic https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr25_Post.mp3 One cult favorite movie is “Dazed and Confused.”   It’s got a lot modern A listers but when they were just starting out.   It was a typical high school setting.   All the different cliques.   But one kid was different.   He was the quarterback for the football team.   Not your typical jock.   He got along with everybody.   He was the one common theme that went through all the different character arcs in all the different cliques.   If you can be like that guy, you’ll never worry ab ..read more

Simple Life https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr22_Post.mp3 Many things are very, very simple.   But we silly humans tend to make them much more complicated.   Nearly everybody wants to live a good life.   A decent salary, decent house, decent relationship.   This is the ideal.   The question is, how do you get that?   A lot of philosophers have concluded that many of our problems stem from the fact that we never grow up.   We never make the transition from childhood to adulthood.   What’s this got to do with anything?   Children expect othe ..read more

Confusion https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr21_Post.mp3 The world, and how it works, can be very difficult to understand.   What makes it even worse is we all have a collection of “shoulds” in our brain.   We look out into the world, and see that it is less ideal.   We “wish” it were different.   But saying that makes us feel helpless.   “I wish the world were different, but it’s not, so I guess I’m stuck.”   Enter the “should.”   It feels much better to our ego to say, “The world SHOULD be different!”   As if we’re right, and the world is wron ..read more

Vicious Ladies https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr20_Post.mp3 Lately I’ve been watching some animal vids on YouTube.   And not cute fluffy animal vids.   Vicious law of the jungle animal vids.   For example a bunch of lionesses were hanging around watching a hippo give birth.   A long and hard birth.   When the hippo was finally finished, and in a very weakened state, the lionesses moved in for the kill.   They relentlessly chased her for a few hours until the hippo gave up.   Then they tore her to pieces, and ate her.   The law of the jungle is ..read more

De-Mystify https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr17_Post.mp3 For most people, money and finance are shrouded in mystery.   A lot of times this is absolutely deliberate.   For example, there are these guys called “activist investors.”   They’d want you to believe they are on the side of righteousness.   That they are independent operators who are on the side of justice.   They find companies that are kind of sketchy, and uncover the “bad” accounting practices.   Yes, it’s nice that they expose fraudulent business practices.   But their actual intentions ..read more

Money Brain https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr14_Post.mp3 One thing that few people truly understand is money.   This isn’t by accident.   They don’t teach us money in school.   Nothing about interest rates.   Nothing about accounting.   Which is a shame.   Because one of the greatest inventions in the world is double entry bookkeeping.   Before that, it was hard to make money.   Not hard to find out what people wanted.   But hard keeping track of how much you spent and how much you earned.   Once double entry bookkeeping was invented ..read more

OG Tragedy https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr13_Post.mp3 Once there was a dude named Aeschylus.   And old Greek guy.   Considered the “father of tragedy.”   Meaning he was one of the original dudes who created the classic “Tragedy” style plays.   The kinds that led to Catharsis among the population.   One of my favorite quotes of his is:   “Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”   What does this mean?   Consider two people.   One guy learns only from books.   The other guy learns only from experience.   The first guy reads somethin ..read more

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.   In sports competition is pretty obvious.   Pretty conscious and pretty deliberate.   And in some areas the competition between businesses is pretty obvious.   Like back when the Internet was inven ..read more

Fighting People https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/2023/23Apr08_Post.mp3 Humans are naturally competitive.   We have to be.   It’s in our nature.   Nearly all mammals live within a hierarchy.   This is the most efficient way.   Most of these hierarchies are based on DNA.   Like a regular gorilla can’t just “decide” to become a silverback.   He’s got to be born with the silverback genes.   The biggest walrus can’t get to where he is by determination and willpower.   He’s got to be born that way.   And these hierarchical mammals, the top dog gets ..read more