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Digging Holes With Amnesia: https://mindpersuasion.com/digging-holes-with-amnesia/ https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept29Loop.mp4
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https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July28Post.mp4 What does humor and hypnosis have in common? A very similar linguistic structure. Most people never think much about language. We learn it, we use it and that's that. But studying the structure of language can give you a huge advantage. One, because the structure of language IS the structure of thought. When you speak not only articulately but entertainingly, people will make a LOT of assumptions about you. Most of them subconscious. They'll assume, subconsciously, that your brain is as interesting as
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https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/July25Post.mp4 What's the difference between hypnosis and humor? Timing. The linguistic structures are the same. Ambiguities, reframing. You can use ambiguities to fade somebody's brain while telling them a bunch of somewhat disconnected stories. Ambiguities on the sentence level. Ambiguities on the structural level. You have three or four stories on the same kind of theme. Like overcoming some kind of social anxiety. You tell four stories all about people who overcame some kind of social anxiety. But by t
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Cooking Cult https://mindpersuasion.com/cooking-cult/ https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Mar19Loop.mp4
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Humor Instincts and Ambiguity: https://mindpersuasion.com/time-flies-like-an-arrow/
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One of my favorite stories from science is the discovery of quantum physics. This has NOTHING to do with quantum physics itself, only HOW it was discovered. A bunch of the smartest scientists on earth were sitting around, trying to figure out a problem. They would heat up this hunk of stuff, and watch measure the heat curve as it cooled off. Each time they tried to explain what was happening, they got it wrong. They'd come up with a theory, figure out a way to describe that theory mathematically, and then repeat the experiment. If the heat-curve match their predic
