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https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug22Post.mp4 Socrates and Marcus Aurelius were two different guys from two different times. One guy was a Greek philosopher. One guy was an orator and a Roman Emperor. But they both had the same idea about the human thought process. Socrates believed that everything everybody believed was wrong. And he could prove this. This is where they get the Socratic method from. By asking enough simple and well placed questions, it's very easy to PROVE that any idea anybody has is false. Of course, eventually Socrates started
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Mental Brain Illusions: https://mindpersuasion.com/mental-brain-illusions/ https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Feb18Loop.mp4
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https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Sept18Post.mp4 There's a reason few people understand economics. And there's a reason why economics is known as the dismal science. It has to do with why we also HATE doing things like balancing our bank accounts. Or when we go to the ATM, nobody likes to see their balance. Everybody has a very DEEP fear of running out of money. This is for a lot of reasons. One is instinctive. A healthy fear of NOT getting our needs met was necessary to get us out of bed every morning. It's also based on how beliefs are transmitted
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https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/Aug11Post.mp4 An ideal role model for becoming an effective public speaker is Marcus Aurelius. He was a famous orator and Roman emperor. But he's not a good role model because of his success. He's a role model because of how he achieved his success. When he was young, he had a speech impediment. Today, that's enough to destroy your self-confidence for life. Imagine how it must have been back in the Roman times. But that didn't stop young Marcus. Not one bit. He spent the days of his youth down at the beach.
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Our brains can sometimes make things too complicated. Being our best feature, our brains, and everything it can do, has made us humans the (currently) top dogs on Earth. Why, specifically, is something that is open for discussion. Some argue it’s our use of language. Or our use of tools. Or our ability to think consciously. One interesting theory says that the long road to conscious thought began WAY back when the first creatures crawled out of the water. See, in the water, you can’t see very far ahead. So you never really need to think about what’s comi
