Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

As for leadership, I am the kind who leads reluctantly and more by example than anything else. Someone had to be on the incorporation papers as president.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

If God could transcribe my heart, it'd still read "I love you".

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Do you thinking not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?"--Robert Redford from the 1975 movie Three Days of the Condor

I think it would be ridiculous to work with Tom Hardy. I hear some crazy things about him, and he's also really good.

We have the ability to make the connection, make the time to pray and meditate. We have to find our inner voice that will guide us. But we can only find it if we get quiet.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

How many of us have enough trust, strength, and faith to believe that we could do the impossible?

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.