Archive for the 'Behavior Theory' Category

Profiles in Charisma: Mok

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I was trolling Youtube while bored recently, and on a whim I searched for clips from a movie from my youth called Rock & Rule (2-Disc Collector’s Edition). I was specifically hoping to find this particular song from [...]

Wish I Wrote This

Every now and then I come across something that I wish I wrote.  This piece from Craiglist’s “Best Of” section is a perfect example.  It’s called “Myths and Truths,” and I’ve reproduced it in full below.  I’m sure a few people will call it jaded and cynical, and it probably is, but that in no [...]

The Rocky Fallacy

Last year, I went to see Rocky Balboa in the theaters. I’ve always loved Rocky movies, especially the first one, and I thought it was a great ending to the franchise. But as I sat there in the theater, it reminded me of how different it is to watch a Rocky movie with [...]

Portraits in Charisma, Pt. 2

I did a post a while back about what charisma is and what it isn’t. You can find it here.
The basic premise is that what separates charisma from mere charm is the ability to suck people into your reality. You need to have a frame and sense of who you are that is so strong [...]

The Power of Vagueness

Derren Brown is a skeptic that likes to go around debunking the supernatural and displaying how tricks are done.  What he does in this clip below is show one of the ways psychic readings work. You have to go in a little past the 1:54 mark to get to the psychic trick.

One of the most [...]