Recently I sat in on a sales mastermind. Now, I’m not a salesperson, but when I needed help on a pitch email, I reached out to my friend Nick Rundlett. Nick is a sales… well… master, and he invited me to tune into his weekly mastermind chats. The structure was fairly simple. A group of sales-minded folks, get together to talk about sales-related challenges they’re facing and pool their collective brainpower to find solutions. I had an amateurish problem, I wanted feedback on an email I was using to secure a freelance client. I got the feedback I was looking…
Nozick’s Experience Machine
Robert Nozick had a famous thought experiment that can be summed up in the following way: Imagine there was a machine, while in the machine, an algorithm is run that lets you experience anything you want. It seeks to maximize your happiness as fully as possible. The machine is capable of giving you hardship, boredom, heartbreak, etc., provided that it works to maximize your pleasure and joy. While in the machine you forget you are in a false reality. You do not know true reality.
Nozick would ask his students if they would enter the machine. Often they did not…
