Put it into a more academic fashion, the Wikipedia entry:

“The Texas sharpshooter fallacy is an informal fallacy which is committed when differences in data are ignored, but similarities are overemphasized. From this reasoning, a false conclusion is inferred.”

Barbara Connors, an author and poker player, explains its origin in her article since this fallacy is a a sin among those of us who are poker players.

” Picture a man, sitting on a hillside. He has a gun and he’s firing random shots at the side of a barn some yards away. Before long, the wall of the barn will be riddled with bullet holes. Despite the randomness of the shooter’s aim, the holes will be unevenly distributed. Inevitably, there will be gaps and clusters. If he wants, the shooter can walk up to the barn and paint a circle around the biggest cluster of bullet holes. To the casual observer, it will now appear that the man is a terrific sharpshooter. ”

Barbara Connors

But this mistake is common outside of the world of poker as well. In fact, it is one one the pillars of support leaders and CEOs rely upon. What you don’t know will hurt you. Leadership relies on so many things, Texas sharpshooter fallacy is one of them. (the other name for this fallacy is the clustering illusion)

While researching the subject I came across a resource book by Dr. Bo Bennett, Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies, which I plan on reading.

Leaders, influencers, CEOs and bosses have been baking hot potatoes out of mushed leftover flakes for as long as I can remember.

I’d like to introduce you today to Free Resources for the Free Mind recommendations, where the recommendations come from the readers…for the readers.

This week, reader Hank recommends a free course from IAI TV

Why The World Does Not Exist

by professor Markus Gabriel

About the course: “Can reality be described by a single theory? Does our failure to find a theory of everything expose the limits of knowledge, or might the world not exist at all? With philosopher Markus Gabriel. (Markus Gabriel specializes in epistemology and Post-Kantian Idealsim. He is the Chair for Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy and Director of the International Center for Philosophy at the University of Bonn. He is also a visiting professor at UC Berkley and a Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Study.)

He is the author of several books, including Fields of Sense: A New Realist Ontology, Why The World Does Not Exist, and Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism, co-authored with Slavoj Žižek.”

Note: I have no affiliation with the course, its author or platform, and only display it as a free resource recommendation from the reader.

You don’t need to look any further than Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins does so many things -and I am happy to share them. From his website:

You may have heard of cryotherapy (2.5 minutes or less in a gaseous pod at -240 F) but have you also heard of:

–PMF machines. This stuff was featured on the Dr. Oz show. I have seen devices sold for as low as $225 ( the OMI PulsePad PEMF Battery Powered Portable Local Applicator Pad ). I don’t know if it works, and how it works yet, but it is time that I get some information on it beyond newspapers and Wikipedia. I’ll start with this book, PEMF – The Fifth Element of Health: Learn Why Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) Therapy Supercharges Your Health Like Nothing Else! by Bryant A. Meyers . (I don’t benefit anything if you purchase any of these things, since I have no seller’s link.)

Dave Asprey, the Founder and CEO of Bulletproof also has an introductory article on the subject (here) and he has a studio (actually two) in the Los Angeles, CA area where they offer many of these “biohacks” . Does PMF fixes pain and inflammation ? If you have experience with those, do let us know.

–Hyperbaric oxygen chambers. I remember being in one of those many years ago. It is already used for dive care and wound care in medical centers around the world.

I read on Cloe Paltrow’s blog that hyperbaric oxygen chamber approved uses include:

• Diabetic Wounds like diabetic foot ulcers
• Tissue Damage by Radiation
• Failed skin flaps and grafts
• Acute Traumatic Ischemias or Crush Injury
• Carbon monoxide poisoning
• Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection
• Chronic or non-healing wounds
• Decompression sickness
• Gas gangrene.

Tell you what, it’s amazing that Tony Robbins came out with a 20% increased lung capacity…after jumping 1,000 times during his 12-hours plus marathon seminars. And better bone density after ?

Now, with these, and others (stem cell therapy) Tony avoided shoulder surgery.

Join the Club if you’re thinking you’re doing too little for yourself.