Three New People: Make the Most of Your Daily Interactions and Stop Missing Amazing Opportunities

There’s a phenomenon by which you can selectively focus in on your name, even in the loudest and noisiest of environments. It’s called the “cocktail party effect,”

Introverts make up nearly half of the American population, which means that there are an awful lot of people you talk to on a daily basis that need you to work harder at this.

We’re on our end of the conversation too often, and we need to get on to their end of the conversation.

Asking questions will only get you so far. Even more important is listening to the answers. And even more important than that? Listening to understand, not just listening to respond or reply.

Many kids and even adults get into magic as a sort of “revenge of the nerd,” or “revenge of the bullied.” Magic can be empowering in an addictive way and even become a coping mechanism that can have some rather unfortunate consequences, as I would eventually discover.

Utilizing Visual Perspective

feeling disconnected from the world and those around you isn’t just bad for your relationships or career; loneliness is detrimental to your health.

magicians take advantage of your theory of mind in order to fool you (with the larger, more benevolent goal of creating wonder),

I performed the (now infamous at that particular school) appearing, flying potato trick!