Summer School I have a friend who volunteers at a local community center. She asked me if I would help her teach some kids summer school. Some magic tricks during summer school. It took me about 10 minutes of research to realize that if I tried to teach these kids any kind of sleight-of-hand […]
Mind Illusions
Young Magician I have a neighbor and her son is in fifth grade. Lately he’s been practicing these card tricks, these magic tricks, and he’s getting pretty good. He’s got a very good little magician’s pattern going on. So far most of the tricks he’s been doing are called self-working card tricks. These are […]
Hallucination Machine
Coffee Shop There’s this really cool coffee shop near my house. I’m almost certain the people that own it, they’re an older couple, almost certain the people that own and don’t make a profit. Judging on how much they charge for coffee and how long people sit there and how much business they do […]
Question Everything
Church Girl I used to go to this Christian church that was very light on the dogma and heavy on the activities and that’s the reason I went there was to participate in a lot of outreach activities. I met this one girl there and we would hang out sometimes but it was always […]
Origin Story Erasure
Dale Carnegie’s Brilliance Before Dale Carnegie wrote How to Win Friends and Influence People he did an extensive public speaking workshop for many years. He found through this workshop all the techniques and all the details and strategies that he later wrote and How to Win Friends and Influence People. That’s what makes this […]
Necessity Of Social Fears
Bookstore Excursion A couple of weeks ago I went to one of those big bookstores nearby my house. Where you have a coffee shop and plenty of books inside. They have a lot of those nice easy relaxing chairs that you can slink into when you read your book. I was wandering around and […]
The Amnesia Bar
Harry Potter Discovery Recently I found this fantastic bar. I found it by accident. It was almost like a Harry Potter bar because on the outside it doesn’t look like anything. It’s just a simple door in between a restaurant and a drycleaners. I walked in just wondering what was on the other side. […]
Self Replicating Ideas
Donut Stories When I was in college I worked at this donut shop. I worked there for one semester. When I got jobs during college time I would quit in between semesters because we has long break. This job was one of my semester jobs. It was from 3 to 11 at night at […]
CIA Psychic Assassin
Easy Cash With A Catch I used to have this fantastic sales job. Easy money, fat stacks of cash but it ended in an unexpected train wreck that left me fleeing for my life. It was a sales job, a job where you have a list of warm clients, people who have responded to […]
Limiting Belief Crusher
Girl At The Gym So I’ve been talking to this girl at my gym recently. Sometimes we end up next to each other on the bicycle or the stair climber. One of the reasons I started talking to her because she’s one of the rare people that goes to the gym and doesn’t have […]