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And if it's anything like my public school experience, such a stunt will likely end in a beating. Oh god, it burns!! Why are you guys so obstinate about hiding your personalities behind stupid gimmicks? Are you really that uninteresting as people that you don't believe anyone would want to...

There's so much I could say here, but I want to get to the elephant in the room. You want to add an effect to the show using your meager pay? Did you book a show when you didn't have your act ready? If so, why?

I'm going to diverge in that I hate that phrase. It's a worn out cliche. In this context, the better advice is to drop the gimmicks, remind yourself that if she says no, that's the absolute worst that can happen, and ask her out with a modicum of class and charm. Figure out what it is about...

Or you could just ask her like a human being with self-respect and dignity. Look, I'm not trying to be the one to rain on the parade, but my experience has been that women tend to react better when a man knows what he wants and is unafraid to ask for it. Do these hokey ploys work? Let a...

Don't take the time to develop those thoughts or anything, lads. It's not as if details every helped anyone. Just post little soundbites and count on him to improve from that. After all, it worked for YouTube and comments sections, didn't it? Enough sarcasm, let's get down to brass tacks...

Better late than never. Still, the fact that there's this big-ass sticky thread up on two different forums here and we still get people who don't see it or read it is kind of... discouraging.

You are the worst liar I've ever seen.

Uh huh... And the point of this was what exactly?

Okay. So I just have one question. Where are you planning to take this? What's your long-term goal(s)?

Apparently I didn't place enough emphasis on the whole 7-10 years thing. This process takes 7-10 years. No exception. This has nothing to do with creating individual tricks. It has everything to do with learning a skill. Do you remember the last guy who completely revolutionized magic and...

Yes. Sometimes the answer you want to hear and the answer you need to hear are not the same thing. I learned that the first time Rick Maue told me my ego had surpassed my talent. Question: If you can't handle this kind of feedback from me, how do you expect to handle an audience? So...

I remember when I was that cocky. When I was 8 years old, I accidentally figured out how averages work. By your logic, that means I deserve credit for inventing the mathematical of concept of calculating averages. That's how the process works. To truly invent, you must first imitate...

Kid you need to get your fundamentals in order before you start worrying about mentalism. Take a year to finish rounding out the basics, then come back and ask for a start in mentalism. Right now all you have is card tricks you nicked from YouTube and some flavor-of-the-month DVDs. Give...

The trouble is that no one wants to work anymore. I'm not saying that in the crotchety old man/pseudo-intellectual libertarian/Donald Trump-esque douchebag way. Not even CEOs or entrepreneurs want to work anymore. They expect everything to be easy. They expect technology to give them a way...

You're going to have a hard time finding it as very few performers would actually allow the name of the effect to show up in their videos. On YT, telling people the name of the effect you're performing is to comment hecklers what the smell of blood is to sharks.

I said the other day that most psychics are largely harmless. The average Tarot reader or astrologer may or may not be aware that what they're doing is an act. As Houdini himself pointed out, a lot of miracle workers genuinely believe the words coming out of their own mouths. I recall hearing...

Debatable. I'm a recovering cynic and can no longer read Rowland's words without feeling a twinge of shame for the memories of how I used to be such a rampaging ******* about my atheism. I'm not going to dispute your experiences; I couldn't if I wanted to. Though I will say that I attempted a...

I'm actually going to fervently disagree with that. Rowland is an outspoken skeptic who wrote that book for other skeptics, not for actual aspiring professional readers. He actually tells you that you don't need to know your oracles and can just make crap up on the spot. Anyone even remotely...

Given the complete lack of response so far, I think it's safe to say that no one who works for Theory 11 reads this thread anymore, if they ever did.

Not the buyer's perception. Still not ready for market. You need at least a year to fine tune it. And that's the absolute minimum. Stealing? Not in the legal sense. But it does suggest a certain amount of creative bankruptcy and a rather distressing lack of professional integrity. In...