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Reverse engineering your goals simply means to look at Point A (where you are now) and Point B (where you want to be). Rather than plotting your course starting at Point A, you work backward from Point B. If I want this, I'd have to do that. To do that, I'd have to accomplish this thing...

I didn't write it for you. If you have nothing of value to say, leave. I posted these articles with the intention of helping the community. If you're too caught up in an imagined rivalry to listen to somebody trying to help you, then you don't deserve any help.

By the sound of it, you guys were going to buy the DVD anyway. What do you care?

So supporting exposure of utilities on publicly accessible forums is commendable? What forums have you been reading? To be brutally honest, if you feel the need to make such an analogy, you have no argument and no point.

Recommended Reading Absolute Magic by Derren Brown: Don’t question this one. Just get it. You can find a lot of great reviews for it here at Ellusionist already. The Secret by Rhonda Byrne: Yeah, yeah, I know. It seems like one of those hokey New Age things. But even though some of the...

3. Make a 5-year plan, thinking of your ideal self-image. You’ve gotten past the hardest part, which was getting that early momentum going. Now you have more breathing room, and you’re able to have more fun with it. This is good. The most important thing is to enjoy what you do. A lot of...

Here is the second installment of my Who Are You? essays from the Ellusionist boards. Who Are You? part I Earlier this week we laid the groundwork for figuring out your identity as a performer. This grounding is essential to the process as the way humans learn is first through external...

I posted this a while back at the Ellusionist boards, and it helped a few people out. Rather than just sitting on it, I want to keep spreading out the word as it's the culmination of a lot of lessons I've learned the hard way. I hope you get something out of this. Who are you? A...

Here's a couple of ideas. Ivory Tower: The biggest problem I'm noticing is people going on and on about this method or that theory, and I can tell instantly whether or not they've actually tested any of this under real world conditions in performance. More often than not, they haven't. As...

Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It's a blend of linguistic science, hypnosis, and New Age crap. It's a pseudo-science really. If the idea intrigues you, you're much better off studying the works of Docc Hilford, Kenton Knepper, and Luke Jermay. That's a very good question...

Well, that's it. It's all downhill from here. Once again, magicians demonstrate their complete inability to think of anything other than methods. This is why maybe 1% of this entire forum could ever make it professionally in the long run. Bogus strawman argument. Have you spoken...

Derren is doing what few other magicians attempt: he's making his word reality. It's what we're supposed to do, but few people actually possess the ambition, confidence, and presence to successfully pull off. Derren has actually spoken with the creators of NLP, and considers it equal...

The first two magicians I can think of in terms of being revolutionary are David Blaine and Derren Brown. David truly brought magic into the mainstream via television. I'm going to outright say it: World's Greatest Magic sucked. It was ineptly produced and pompous. David changed the focus...

I maintain my stance that a lot of people here don't need more methods. And the idea of people on this forum voting which effect gets to go into a book is absurd. I will not consider 90% of the users here qualified to make such a decision. Magic is not just about methods. Methods are not...

You're right. It isn't. And neither is your idea because it's the exact same thing with more volume and a contest. Give me a break. With relatively few exceptions, the new material being released today has been in the works for years. Most of the people here who have come up with their...

I'm going to need a couple hours and a lot of beer to figure out that leap of logic. I'm also going to go out on a limb and guess that fight was the only part of the show you watched. But I digress. I've talked to a lot of people who saw Criss call out Callahan. I have not had one person...

I may be a bargain *****, but there are place where I won't shop for reasons that are my own, and Penguin is one of them. I go out of my way for customer service, even if it means paying an extra five dollars. Then don't make ridiculous blanket statements. Try not to make a habit out of...

I make it a point not to trust anybody who uses the phrase "open your eyes" with any sincerity. And Burned was on How to Do Street Magic, incidentally. Brad shot that mostly with friends of his simply because locations and timing and releases were more convenient. Considering most of the...

Question. What is the point of this?

Inside Magic and the Crash Course series both show Brad performing for audiences out in the street. I'm not going to be ripping videos from the DVDs though for a number of reasons, most of them having to do with ethics, and the others having to do with how much my computer sucks. And I can't...