I can't believe you have the audacity to try and turn my words against me without confronting the points I make, reinforce your stronger points, and attempt to rebuttle the weaker ones OR admit you may (gasp!) be wrong about something.
Quit trying to smoke screen the subject at hand. That subject being the analogy you used for luck as it pertains to the lotto is flawed because winning the lotto is nothing but an example of luck personified. So instead of coming up with a better example, or trying to disprove my examples why it is luck, you instead troll me by saying I don't care about peoples dreams, and try a bait and switch with the conversation? I think not sir.
Benji I've seen how you operate on the Magic Cafe, and I've seen what you're trying to do here, and since everyone else seems to be unaware I'm going to go ahead and point out the elephant. I know what your tactics are on the forum. You'll troll something out there, you'll bait a response, and then you don't address what is said. You'll pull out one or two things, make a quick sentence about it, and then dart back into the shadows while everyone else actually contributes something worth while. I've done my research sir, I've looked through the last six months of your posts here and at the Cafe to get a better understanding of who you are, and what you are about.
What you are, and it's clear, is not a magician. You so desperately want to be a motivational life coach who happens to have done a little magic on the side. No one's heard of you before this year, and you were a total un-kown 8 months ago. You walk onto this forum in June, you've posted up 110 posts, created 18 threads, and with the exception of the three or four highlighting your TV appearances, or radio spots, they are all marketing ploys to get people to leave this forum, go to your website, sign up for your blog, and buy your 30$ marketing book. -a tactic which I might add, and moderators please pay attention, is AGAINST forum policy. I've seen people get banned for less of an offense. You could care less about the people here on this forum, the only thing this forum means to you is a way to skim off a bunch of hopefuls who have their heads full of dreams and here you come to save the day! You'll show them the way if they subscribe to your blog, and buy your book. If that's too much for you to follow then I'll simplify it. You are using theory11's forums to promote your product, website, blog, and generate sales for yourself.
I would NEVER tell some one they shouldn't follow their dream. I'm a living proof that dreams come true! I grew up in the middle of a corn field Ohio. Middle class family, lost my father to cancer when I was a boy and had an abusive step father for the last 8 years I was at home. I left the house at 18, dropped out of college at 19, and hit the road to California to make my way as a magician. I've worked everything from the streets to the Casino's and even have managed to score a TV appearance doing magic. Not an interview for a news channel, but multiple performance slots on an internationally airing syndicated TV program. I've met the magicians I worshiped as a kid, and I've had the pleasure of working with a couple of them. Dreams DO COME TRUE! However Benji, I'm not going to paint this fairy tale story as anything other than what it is. I've cried myself to sleep, I've bleed for my work, I've struggled, I've lost relationships, and friendships over my career. Nothing has happened for me over night, and I've fought tooth and nail to get what little I have. I know better than anyone that you can achieve what ever you want, so how DARE you sir come on here and try to insinuate something different. I want every single person who has ever picked up a deck of cards to be able to go out there and make it. If they want to work TV, cruise lines, casinos, what ever I want them to do it. My life is an open book, my brain a free resource to be picked, and what limited experiences I've had available to anyone to learn through. We're all in this together, and I am most certainly a team player in that regard. However as I've said, I deal in reality, and I won't sugar coat something for anyone. I'll tell it like it is, or until rebuked, or rebutted with something that forces me to change the way I look at something. (which has happened a few times since I've been here.)
I'd watch my step on this forum going into the future here Benji if I were you. I don't play games, and now that I know what you are I won't pull any punches going forward either.