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12. Derren Brown — Magic, Happiness, and Skepticism

The Michael Shermer Show

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Magical Mentoring - The Storytelling Thing

I don't think there's an easy answer to it. You know, you don't want to be dishonest if you've got to do a lengthy career as well. I think people understand sort of expect a certain amount of that. So for me, like in the show I'm doing now, that, that's part of it. That's kind of because the thing that's interesting to be about magic or mentors is that really your toolkit,. even more so with mentalism than magic is the stories that people tell themselves. If you follow those narrative dots, you'll arrive at this, uh, amazing miracle.

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