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#679: Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic — Quitting the Day Job, The Delights of the Magic Castle, Finding Glitches in Reality, Learning How to Use Your Own Brain, and Worshiping at the Altar of Wonder

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Importance of Mentality in the Fism Competition

Mentalism is used to create the illusion of psychic or psychological abilities that you do not have. It's a combination of sleight of hand and misdirection with a bunch of other complicated things to make it look like something didn't happen. "There are wonderful people who do mentalism, some of them are friends," he says. 'I am not a fan of mentalism'

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