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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 Impossible Problem of Working on a Problem

Being a magician is like being unemployed, every gig is often a once off. And so when the prospect of getting into creative product design came up, it was amazing and you don't have to turn up to be earning the money. So quit magic full time, my great, it's now a hobby, ah, glorious, I can just do the bits I'm excited by and passionate by. Then in that lockdown, hiding out in the Midwest in 2021, away from everything and all the insanity and the chaos,. And I was like, I think I finally have the last piece of it.

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