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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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How I Become Interested in Magic at 18

"I was just an insatiable, curious, like, sciencey, engineering, nerdy, brain kid who just wanted to understand the whole universe," he says. "It seems like magic for a lot of folks, at least in my mind, I'm like, yeah, it's kind of like piano or gymnastics. You start really early." He adds: "Motivation is different from results".

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