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When you have a traumatic experience, you look at your mindset.
Strive for extraordinary, don't moan, and sleep when you're dead.
I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain.
I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it.
I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator.
Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence, and I drive quickly sometimes.
I'm going to show you all how easy it is to manipulate the human mind once you know how.
I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does.
I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.
If you feel depressed, go and buy twenty books about depression. Learn about it; find out how it works.
Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn’t want you to look at my right hand then I don’t look at it.
Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it.
Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
Once you've hypnotised someone once, you can pretty much put them under instantly any time you meet them afterwards.
There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.
I think to get Simon Cowell out of his comfort zone would be rather interesting. I don't know what I would make him do.
I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change.
I don't pretend that I can read minds. I don't believe anybody can read minds. In other words, I don't believe in psychics.
I stock up on nuts, protein shakes, protein bars, seeds, and have them everywhere - the car, wherever - for when I'm on the move.
I haven't done anything I regret; I don't live for regrets. I'm not a mean person, so I don't go around doing evil things to people.
I pray in my own way, not regularly, and I wouldn't say structured prayers. What I'm praying to I'm not sure. I'd be a firm agnostic.
We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!
I've trained with trainers in L.A., and they get complacent. They're used to dealing with celebrity egos, so they cotton-wool you a bit.
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.
TWINS by Nefesch is a fantastic piece of truly impromptu mentalism which will only be performed by fearless performers. Highly recommended!
I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.'
If someone is lying to you, they'll generally look up to the top right. That means that they're trying to construct an image that doesn't exist.
I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility.
I don't believe I'm psychic, but if I can get people to focus on a specific thought, I can hack into brains and figure out what they're thinking.
By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.
Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.
Some computers have security software that make it impossible to hack into, and it's the same with brains - some malfunction, and some, you can't hack into them at all.
My first TV show was 2003. You wouldn't be in the game this long if you were using stooges and actors and all that kind of stuff; quite honestly, the answer is we don't need them.
We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.
If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.
Needless to say, my stunts take years to perfect and are closely monitored by a team of trained professionals at all times, so no one should ever think about trying to re-create them.
I'm pretty much self-taught - I never went to any courses. If I want to learn about, say, the frontal lobe, I'll buy 40 books and absorb them in a couple of weeks. I'm a nerd like that.
You need to talk like your boss and copy their actions. Like, if they cross their legs, you do the same. If people think you're like them, you're more inclined to get what you want out of them.
I remember hearing Will Smith, back when he was just a rapper, saying, 'When all the other rap stars are in bed, I'm practicing my rapping.' I try to be like that. There is always something to improve.
Psychics prey on the vulnerable of society. They look like they're contacting the other side, but they're not, and they're interfering with the natural grieving process that everyone has to go through.
I have to stay in shape for the physical endeavour stunts I do. I work out a lot. I have a personal trainer. I go two or three times a week. I'm on a diet where I photograph everything I eat and send it to her.
For me, I live for performing live because people look at magicians on television, and they always wonder, 'Is it a camera trick?' 'Is it a stooge?' whereas, live, they know there's no set-ups; there's no stooges.
I'm a terrible sleeper because I work all the time. I stay up late almost every night working, whether it's on a TV or live show. I come up with new ideas, do research, watch loads of TED talks, or find psychology articles.
I like pushing the envelope. I like pushing myself and the audience, whether it's a TV show or live. I like to throw people over the edge of the cliff and scare the wits out of them, but then pull them back and make them safe.
Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.
Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It's magic of the mind.
Studying neuro-linguistic programming is what teaches you how to implant and extract thoughts. Mixing psychology, hypnotism and magic somewhat goes into this area called mentalism, which is what I mostly do. It’s magic of the mind.
I want to bring magic back to where it started, which is not about the props, and it's not about me as a magician: it's about the audience and playing with their minds and playing with their perception of magic and having fun with it.
I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all the time - I might get out of that ticket. Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.
Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.