Take Your Time With Your Mind Reading Tricks
If I could give an aspiring mind reader or mentalist one tip whether you have dreams of being famous or just want to know some killer tricks to amaze your friends - it would be to take your time.
You should take your time in more ways than one as well. The first way is to take your time while learning mind reading tricks. The urge to go straight out and perform to your friends as soon as you learn a method of a trick is sometimes hard to suppress but it's one you will not regret taking your time with. Mind reading and mentalism is all in the performance and the actual method is really not important.
Make sure you have a rough script for a trick, have the method down to a tee – which includes the misdirection that's needed to pull it off – and ensure everything is smooth and fits with your persona and claim of special ability.
Secondly, once you have taken your time learning the trick – take your time performing it. This isn't quick fire visual magic tricks which are a dime a dozen and are thrown at spectators til they're bored. This is suspense building, mind boggling, emotionally charged mind reading.
Take your time and lead the audience as you pace them slowly and get involved in the trick, until the final revelation.
So here are two ways to take your time:
- Take your time learning the tricks
- Take your time executing the tricks
So if you want to create a truly marvellous experience for your audience so they really believe you have some incredible abilities – take your time.
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Why I Absolutely HATE Actors in Mind Reading Tricks
I don't often rant.. well I do, but this is something that really quite bothers me more than usual. The constant overuse of blatant actors on TV in mind reading and mentalism tricks.
You know the tricks, the ones that are stupidly impossible and have an obviously overreacting crowd and a pathetically enthusiastic volunteer. If you don't know what I'm talking about, stick on a Criss Angel television show and see.
These people are paid actors and are in on the trick, they have be in on the trick otherwise the trick won't work. These tricks are all for the camera and cannot work to spectators who are right up close to the mentalist. Now I'm sure a lot of you love Criss Angel but as far as QUALITY mind reading and mentalism goes, he's pretty darn poor.
I do believe there is a difference between and actor and a stooge in this case. To me, an actor is someone who has a big part in the overall effect of the trick and is usually pretending to be a volunteer. There are usually a crowd of actors too, all pretending to be amazed by some silly levitation. A stooge is someone who is involved in the trick but usually behind the scenes and doesn't broadcast their poor acting skills to the spectators but makes the effect look utterly impossible.
I understand some tricks need a stooge, but it's the overuse of actors that kill the real creative side of mind reading and mentalism. There is a danger of filming a whole show with actors as spectators and having no magic of real reactions and disbelief.
I love close up mentalism with real people. Nothing can beat the effect whereby the spectators are genuinely mystified by the mentalist. I don't personally love stooges either but I have and will always use them when I feel the need. I won't however use actors. Ever. I don't care if I've got a world famous television show. I'll never water down my effects with that nonsense. Derren Brown manages without it, so that's good enough for me.
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ETHICAL Mind Reading & Mentalism Tricks?
Is there such a thing as ethical mind reading?
This is a bit controversial and many people will disagree with me and want to write me angry letters threatening to put a spell on me or some other sort of voodoo I'm sure.
I'm talking about the ethics of being a mind reader and what you actually claim to be able to do. The basis of being a mentalist or mind reader is making people believe you have some sort of ability. Whether it be psychic or abnormal psychological abilities being able to seemingly influence people's decisions and tell what they're thinking by reading their body language.
So, why am I bringing ethics into this?
Well, is it ethical to claim you have special abilities? My personal opinion is yes and no. I think it depends what you claim and how you use it.
I think it's OK to a point. Like it's ok to say you can read people's minds or influence their choices but when you claim to be psychic and start telling people how to live their lives or speak to their dead grandmother and pass on messages. I think that crosses the line.
In my opinion it's irresponsible to use your knowledge of mind reading and mentalism to fool someone into thinking their dead relatives are talking to you or the that you can see the future and tell them what decisions to make.
What some 'psychics' may consider to be harmless fun and just a bit of trickery, someone could take literally and make a life changing decision based on a flimsy comment.
What I would say is use your mind reading and mentalism knowledge carefully because anyone who knows the really good mind reading tricks that I know, understands that you can literally make someone believe anything you want.
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A Simple Bit of Mind Reading You Can Use Right Now
There aren't many mind reading tricks you can perform completely naked but I've got one for you right here. Not that you'd ever want to perform a mind reading trick naked, although what you do in your spare time is your prerogative, just keep it to yourself. Please.
Anyhow, there's one trick that you can perform as a little test to prime your volunteer before using a more foolproof trick. Yes, this trick isn't fool proof but I have a 90% success rate which is pretty darn good for a trick that is so god damn clean. When I say clean, I mean there's literally nothing to use, no gimmicks, no cards, no bits of paper, nothing. You only need your mind.
It's a fairly old trick and one that is also used by Pick Up Artists world wide to show that you are 'mysterious' and have a talent. It was made famous in the book “The Game” written by Neil Strauss.
What you basically do is ask a volunteer to choose a number between 1 and 10 and you are able to guess which one they choose most of the time. You are able to do this because 9 out of 10 people will generally choose the number 7.
You need to dress it up to suit your mind reading persona but I personally use it along with the 'choose a colour trick' and say it's just a test. When it hits, it's amazing, when it doesn't I say, “Ahhh, you're a 'number 3' person (or whatever number they chose), that's interesting, let me try this on you..” and I proceed to perform an incredible foolproof ultimate mind reading & mentalism trick like the ones in the manual I wrote.
It's something every mind reader or mentalist should have in their arsenal because you can perform it any time, at the bar, at a party, anywhere you wish.
Oh yeah, the girls do love this one too 
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Mind Reading Trick: Freak Somone Out in 6 Seconds or Less With Cold Reading
Yes, our old friend, Cold Reading. If you don't know what cold reading is, it's basically what many psychics use when they give you your first reading if they've never met you before. It encompasses an array of different techniques but mostly it involves using general statements called Barnum statements that are general to most people but when executed well can make it look like a miracle. When the cold reader or psychic gets it right it is called a hit. When they get it wrong or it doesn't match up with the person it's called a miss. So when psychics or cold readers use Barnum statements along with an array of other techniques, more bolder than others, you can create the illusion that you are truly psychic.
Many people may think cold reading is a lot more accurate than it really is because they've seen psychics or mentalists on TV saying stuff that seems amazing, some also think psychics cannot be using cold reading because of how accurate they were. This is probably because TV psychics are using a mixture of cold and hot reading. Hot reading generally means they've acquired information before the show from a source which they can use to create a true miracle. Hot reading would be if I did a reading on someone I'd never met, but their friend had told me some private information about them before which I could now use in a reading.
So anyway, on to the point of me writing this. To learn cold reading properly takes years but I've discovered one cold reading question you can use along side your normal mind reading and mentalism tricks. Bear in mind, this is only to be used if you are able to perform ultimate mind reading tricks as a back up as it doesn't always hit, but when it does, my my, you have a serious miracle on your hands.
Basically what you say is “Where's the broken door?”, you need to say this in passing and it's best to say it inbetween a mind reading trick.
They are of course going to say “What?”, you say, “I just got a reading off you about a broken door, where is it?”
They will usually say, “It's in my house, the door to the utility room is broken” or something along those lines.
You then say, “Ah yes, I'd get that fixed if I were you” and carry on with your mind reading performance.
If it doesn't hit, you just say “Ok, keep a look out for a broken door, I get a feeling you will encounter one in the near future”
This covers you for each eventuality and you've just got to put your own personal spin on it.
You're probably wondering why I use the line about the broken door, well it's basically because it's such a general thing that most people have encountered a broken door recently or even have one in their home, on their car, in the office etc. A broken door can also include a broken frame, door handle, cracked glass etc.
The beauty of this is that people will make it fit if you give them time to find the meaning. When they tell people about the trick. Go out and try it today but make sure you've got some ultimate mind reading tricks as a back up if it fails.