• Posts Tagged ‘success’

    6 Ways To Boost Your Divergent Thinking Skills

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Featured, Science • 2 Comments

    Everyone. Must. Watch. Sherlock.

    Did you know that the most common word people used to describe themselves on LinkedIn last year was “creative”? Interesting. I seem to have missed that moment when the entire global economy turned into one big, bohemian silicon valley party where we all wear expensive trainers and work out of coffee shops attached to...

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    Your True Market Value

    by  •  • Black Hat Life Hacks, Prosperity • 6 Comments

    That's MMTP in the middle of a Florentine market. She's a tiny, tiny person.

    The New Orleans Voodo Tarot deck’s depiction of the Wheel of Fortune card is probably my favourite: A transdimensional market modelled on an ancien régime city market provides more useful mental models to comprehend and overcome the vicissitudes of corporeal existence. To me, the market is a better entry point into the meaning of...

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    The Hamburg Conjecture: A 98:2 Magical Ratio

    by  •  • Magic, Rants • 4 Comments

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    When my father came to visit recently for my birthday, the topic of his AIDS hospice work in the 1980s came up in conversation somehow. (To be clear, this wasn’t actually at the party because, you know… downer.) This was the terrifying dark ages of a genuinely horrible disease. A lot of medical professionals...

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    The Omnivorous Magician: Success Magic Requires Both Hunting And Gathering

    by  •  • Magic, Prosperity • 9 Comments

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    In one of my first ever sales jobs, my boss told me there are two types of sales people: hunters and farmers. Hunters went out and got new business -big flashy deals- while farmers got under the skin of existing clients and extracted year-on-year growth from their spend. Both have different probability spreads and...

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    3 Steps To ‘Star Storm’ Proof Your Life

    by  •  • Life, Rants • 12 Comments

    My cleaner has been away for a couple of weeks

    Chalking up some points in the spirit model column was the distinct sensation of certain “things” riding down from the Arctic into the UK during our pre-Christmas “Freeze”. To me they felt like ice demons (from here maybe?) being blown off course and making landfall right across the country when the UK’s oceanic defensive...

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    The Limits Of Visualisation: Why You Still Need Magic

    by  •  • Magic • 14 Comments

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    Have you ever been in a conversation that has turned to magic and you have found yourself talking about it in terms of positive visualisation and other such toothless terms? It only tends to happen when you’re -for instance- chatting with the boss’s wife and the conversation accidentally strays too close to home so...

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    10 Universal Sigils To Bulk Out Your Shoal

    by  •  • Sigils • 5 Comments

    Never saw The Sorcerer's Apprentice... Anyone know if it's worth a watch?

    There is a very specific reason for deploying multiple sigils at once: You’re playing tricks on your brain. It’s an extremely effective way of removing result lust. Take it from me, it’s much easier to detach from what each symbol means when there is more than one of them sitting in front of you....

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    5 Shoaling Examples To Improve Your Magical Results

    by  •  • Magic, Prosperity • 17 Comments

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    Adama (senior) says a number of times during Battlestar Galactica “sometimes you gotta roll the hard six.” Most of the time, however, you don’t. Most of the time, the 5/6 chance will do just fine. Because unless your race is battling for survival against an unlimited supply of killer robots you were foolish enough...

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