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" 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. "
Learn
You
Natural
" 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. "
People
Children
Fishing
" By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains. "
Programming
Magic
Make
" Dave Franco, I could put him up there with the best card throwers in the world. Not the best sleight of hand, but he could take a card and fire it over there and stick it into an apple. If he kept training at it, he could definitely break a Guinness World Record - he's that good. "
Fire
Best
Training
" 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. "
Live
Know
Look
" How does the subconscious mind work? Is it independent of the conscious mind? Is it programmed by experiences or instructions? Many questions come up, but the one answer is common: if you can access the subconscious, then you can reprogram it, period! "
Mind
Questions
Work
" 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. "
Mind
Imagination
Instructions
" I am constantly asked can anyone be hypnotized, and does it really work? Yes, and it does. "
Does
I Am
Am
" I believe everyone has the ability to be hypnotised, and I think, on different days, different people will have varying levels of susceptibility. "
Will
Think
People
" I buy so much when I go through airports: I buy psychology magazines; I buy 'Mind,' another magazine, 'New Scientist,' 'Scientific America.' "
New
Mind
Psychology
" I can do lightning mathematics quicker than somebody can do them on a calculator. "
Mathematics
Somebody
I Can
" 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. "
People
Focus
I Can
" I don't like people being negative, whining, or moaning. If you're in a situation you're not in control of, just change. "
People
You
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 Can
Words
Pretend
" 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. "
Look
You
Trying
" If you feel depressed, go and buy twenty books about depression. Learn about it; find out how it works. "
Feel
Depression
Find
" If you look at the first TV stuff I did years ago, I've a pretty chubby look about me. I went at it quite hard in the gym at the time. If any footage of me ever came out from those days, I would genuinely die. I did step aerobics to lose the weight, and then I literally ran and ran the weight off on a treadmill. "
Me
Gym
Look
" 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. "
Creativity
Intelligence
Imagination
" 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. "
You
Nobody
Secrets
" I have been working with people on an individual basis for years to help them break habits and deal with anxiety. I've helped people with everything from fears, phobias, and stress right the way through to eczema - anything that is governed by our psyche and inner psychology. "
People
Way
Anxiety
" 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. "
People
Done
Regret
" I haven't hypnotised a whole lot of celebrities, because they're fearful of it. "
Whole
Lot
Fearful
" 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. "
Diet
Three
Week
" 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. "
Back
Edge
Myself
" I love reading about new advances in my industry. I love feeding my brain. "
Reading
New
Love
" 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. "
Night
Research
Ideas
" I mixed hypnosis and magic together to try and create a new area. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. "
Trying
Together
Try
" 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. "
Time
Drive
Evil
" 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. "
Like
Learn
Never
" In 2006, when doing a live stage show in Ireland, I tried for the first time to instantly induct a subject on stage, something I had never done before, nor did I know if it would ever work. The result almost cost me my career; the man I grabbed and instantly inducted went out cold and fell to the floor. "
Time
Me
Work
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