LEARN MENTALISM

“Here's what I say. Listen, repeat, reply. So when you meet someone, most people when they hear a name, they actually didn't forget the name. They actually never knew it in the first place. When they said the name, you didn't actually hear it. I immediately repeat the name twice if I can. What was that? Jared or Jerry? Jared. Got it. If you said it twice, your odds go down by over 90% of forgetting it within the next 10 seconds.”

“Most people add more details when they lie. They add more details to a story. Oh, you know, I want to come but my daughter's this and that. As soon as you start adding in more, you're feeling the need to prove beyond. When people tend to be cut and dry and say, I'm really sorry. I can't make it. Boom. That tends to be true.”

“I realized what's going to differentiate me is when I make it about other people. So the way the story gets told, the way a thing is remembered is much more emotionally impactful if it has something to do with the person watching you. When I do my shows, if you come watch my show, the audience is the star of the show. I don't have a show without the audience.”

“Children instantly give you a sense of your mortality. There's nothing else that did it for me before. As soon as you see the next person, you just realize that you are just one day going to be gone. You don't really see it or feel it as much until you see someone else who's your continuation. Also, somebody that you instantly want them to outlive you.”

“I call it fast forward your feelings where I get caught up in anxious moments of things I don't want to do that I dread. How bad does this feel right now on a scale of 1 to 10? I'm like, eight or nine. I set an alarm for 24 hours from today. I would do the thing I wasn't supposed to right then. When the alarm went off the next day, I would say, how anxious do I feel now? Two. Not even.”

“A lot of the time when people are saying, I wish I remembered more of what I read. I'm like, well, why? Why is it that you want to remember this thing that you're reading? A lot of the time it's that I want to be able to say that I've read it. As soon as I started doing the show, I had a reason to remember things. If you're struggling to remember things that you're learning, look at what's the motivation for doing it.”

“The key thing to understand that's difference between a psychic and me is what I'm doing is learnable, repeatable, and based in science. Those very important things. You can't teach someone to be a psychic. I've never met a psychic that could teach me to also be a psychic.”

“I would leave the table furious. I would feel terrible. I realized, but truly, I can't allow you that power over me. I decided that I now have an agent in my mind. And when I walk up to you, if you don't like me, I don't care at all. The agent handled that. That wasn't me. I didn't take it personal anymore. I truly somehow disconnected the pain associated with rejection and decided to put that on someone else who wasn't my core psyche.”

“So lucid dreaming, you do reality testing. What I used to do is I would wear a watch and I became almost OCD level. I would check my watch every five minutes. It's kind of like the Leonard DiCaprio Inception where he spins it. Then as you're going to bed, hold your arm at your side up. You know that moment when you jolt right before that's when your brain goes into that kind of that's the most suggestible part of your whole night. Now, start self-suggesting. In my mind, I would say, I will remember my dream.”

“I did that race the first year. I did not finish. I got swept, which means I gave up in the middle of the night. I was puking for 8 hours. I went to bed in a hotel, woke up, had lunch, and watched people that were older than me, that were less physically fit than me. I was a 225 marathoner at the time. I'm with a guy who's never run more than a 4-hour marathon. He finished the race when I didn't. That changed me for life because I realized at that moment it had nothing to do with my body. It's like the Matrix when Neo jumps. It's not your body, it's your mind. I gave up.”