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For this episode I got the seldom chance to have two guests at the same time. Aidan The Wizard O’Sullivan with his co-host and business partner Ashley Green Mindreader. Two young mind magicians finding their niche, combining business and magic entertainment, they are able to help magicians all around the world with their project “The Successful Mentalist”. By offering a podcast, blogging, courses, a private community, conventions, coaching, networking events, and ever growing new ways to deliver information to the magicians world wide. So they can improve all their lives by 2040. To do so they had to take their dream, of becoming full-time magicians, and put it on the side burner.
This episode has been as much fun as the two previous ones and again full with actionable tips to improve your life. Ashley and Aidan are so complimentary in many ways and full of energy that I am sure anyone listening to this episode will learn something new that you can apply right away.
The whole interview starts rather weird with us talking about Ashley’s weird objects and Aidan’s objection towards them.
Topics we got to talk about
- How they met
- Love for entertainment, mind reading
- Working mostly virtually together
- Why they connected more than the others in their magician group
- Their similarities (business, mind reading ideas) and opposites in execution and style
- How they complete each other. Opposites attract each other
- Their diversity is working well together, they complete each other in what they love to do it
- We look at their separate strengths
- How they started TSM. Action beats perfection
- Their magician convention and how Ashley got 550 people to subscribe to it in a short time
- Impostor syndrome
- Innovation at TSM
- Working faster and not just harder
- Don’t try to get everything perfect, get your ideas out and find out what is working, what are people searching for
- Fancy graphics are not that important
- Entertainment business during Covid Lock Down
- The beliefs in the magic world they want to change
- Biohacking
- Identity-shift, change your identity to improve your life
- How we forget the hard work to get to the amazing things in life
- And the opposite the ones that don’t get were they want and focus on failures and forget the great things they did
- Being grateful for the hardships and good times
- The effect from our education system on our creativity. School teaches you to fit in and not to live your life
- The story of a school that was able to avoid the closing by using creativity as the centre of their education
- Creativity what it is and how to train it
- Who will stand in your way to change and who will support you
- Who will stand in your way to change and who will support you
- Re-contracting your friendship
- Their mission statement
- Goal Setting
- Big Hairy Audacious Goals. Having a big vision. You need to shift your identity to make that happen
- The successful people have always a higher purpose
- Aidan’s three MTP “Massively Transformative Purpose”. Missions he wants to have at least started during his lifetime. Change his identity and become the guy that can do those things. Letting himself being pulled by his MTP’s
- 1.) “Give life back to a world that is just existing”
- 2.) ”Redefine the global perception of magic as an art form”
- 3.) “Cultivate a lifestyle that allows me to pursue my passions” which translate into “Do cool shit”
- “Knowing the actually reason why you are doing anything”
- Too many make their hobby to another office job because they don’t know what they really want
- “Do it because you enjoy it”
- Who is learning to become a magician. Usually the introverts like Ashley
- And what does Aidan as extrovert getting from magic
- How introverts and extroverts get their attention by being a magicia
- It’s all about the audience. It’s not about you
- We care about putting smiles on faces. Were’s other people care on being on TV
- Tips and skills for a good performance
- Storytelling, variety, connecting with the audience, care about the audience, be good in what you are doing (you need to be actually good)
What is TSM Ashley and Aidan offering to the magic world
- Fresh perspective on an age old hobby
- Shift mindsets from the old way thinking
- Wanna see people do well. See the people live the life they wanna have
- Improve the quality of life from magicians around the world by 2040
- Offering podcast, blogging, courses, private community, SoMe, convention, coaching (group and individual), networking event, and finding new ways to deliver informations.
Goal Setting:
Clear goal setting involves Deep reflection, not just on your previous year but on your life, yourself. => That way you bring more on the table about you and what you want than anyone else could. You know your strengths and weaknesses. I want this and that … because it helps me with this, because I can do that… because it clicks here and there.
Reach out:
The Successful Mentalist
www.Thesuccessfulmentalist.com
- Search for
- Aidan O’Sullivan @AidanTheWizard
- The Stop Existing Show
- www.stopexisting.com
- hwww.aidanthewizard.co.uk/
- Ashley Green Mindreader, @greenmindreader
- www.ashleygreenofficial.com
Links/Referrence:
- Stephen Pressfield - “Do the work”
- Stephen Kotler - “The art of Impossible”
- Stephen Kotler - Mindvalley Quest “The Habit of Ferocity”
- TSM Episode “The Art Of Public Speaking” with Eric Edmeades TSMP #039 https://open.spotify.com/episode/2FlghAeXiX9myHczgaLdKf?si=PDwEbzHPQK2iFy6ugA8CTg
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