A day ago I met an IPS officer. He is a good friend of mine. He is posted in Kerala and his name is Prateesh Kumar. He was here on a short visit to Mumbai so we decided to take a stroll around seaside just to remember the old times and talk about other stuffs of life. We decided to have lunch and dinner together and he was paying the money at every shop we went as I had not a single rupee in my pocket. I told him about my financial conditions which are not very bright and I told him that when you are in film line, nothing is certain and there are always good and bad phases that awaits you. You don’t get monthly cheques and there is no certainty from where your next cheque is coming from. He asked me whether he should loan me some money and I told him that I never borrow money from anyone. He understands my ego and self-esteem as we are childhood friends and our families are close together so he stopped insisting much. But he did ask me what were the problems I was facing and I to...
I didn't understand magic until I started doing it. I started doing it because i had to do something to gather the attention of people around me. Initially how i started was by reading books on it. I downloaded all the books that i could download on the internet and transferred it to my iPad. I read few of them and they literally changed my perception of Magic from merely a gimmick and lost art to something that one could apply in real life to get miraculous results. Magic is everywhere and we witness it everyday, we juts don't notice it. People getting rich and successful, boys having beautiful girls, low key politicians winning elections, places getting clean on its own, it is all magic but we don't categorize it as magic because we don't know the performer. Magic is an event, apart of which is obscured from the vision and knowledge of the spectator. One of the key elements of Magic is Belief. Now i didn't know that. I thought Magic is all about tricks...
Most people venture in business without knowing one basic formula - how to deal with people . In any business, you cannot escape dealing with people so it is imperative if one understands a little bit about human psychology before venturing in the world of business. Below given are the Ten Commandments which were postulated by a French conman Victor Lustig about conning people. The methods he used to con people in his time were the basis of these commandments. When I first read about him and his rules, I realized these rules not just work in the world of conman but also work like miracle in the world of logical legal businesses as well. These rules are about human behavior and understanding of person one is dealing with. It does reek of manipulation sometimes but speaking truthfully, business dealing and negotiations are all about manipulations and smart thinking. These rules if used wisely, can help to control one in a business meeting and help to influence and intimidate other pers...
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