The week after I finished school, I drove to Los Angeles to begin my career as a professional magician. 毕业一周后，我开车去洛杉矶开始我的职业魔术师生涯。 I have never held another job. 我从来没有做过别的工作。 Fo...
I stood on a boat in the middle of the river wearing nothing but biking shorts and a thick snarl of chains, padlocks, and weights around my wrists and ankles. 我站在河中央的一条船上，只穿着自行车运动短裤，戴着一串厚厚的链...
Something incredible had happened. 不可思议的事情发生了。 I might have caused it, but it had not come from me. 可能是我造成的，但不是来源于我。 I had inadvertently tapped into something visceral and wild: 我无意中发现了...
She marched toward me and demanded to know what was going on. 她朝我走了过来，问我发生了什么事。 The coin vanished for her too. 她也看到硬币不见了。 Do it again,she said, and I did. 再来一次，她说，我又做了一遍。...
One of the lessons you learn very early on as a magician is that the most amazing part of a trick has nothing to do with the secret. 作为魔术师，你很早就学会了一个道理，那就是魔术中最神奇的部分没有什么秘密可言。...
I became a magician by accident. When I was nine years old learned how to make a coin disappear. 我成为一名魔术师是一个偶然。九岁的时候我学会了如何让硬币消失。 I'd read The Lord of the Rings and ventured into the adult...
The subjects were also wired to machines that captured their brains' electrical activity. 受试者还被连接到能够捕捉他们脑电活动的机器上。 A second and a half or two seconds before the conscious insight, we see this burst of acti...
WLLIAM MILLER, PHD, emeritus professor of psychology and psychiatry at an the University of New Mexico, 新墨西哥大学心理学和精神病学名誉教授威廉米勒， interviewed people who had experienced sudden realizations that led to life...
Had I been a half-second slower, the whole mass of it would have come into the car, Schulz says. 舒尔茨说：如果我再慢半秒钟，麋鹿就会撞到车。 I have no doubt I'd have been decapitated. 毫无疑问，我会死的。 Several moto...
MOST OF THE TIME, ideas develop from the steady percolation and evaluation of thoughts and feelings. 大多数时候，创意从思维和感觉的稳定渗流和评价发展而来。 But every so often, if you're lucky, a blockbuster notion breaks th...
