This is Steve Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, Clicking Dirty Tips to Work Less and do more.

I'm here today with Jim Carroll, author of Ultimate Memory Magic, for a wonderful interview on how we can remember anything.

I'm here with Jim Carroll, author of the book, Ultimate Memory Magic.

And Jim's a pretty amazing and impressive guy.

We've been chatting before this interview.

He's done a gazillion things.

He's sort of unbelievable when it comes to the mental powers kind of thing, both real and

imaginary, and we'll talk about that in a moment.

Welcome, Jim.

Hey, Steven, how are you?

Pleasure to be here with you. I am excellent, and I'm all the more excellent because you're here.

Now, I was looking through your website, and we were talking a little bit, and one of the things your website says is that you're a mentalist, and for people who don't know what mentalism is,

it is people who

do acts in which they appear to do amazing feats of mental achievement. They may or may not

actually be doing those amazing feats. And you've done things like predicting lottery numbers,

you do amazing memory things. For you, where is the line between that? Because it

sounds like not only do you do mentalism in the illusionist sense, but you also have some

genuine kind of unbelievable mental disciplines that you've trained yourself to or that have

naturally developed. For you, where is that dividing line? Which things can you do for real and

which things are an act and are showmanship for you, where is that dividing line? Which things can you do for real and which things

are an act and are showmanship for you? That's an excellent question. And to me, all magicians

that venture into the world of mentalism, as you said, you're performing feats, extraordinary

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