How did you get to be so good at mind reading and psychological tricks? I can usually tell if someone's lying, but you seem to be able to pick up on minor signals to be able to tell exactly what's going on in their mind. Did that take a long time to learn?
Also, what age were you when you started learning magic? I started when I was 7.
P.S. I got into your show and I'm only 10. It was fantastic. Your seance on TV was brilliant too.

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Thanks Mikelo. Very nice of you to post. And great picture.
Pleased you liked the seance - I did too. Had no idea they were going to be quite that scared, and I kept going off to giggle and jump up and down with the film crew in the ad breaks.

It did take me a long time to learn, but as you know, it's not all quite what I say it is. I started off as a hypnotist and then got into magic when I realised I didn't want to work as a hypnotist full-time. But magic teaches you a way of thinking and a love of giving people a feeling of amazement, and these things stuck with me. So I tried mixing some of the magic things I had learnt with the psychological things I had learnt to come up with what I'm doing now. It's not real mind-reading: it's normally more about creating the hopefully amazing and enjoyable feeling that mind-reading has just happened.
But good luck with it all - it's lots of fun.

Derren.