The Mind Reader’s System for Achieving Almost Every Goal He Sets (Ft. Wayne Hoffman)

Mentalist and illusionist Wayne Hoffman has built an extraordinary career reading minds, performing around the world and creating moments that make people question what's possible. But underneath the illusion is something even more interesting: an obsessive understanding of psychology, goal achievement, gratitude, risk and the small actions that quietly change the course of a life.

Wayne and Marc explore why he chose an unconventional path, what he learned from the highest highs and loneliest moments of performing, his system for turning enormous goals into achievable steps, and why his future self keeps giving him the same instruction: do what you're supposed to do.

And before the conversation ends, Wayne puts his mind-reading skills to the test on Marc!

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Timestamps:

00:00 — The question that opens every interview: “Who are you?”

02:12 — Discovering a hidden world inside a childhood magic shop

04:09 — Why Wayne became obsessed with creating wonder

08:16 — Turning an unusual passion into a career

10:13 — Choosing entrepreneurship instead of the “real job”

10:38 — The $10 business-card coupon that changed Wayne's life

13:13 — Who is your unsung hero?

13:58 — Honouring the man who unknowingly changed everything

17:21 — The moments Wayne realized: “This is actually working”

18:10 — Sitting beside Ellen and feeling like he'd stepped inside his television

20:26 — The strange loneliness behind enormous moments of success

21:29 — Fooling Penn & Teller — and barely remembering what happened next

22:59 — Reverse-engineering your greatest successes

24:15 — Why gratitude changed Wayne's life

26:01 — Could you be happy if everything you achieved disappeared?

26:43 — Is mind reading actually real?

29:55 — How psychology can make someone appear psychic

31:57 — What Wayne is actually doing when he “reads minds”

32:37 — How a professional mentalist trains his mind

35:45 — The one major goal Wayne still hasn't achieved

38:28 — Wayne's system for achieving enormous goals

38:46 — Feel. Define. Plan.

39:57 — The power of asking for the next doable action

40:56 — What would ten-year-old Wayne think of his life today?

42:39 — Meeting his future self

42:49 — “Do what you're supposed to do.”

45:05 — Wayne attempts to read Marc's mind

47:35 — The first impossible prediction

49:35 — And then things get even stranger

50:28 — Why Wayne would still do this work for free

51:19 — Why the world may need more wonder

52:11 — Adult recess and Wayne's deeper purpose

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Music: Clouds - Joakim Karud

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