Reply to Re: Rob's Viewpoints #2 - What's your approach?
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So if I were to put your words in a simpler form, would it be something like "Do not worry about things that aren't worth your time, because all it does is make you less of a person"?
Not necessarily. Everyone has different ways of doing things that works for them.. that doen't make them less of a person. I'm simply saying having a set mind that sees everything as either right or wrong means that you are unavoidably carrying the possibility of failure with you in everything you do.
Here is an interesting scenario that happened to me about three years ago: I saw a magician pickpocket someone's wallet, on stage, as part of their performance, without the person noticing, obviously. This was the first time I saw a pickpocket live, and I was amazed. Of course he was doing it for entertainment, and when he gave it back, the persons reaction was just "Wow". Afterwards I asked him how he did it.. his response was "I just took it", I thought about it and came to the result that, that is actually exactly what he did.. there's no secret, he wasn't hiding anything, he actually just took it from the guy's pocket.
I then went out and tried it about a 3 days later, at the pub. I pick-pocketed a guys wallet right out of his front pocket of his jacket and then gave it back to him and told him he might want to keep his wallet safer in the future. He was shocked and amazed at the same time.
A couple of months later in one of my stage shows I did for the local Christmas pageant, I did this same wallet steal to someone on stage and someone afterwards asked me, where did I learn it. My response was: "I didn't... I just took it out of his pocket." He responded with: "How? pick-pocketing is one of the most difficult things to learn isn't it?" I thought about what he said - and that was a mistake on my part... The next few times I did it, I got caught before I could complete the routine. The reason for this is, I actually created the fear in my own mind that it is difficult and I might get caught.. it is then that I realised the reason I could do it so easily before, is that I hadn't accepted the belief that it was difficult, or that I could fail.
Not necessarily. Everyone has different ways of doing things that works for them.. that doen't make them less of a person. I'm simply saying having a set mind that sees everything as either right or wrong means that you are unavoidably carrying the possibility of failure with you in everything you do.
Here is an interesting scenario that happened to me about three years ago: I saw a magician pickpocket someone's wallet, on stage, as part of their performance, without the person noticing, obviously. This was the first time I saw a pickpocket live, and I was amazed. Of course he was doing it for entertainment, and when he gave it back, the persons reaction was just "Wow". Afterwards I asked him how he did it.. his response was "I just took it", I thought about it and came to the result that, that is actually exactly what he did.. there's no secret, he wasn't hiding anything, he actually just took it from the guy's pocket.
I then went out and tried it about a 3 days later, at the pub. I pick-pocketed a guys wallet right out of his front pocket of his jacket and then gave it back to him and told him he might want to keep his wallet safer in the future. He was shocked and amazed at the same time.
A couple of months later in one of my stage shows I did for the local Christmas pageant, I did this same wallet steal to someone on stage and someone afterwards asked me, where did I learn it. My response was: "I didn't... I just took it out of his pocket." He responded with: "How? pick-pocketing is one of the most difficult things to learn isn't it?" I thought about what he said - and that was a mistake on my part... The next few times I did it, I got caught before I could complete the routine. The reason for this is, I actually created the fear in my own mind that it is difficult and I might get caught.. it is then that I realised the reason I could do it so easily before, is that I hadn't accepted the belief that it was difficult, or that I could fail.
