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Mind reading and mentalism is a bit more special than to just randomly 'do a trick' whenever someone asks you to. I believe in the experience of the spectators and if I don't think the mood is right, I won't perform. so anyway..

I decided I would perform some mind reading. So sat at a large table surrounded by about 10 people, and more importantly, the young lady I had my eye on and I proceeded to warm up with some testing cards and rightly guessing which symbol each volunteer had chosen. I could feel the spectators getting excited.

I then moved onto a bit of playing card mind reading which involved reading the minds of volunteers and correctly guessing which playing card they chose. I also mixed in a bit of pseudo-psychological influence for good measure.

For those of you who don't know, cold reading is what psychics mostly use when they give one-on-one demonstrations of 'psychic ability' to people they've just met. So I said to her "Where's the broken door?"

I had performed a miracle.

If you're trying to impress most women, don't completely freak them out, unless the girl's a bit weird, they probably won't enjoy it.

Misdirection takes advantage of the limits of the human mind in order to give the wrong picture and memory of a mentalism mind reading trick. The mind can concentrate on only one thing at a time.”

To cover a move – For one on one mind reading tricks, this is really easy as you only have to distract one person. The reason for asking a question is that the volunteer has to 'go inside' their mind to retrieve the answer. This is what will momentarily distract their attention where you can casually perform a 'move'.

Most mind reading tricks are self-working and are based on pure showmanship and have very little moves so asking a question is usually all that is needed as the move is usually built into the trick to be casual and 'make sense'

This false explanation is very important in mind reading and mentalism magic tricks as it guides them away from the real method you are using.
To give them a false memory of the trick – This is a more advanced form of misdirection and is used by professionals. All professionals script their tricks and know almost word for word what they are going to say.