Ask me about being a professional psychic

[wildzer0]

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Do you use general psychic skepticism as some sort of beginning cold read? Or is that too obvious?

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Nah, most people are at least a little skeptical at first, so you just have to try to impress them with a good guess in the first minute or two. The thing is, most people can be convinced at least somewhat. I read an article, and I wish I could remember where it was, where a guy who was purported to have zero charisma and wasn't really trying to sell it gave a reading with no feedback to a crowd of 100 people. He didn't say it was for a specific person, but said that that person would know who it was for. After he did it, everyone filled out a survey. something like 95 of the 100 said that they thought the reading was about them and that he was extremely accurate. He basically used barnum statements (the article I linked you too before goes into pretty specific detail about them)