Oz Pearlman

It's kind of a cool thing.

You've probably met a lot of famous people, but you're just not at all the person I thought you would be.

So right away, I think vulnerability is a huge one.

Being able to open up to somebody at a moment's notice and being real with them.

Another one is know what resistance is going to occur.

I call it channel your inner mentalist.

Try to think like they think.

Stop thinking like you.

Most of us don't think in terms of benefits-oriented language.

I somehow learned this very young, which is if I go up to a restaurant, because my hustle when I was 14 years old, I started doing magic tricks and I need to buy more magic tricks, was I went to restaurants and I would get a job being a strolling magician at the restaurant.

At 14?

But at 14, I needed to make money.

My folks had gotten divorced, kind of really messy.

And we had no money.

So it's not like I had no disposable income to be like, give me an allowance to buy this.

So for me to keep doing more tricks, which I loved, I needed to go work.

My mom was like, go work.

And so there was another restaurant magician somewhere else in the city.

So I knew that was something you could do and get tips and get parties and print business cards.

But I realized if I go in the restaurant to show them tricks, what makes me special?