Leadership Magic Becoming an Indispensable Leader by Transforming Your Business Relationships (Part Two) by Rod Robison What is the difference between a leader and an indispensable leader? And why does it matter? Effective leadership is the key to most any successful career. Whether your business is a one-person enterprise or [...]
Leadership Magic Becoming an Indispensable Leader by Transforming Your Business Relationships (Part One) by Rod Robison None of us is irreplaceable but we should all strive to be indispensable to the business we work for or own. As I drove away after receiving and accepting my first job offer in [...]
You Have a Magical Key to Overcoming Fear (And it’s no Illusion) Does fear ever hold you back from pursuing or accomplishing your dreams? It’s been said that the word “fear” can be better understood when translated into the acronym False Evidence Appearing Real. Fear is our body’s natural [...]
When I picked up the phone one evening just over ten years ago one of the last people I expected to hear on the other end was my magician friend Scott Wolf. It’s very possible you’ve seen him before. A video of one of his magic routines gone horribly wrong went viral on YouTube and [...]
In 1941 our world was in trouble. A crazed dictator and his vicious war machine were trampling the freedoms and lives of millions. World War Two had come to America. A half a world away, in the city of Indianapolis, a skinny kid named Elmer Ellsworth Robison – my dad - decided to join thousands [...]
There was something curiously familiar about the wrinkled little man. He was one of those people you see once and, because of their singular distinctiveness, you never forget. And yet, I had. With a few hours to spare before my flight back home, I was strolling along the sidewalk around Indianapolis’ Monument Circle. Once a [...]
Magic Of The The Mind Read the large, bold phrase just above this sentence. “Magic of the Mind,” right? Most people don’t see the "something" different. If you didn't, read it one more time. Now what do you see? In my shows when I hold up a large version of these words only about 5% [...]
It was a miracle as far as I was concerned. But then I was only three years old and I’d never seen a magic trick before. Sitting across from my Uncle Bob at the wooden kitchen table in my grandparents’ house in Indianapolis, I was about to be introduced to the impossible. “Wanna see a [...]
Tucson mentalist and magician Rod Robison will release his new book Unmasking the Masquerade: Three Illusionists Investigate Deception, Fear, and the Supernatural, in the fall of 2016. The book is co-authored by two other magicians, Toby Travis and Adrian Van Vactor, who, with Robison, have been performing professionally for over 70 combined years. All three [...]
For well over a hundred years psychic investigations have examined claims of everything from spoon bending to remote viewing to foretelling the future. Some experiments seemed on the surface to be promising. But replicability, the ability to repeat the same experiment and get the same results over and over, has been a problem. As with [...]
