#056 Aidan O'Sullivan - Personal Growth, Creativity and Wizardry

The Oliver Schirach Show

Strange, Growing, Fun that is how we start this episode with Aidan O’Sullivan. This episode’s guest Aidan O’Sullivan is a podcast host, business coach, mind-magician, mentalist, mind reader and a wizard. Or short @AidanTheWizard as you can find him on the social medias. Besides that he loves to learn and grow, reading books, taking classes and then bundle it all into his package to coach individuals and businesses with his ever growing knowledge on personal growth and psychology. Or shares it with his audience on “The Successful Mentalist” or “The Stop Existing Show” Podcasts.

This is the first of three interviews I had with “The Successful Mentalist” hosts Aidan and Ashley. So you are up for a big treat of weirdness, deep insights on how to pivot your life and career and as usual for my interviews you also get tips and tricks on how to improve your creativity and innovation.

Colour: A see through pencil with the visible ink cartridge in the core.

Fun Facts: Aidan is obsessed with music. He listens to all kind of music from nature sounds, pop to hard core electronics. More over he wants to create his own music especially to start his own shows.

Talking about:

• Using real psychology for his magic tricks
• How to find out what is fun
• Try new things. Read books about random subjects.
• His satisfaction of serving others
• It’s fun adding value with magic
• His way into magic
• Hypnoses, pick pockets as 12 year old to show the faults of the humans mind
• Psychology in school and how he embed it into his show
• Approaching things from a new angle
• Reason to start coaching
• How 2020 has changed his life
• Hitting the wall with a 9-5pm Job
• Mindvalley, Lifebook and his work forward
• Slowing down to speed up
• Wanting to work full time as magician based on the wrong WHY
• The most important question is to ask “WHY you want to do/achieve something”
• Magic is more fun now, his passion & heart project without the stress of having to book gigs and earn money with it
• His current obsession with creativity and innovation
• Their latest teaching with creativity

Creativity:

• Can be trained. The more you do the more you generate creative ideas
• Sit down and give yourself permission to be creative. Write your ideas down and then work with them

What is Innovation:

It is testing ideas out. Taking action on ideas, try them out and get feedback.

“Not every idea is great. But every idea is valid”

You have to give things time. Giving time by pointing to your target and then shoot. Ideas are the pointing and shooting is the action.

Call to Action:

Give yourself permission to be creative

Advice:

Everything that you are doing is quite right. Listen to other people and learn. Take action or don’t take action if it doesn’t feel right.

Reach out:

Aidan O’Sullivan @AidanTheWizard

Podcasts

“The Stop Existing Show” www.stopexisting.com

“The Successful Mentalist” www.Thesuccessfulmentalist.com

Links/Referrence:

• Scott Barry Kaufman - “Wired to create:Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind”
• Eckhart Tolle - “The power of now”
• Documentation - “The Creative Mind” Netflix
• Charley Morley Lucid Dreaming

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