The other day, I was discussing mind mapping for use in artificial intelligence formats. We got to talking about how the mind works, and why the mind maps that are used by students at school that are printed onto a 2-D piece of paper just don’t seem to work. After this discussion I got to thinking about how the mind reasons, and all the different ways of thinking.

You’ve probably heard the phrase “be in the moment” before. For some people, it’s easy. They’re just in the moment, like a leaf drifting in the wind. These people tend to below key, relaxed, and happy.

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Most people wrongly conclude that as we get older we lose the capacity to reason, think laterally and have a slow degeneration of the brain cells. According to scientific research, this is simply not true. As we get older we tend to take less physical exercise and also get ‘lazy’ using our brain cells for productive and creative activity. This does not have to be the norm!

What exactly is a mentalist and what does it take to become one? Let’s dig in and take a look at not only the history, but the current state of popular mentalists.