“Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that’s inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade,”

I’ve studied people with uncanny abilities – card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here’s the thing: These weren’t innate skills – they were acquired.

There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called synesthesia, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.

Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain’s bossy left hemisphere is muted.

We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we’re constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we’re unaware of it.

The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.

I’ve studied people with uncanny abilities – card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here’s the thing: These weren’t innate skills – they were acquired.

I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.

Trust in your abilities and you’re the author of your own destiny.

I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.