Is Magic Real?

When I read Wallace D. Wattle’s “The Science of Getting Rich” and realized there was something important lurking in its pages, I could have created a million different acronyms to help remember that essence. This morning I was drawn to think about why “magic” appealed to me, and thought I’d share it.

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O.K. The M.A.G.I.C. formula (Modeling X Action X Gratitude X Intention X Confidence) gets you into the game. Basically, if you are a “zero” in even one category, you are dead in the water. It is a “stochastic marketing and sales” technique as well. Do it, and opportunities arise seemingly from nowhere at all.

I don’t understand why, but have a theory. To express it, I will have to apply a clumsy physics analogy.

When I was a kid, I thought gravity worked like magnetism, like a direct force pulling on an object. Then I saw a drawing, or heard a lecture, or read a book, or saw a special. I have no idea where the clarification came from. But it had to do with the notion that a mass bends the fabrick of space-time, so that is more like sinkholes on a pool table. Roll a ball slowly across the table, and if one gets too close to the “sinkhole” you slide in and can’t get out. More energy? You might well slide right past. Might even sling-shot in another direction.

I know, I know, this is clumsy. But it’s the closest I can come to understanding what I think the M.A.G.I.C. formula does.

All right. Try this: in the arena of interpersonal relationships, “personal…