Well, we have to face facts. Certain personality types are attracted to certain professions (I’m using the term loosely). People attracted to any scientific, functional, or mechanistic profession are probably going to be those who like to demonstrate knowledge and mastery of a subject. They are motivated by doing things and achieving results.

My assessment is that psychics, naturopaths and feng shui consultants are probably more motivated by relationships and influencing people. It’s a profoundly political career choice.

Now add in feedback and success selection into the mix. How do you survive as a psychic? It cannot be due to your stellar success in predicting the future, methinks! Instead you have to establish a bond with your clientele and read them carefully. Tell them enough to interest and intrigue them, but not so much that they don’t need your services any more.

I gotta think that only the really gifted psychological manipulators can survive as a psychic. Because no one needs their services unless the customers can be persuaded that they do! It’s like the Oracle at Delphi. Eventually they became so famous that everyone had to go there, especially anyone rich, powerful or famous or aiming to be those things.

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@Mike Wagner – that may be true for the doctor, but what about the motor mechanic? I suspect the Smartass Factor might be working there.

Ah, yes, but motor mechanics are “notorious” for trying to rip everyone off, aren’t they?

It’s the few bad apples etc.

What’s funny is when one of them tries to rip off my finacée – she has a degree in mechanical engineering and grew up maintaining her own motorbike. She taught me almost everything I know about vehicle maintenance.

@Mike Wagner – that may be true for the doctor, but what about the motor mechanic? I suspect the Smartass Factor might be working there.

@Cairnos – just be thankful it was the cat that was sick, not her mother.

If I was handling this customer & if I thoughtof this quickly enough I’d have siad :

“Ma’am, your pyschic must actually be being clairvoyant here & seeing the future. You haven’t been robbed *yet* & will have to wait until it happens in your future before you do anything – but because of your clairvoyant pyschics warning we’re checking all our staff & putting an extra security camera in your room so you can rest assured the predicted future won’t happen which willprove your pyschic a liar!”

Hopefully that will confuse and impress her enough to think again .. Although I guess playing along here may not help too much, it does seem this customer’s rationality looks like a lost cause.

When I was a flight attendant, we would be running really late or have bad weather and before we were even done boarding people would demand to know when we would land. When I made the observation that our arrival time entirely depended on when we left, no one seemed to understand that they were asking questions to which I had no way to answer without psychic ability of some sort.

Huh. The passengers have no way of knowing why the plane is late or what information the flight crew possesses. They aren’t psychics either. It’s a rather regular event that transportation estimates delays, as for example in trains where the failure of such is the exception.

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What a funny & at the same time sad little story.

A psychic is “born with these powers” so it’s not a classism thing. They can pick a psychic from all walks of life. A doctor on the other hand is now a rich know-it-all, who may talk down to you if you like to put a little quicksilver in your scotch to make your ticker tick better

Now if only firebugs came with a fetish for psychics, maybe we could kill two birds with one stone.

The methods (legal and illegal) the author suggests are used by mediums and psychics are surprising but believable.

i still don’t get why this super natural stuff and religion still around today.

anyway guys i don’t know if you guys have heard of patcondell hes really funny and whats more a like mind person.

here’s his youtube page
http://www.youtube.com/user/patcondell

cheers phil and may-thanks for stick up for the truth.
these psychic keep getting worse, the uk now has a law which means there just for entertainment and should not be taken literary which is a step in the right direction. but with all the cheep space on the Astra 2 tv satellite we have a a ever bulging premium rate phone in physics who give out all sort of bad information with terror cards and other means devices.

a another worrying trend ive begin to see here in the uk is psychic who are taking a punch at being veterinarians .

cheers phil

When I was a flight attendant, we would be running really late or have bad weather and before we were even done boarding people would demand to know when we would land. When I made the observation that our arrival time entirely depended on when we left, no one seemed to understand that they were asking questions to which I had no way to answer without psychic ability of some sort. I did feel bad for them, and I felt bad for myself because all of our futures were linked but they were also all equally uncertain. I would have been ruling the world if I had access to the information people thought I did.

At least the hotel customer service person only had to be on the phone with the crazy, not face to face and stuck in a metal tube with them miles above the earth.