How a Wizard Creates Time and How You Can Do It too

The neuroscience behind magic and time

Adolfo Ramírez Corona
9 min readNov 8, 2019

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Do you need more time for a side project? Do you want to study free courses on the internet? Do you want to write, draw, paint or read more? A podcast, a newsletter, a blog?

We always need more time. There are a lot of recommendations and tips on the internet to hack time.

Wake up earlier, go to sleep later, take advantage of your commuting time, make lists, use boards, focus more, get away from your cellphone, etc.

But all those recipes help you to manage time not to create time.

To create time you need a magician or a sorcerer. Or at least, to understand how magic works and make use of it.

I’m not a magician, a sorcerer’s apprentice, perhaps. I'm a psychotherapist, sure. But, today I’m going to share with you some of the magic recipes I have used to create time to study, write and develop some personal projects.

(I have to confess that these magic tricks are neuroscience-based, but you wouldn’t read them if I told you that in the first place, right?)

How magic works

«Every time you perform a magic trick, you’re engaging in experimental…

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Adolfo Ramírez Corona

Author, psychotherapist, coach—Human behavior, UX, media & audiences—Father, husband, meditator—Courses & coaching: antifragilewriting.com—More adolforismos.com