Last night, I watched an old Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh movie on Houdini's life. I suspect it was reasonably accurate, but dramatized a bit. I liked the movie and Janet Leigh was an attractive part. It occurred to me while watching the movie that no matter what Houdini did, he always came back to follow his inner voice, which told him to be a magician.
I am not suggesting that if you listen to your inner voice you will magically become famous like Houdini. Certainly, I am aware of people who have listened to their voices and are now in prison. I suspect there are competing voices speaking inside most of us.
More to the point, I am suggesting that every time Houdini strayed from the path, his inner voice brought him back to his real love-Magic. For example, he stopped his magician's career for awhile. He worked in a factory that made locks for vaults. His inner voice could not keep Houdini quiet and he leveraged this knowledge into his capability to escape from vaults. He learned, what most of us do not know, it is easier to break out of a vault from the inside than break into a vault from the outside. That singular piece of information helped him launch his career. No matter what Houdini learned, he was able to adapt new knowledge to becoming a better magician.
His inner voice always had the microphone on. If we can learn to listen to it and act accordingly, I am convinced ours has the mic on too.
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