This week, I accidentally became a fake construction worker…
Here’s some context:
Every day, I take the same 2-hour walk around Bitola.
At one point in this walk, we always pass a football stadium that’s currently under construction and around halfway done.
Usually, we just walk past it, but this time, we decided to see what would happen if we just strolled in and said hello to a few people.
Pretending we belonged there and knew what we were doing, we walked up to the nearest worker and asked him how the work was going.
“Good,” he told us.
He then invited us to follow him inside the stadium.
We tracked behind him for a few minutes, making small talk as we went.
We climbed up some steps and followed our new friend down a dusty hallway until we met a young man.
The young man looked us up and down, and then suggested we talk outside.
We agreed and followed him back down the steps and out into the construction yard.
“So,” he said.
“What’s your proposal?”
That was the moment we realized our mistake…
Too late, we realized we were talking to the head engineer overseeing the entire construction. He thought we were there to talk business, and maybe even to make him some offers.
Thankfully, he was totally cool with it when we told him we were just there to look around.
We chatted for a while, and even ended by agreeing to meet up again and talk some more.
What’s the lesson here?
Sometimes it’s easy to assume that it’s so unlikely something will happen that it’s not even worth asking.
(like trying to get a magic gig with Nike, or asking to meet with our favorite professional magicians)
But sometimes, all you need to do is figuratively walk up and ask…and the results will surprise you.
For example, if you’ve ever wanted to talk with Andi Gladwin, Pit Hartling, or even Derren Brown, you’d be surprised by how many of them will happily agree to meet you either online or in-person for an interview or even just a chat.
Ask and ye shall receive, right?
Ok.
That’s the thought for this week.
I hope you enjoyed it 🙂
I’ll see you next week.