Confessions of a Conjuror

by Derren Brown

The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

Tracing a path from childhood pleasures to adult skills is an exercise in hindsight and pattern-finding similar to the way most of history is made: in the light of the present we pick and choose events which lead most conveniently to the desired end point of the here and now; we then mistake that all-too-convenient narrative for truth.