What is the best thing that I love about my work? Interacting with people using every possible intervention tool I know. Both on a conscious and subconscious level: performance magic, inductions, comedy, role playing/improvization, physical/action metaphors.
What is my idea of perfect happiness?Having mental/energy sex with people. Which means playing together producing new reality.
What is my greatest fear?To be buried alive without anyone knowing where I am.
What is the trait that I most deplore in myself? Using too many words.
Which living persons in my profession do I most admire? In magic: Eugene Burger, Jeff McBride. In performance art in general: Todd Rungren, Kevin Spacey, Billy Connolly, Eddie Izzard
What is my greatest extravagance? Binge watching films and tv shows for hours and hours while eating tons of fruit and fried chicken.
On what occasion would I lie? I use applied fantasy, applied psychology and applied biology. That includes, especially in performance magic, all kinds of lies to produce an effect and magical/transformational experience.
What is the thing that I dislike the most in my work? Traveling to and from a performance and doing accounting.
When and where was I the happiest, in my work? In rooms that pick up every level of my performance: the magic, mentalism, comedy, spiritual messages, comedy. And want to play with me.
If I could, what would I change about myself? Using less words and using the silences in between words more.
What is my greatest achievement in work? Having reached tens of thousands of people all over the world from many different cultures and adjusting my work and myself to local culture. Being able to do successful shows about the same theme in Hollywood and Las Vegas for adults but also in Capetown for kids and all walks of life in
between.
What do the words ‘The Financial Freedom to Create’ mean to me? Being completely without financial concerns and paperwork so I can fully focus on the work.
Where would I most like to live? Right where I live now. Very close to Amsterdam in green city and a small but wonderful house.
What is my most treasured possession? My guts to explore, try out new things and fail forward.
What is my most marked characteristic? My ability to improvize using whatever is around, in a MacGyver type of way, to create a magical experience.
What is my most inspirational location, in my city? The lakeshore, the combination of city/green
What is my favourite place to eat and drink, in my city? The Boathouse
What books influenced my life and how? The Neverending Story. A kid’s book about psychological alchemy.
Who are my favorite writers? Marten Toonder a satirical graphic novellist. Godfried Bomans, a satirical novellist.
You Only Die Once. What music would I listen on my last day? Anything by Todd Rundgren. The Rites of Spring by Igor Stravinsky. Especially when watching the
ballet by Pina Bausch.
Who is my hero or heroine in fiction? Batman
Who are my heroes and heroines in real life? Marja Lingsma (my wife), Todd Rundgren, Patti Smith, David Byrne, the Wachowski Sisters
Which movie would I recommend to see once in a lifetime? The Wizard of Oz, The Matrix
What role plays art in my life and work?Apart from creating performance art, I’ve always approached my life as well as myself a piece of art. Which means that I continuously envision myself and moments in life as a creation and start putting
that together. When I completed that vision, I envision the next moment or the next version of myself.
Who is my greatest fan, sponsor, partner in crime? Marja Lingsma
Whom would I like to work with in 2017? Anyone who I can improv and play with.
Which people in my profession would I love to meet in 2017? No one left since I already met all of my heroes and worked with them closely.
What project, in 2017, am I looking forward to work on? Working with my TheCreationGame® concepts and tools to help people create their way from A to B,
especially when B doesn’t exist yet. Selling the TheCreationGame® deck (www.georgeparker.nl / http://www.thecreationgame.com). Finishing and publishing new books and tools for the public.
Where can you see me or my work in 2017? I mostly work in-company but I’m also producing open subscription experiences and masterclasses (The Big Day of Creativity, The Alchemy of Presentation, Alchemical Transformation intensives, Theatershows)
What do the words “Passion Never Retires” mean to me?
Obsession with transformation, transmutation, transcendence and always pursuing new ways and forms to practice that.
Which creative heroes should Peter invite to tell their story? Marja Lingsma. Magic realistic photographic art.
How can you contact me?
george@georgeparker.nl
http://www.thecreationgame.com
+31651108415
https://www.facebook.com/CorporateAlchemist
https://www.linkedin.com/in/parkergeorge
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