Last month the topic for the Mark’s Monthly Message video sent out to members of E-Club Pro dealt with the subject of understanding how spectators may be feeling when we approach them to perform our strolling magic. In this discussion I suggested that most performers present their magic in an extrovert manner which in certain circumstances and for particular spectators might be too much and a bit embarrassing.
One of the E-Club Pro members from the US emailed me to give the opinion that he wondered whether all magicians were in fact extroverts, since many were actually introverts who used magic to perhaps overcome a lack of self confidence.
This raises an interesting point. In the Mark’s Monthly Message I was referring to the fact that most performers present their magic in an outgoing, upbeat manner, not that they were automatically natural extroverts, but it does lead one to consider just how many of us are genuinely naturally self confident. Continue reading “The Extrovert Introverts”
What’s an idea or a magic secret actually worth? After all, if you think about it, without a steady flow of both, magic would gradually wither away, because it is the creation of new ways to do things and fresh types of magic that keeps us all interested and paying attention.