Understanding The True Value Of Secrets

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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.

Given that magic cannot exist without its secrets, I find it surprising that there are some magicians who do not seem to truly value these essential core elements. They seem to think that HOW something is done is less important than the clever little gizmo that actually helps to get the magic done.

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Recreating A Sense Of Wonder

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When you are involved in magic on a regular basis, either as a performer or even as an informed observer, it becomes increasingly difficult for magic effects to recreate in your mind that stunning feeling of total wonder that it can cause in the uninitiated.

If you think back to when you were a child, perhaps, and you experienced magic for the first time, those feelings of awe, amazement and the thrill of witnessing the impossible, would have really excited you. But as with any experience, the more you have it the more likely it is that you will become gradually immune to the effects of the situation, and so it is with magic.

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