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mota Inner circle 1658 Posts |
Mark,
You have done quite a few different things. Now, looking back over the years, if you were to advise a young performer to learn just one trick/skill, which one would it be? |
*Mark Lewis* V.I.P. 1325 Posts |
That is easy. The most important lesson they need to learn is to sell THEMSELVES. Any fool can do tricks and most fools do. To be a good magician you should learn to sell YOURSELF not the trick. The trick is secondary. YOU have to come first. YOU. YOU. YOU. Nothing is more important. As I keep saying the trick is merely a peg to hang your personality on.
The very first thing a young performer needs to do is purchase Expert Card Technique by Hugard and Braue. Don't even look at all the wonderful but difficult card tricks in there. You have something far more important to learn first. And it is so vital that it can affect the rest of your performing life. Turn to page 430. There is a chapter on presentation of magic there. It is the most important chapter I have ever read on the theory of magic. You can take all the other books and throw them away if you really have to but you MUST read this section of this book. The whole chapter is very valuable but that is not what I want the young performer to concentrate on right now. He needs to switch off those bloody DVDs right now and stop fiddling about with those coins and cards. They are unimportant in the long run and grand scheme of things. What he MUST do right now is read carefully the section entitled the PRESENTATION OF MAGIC on pages 430 to 434. They will change his performing life. Those 6 pages can make him a great magician. Far more valuable than any book, trick or DVD. Just those six pages is all you need. Study them thoroughly, breathe in the information until it is second nature to you, live it and digest it. And the most important sentence is this. I will alter it slightly so as to put it into context of this forum. "IT IS NOT THE TRICKS YOU PERFORM THAT ARE IMPORTANT SO MUCH AS THE ILLUSION YOU CREATE ABOUT YOURSELF" That is the most powerful and important sentence ever written in magic and the tragedy is that nobody has noticed it except for little me. It has made me a good magician and some say a great one. It can do the same for you. |
RiffRaff Special user 670 Posts |
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On 2011-05-31 00:00, Mark Lewis wrote: 434-430=6. Is that some numerology thing? |
Destiny Inner circle 1429 Posts |
It's not the subtractions you perform that are important, so much as how you present yourself as a mathematician.
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panlives Inner circle 2087 Posts |
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On 2011-05-31 00:00, Mark Lewis wrote: Hi Mr. Lewis, Your approach reminds me of this book - have you read it? http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Message-Ro......85265425
"Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
"To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did nothing in the night-time." "That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes. |
RajeshLGov Regular user India 149 Posts |
Really nice words Mr. Lewis, it is great inspiration. Reminds me of the quote "A mere trick can become a MIRACLE in the hands of a good Performer". Thanks & Regards, Raj.
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Mr. Woolery Inner circle Fairbanks, AK 2149 Posts |
Page 430
Page 431 Page 432 Page 433 Page 434 Five pages, but it sounds like there's at least six pages' worth of wisdom there. |
*Mark Lewis* V.I.P. 1325 Posts |
Who gives a stuff how many pages there are? Just read the bloody thing.
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