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Fin · 05-07-2012, 09:37 PM

I agree with OliveroG. There is a saying that goes roughly like this: "a professional magician becomes a master of just a few tricks, while an amateur learns to do a hundred tricks badly".

If you are a professional, performing for paying audiences on a regular basis you owe it to yourself and to them to have mastered those tricks you are showing them. But if you are only performing for friends, then they will see your best tricks and then what? So obviously you'll want to learn more so that you have "new" things to show them all the time.

Personally, I'm not a professional, but I try to get a balance. I learn lots of new tricks all the time, but I have a set few tricks that are for performance, that I am trying to master. I am pretty patient, and not worried about showing my friends something new every time I see them, there is no rush! I'd rather show them 3 perfect tricks in their lifetime than 20 average ones every time we meet.

05-07-2012, 09:37 PM	#3
Fin Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 530	I agree with OliveroG. There is a saying that goes roughly like this: "a professional magician becomes a master of just a few tricks, while an amateur learns to do a hundred tricks badly". If you are a professional, performing for paying audiences on a regular basis you owe it to yourself and to them to have mastered those tricks you are showing them. But if you are only performing for friends, then they will see your best tricks and then what? So obviously you'll want to learn more so that you have "new" things to show them all the time. Personally, I'm not a professional, but I try to get a balance. I learn lots of new tricks all the time, but I have a set few tricks that are for performance, that I am trying to master. I am pretty patient, and not worried about showing my friends something new every time I see them, there is no rush! I'd rather show them 3 perfect tricks in their lifetime than 20 average ones every time we meet.