THE NOTEBOOK
Selected writings from my personal notebook
Sleight of hand, psychology, the books I’m reading (usually over and over), the art of practice and how magic makes life better.
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The Sneaky Secret To Unlimited Creativity
You are in luck, I say to the girl standing next to me. We’re down at the NJ shore and I am pointing to two airplanes in the sky. I “cover” both planes up and say: Pick one of them I am going to make the plane she selects disappear. She points to my right…
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Zen And The Art Of The Simple Switch
I am standing in my living room, barefoot and in shorts and a t-shirt flipping cards back and forth in a fiddly way. I’m practicing a thing created by Paul Harris, called the Simple Switch. Apparently, the irony is that it is really really hard (thankfully, it is actually a switch). If memory serves me,…
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Secret Origin of The 100 Book Test Project
I am standing outside the front door with a book no one has ever seen before in my hand, and one small trickle of sweat boiling up on my forehead. It’s not that I’m nervous exactly. I guess in a weird way I am. I’ve worked on this book for a long time and I…
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