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#85: Neuromagic & Illusion - Stephen Macknik, PhD & Susana Martinez-Conde, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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How to Train a Magician to Be an Expert

Magicians themselves have to train the slat of hand technique to the point in which he becomes unconscious for them, that it doesn't require conscious control. There's a famous magician and magic theorist named juanta mari who says every spectator is a telepath. It has to be that the magician does it so automatically that they don't engage any conscious thought, so that the audience remains unsuspecting. I think this is related also to the fact that doing for children versus adults, is a very different thing. And different magicians have different experts for these different kinds of groups. So you have children's magicians for kids under five, and, ah, and that's not just because,

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