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#679: Simon Coronel, World Champion of Magic — Quitting the Day Job, The Delights of the Magic Castle, Finding Glitches in Reality, Learning How to Use Your Own Brain, and Worshiping at the Altar of Wonder

The Tim Ferriss Show

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The Importance of Empathy in Magic

A lot of good things begin from empathy, understanding the experience of the other person or people in so many ways. Once you learn how it's done, it becomes very hard to remember what it was like to not know how it was done. I run to many magicians who have long ago lost touch with the power of these illusions. It is very hard to maintain that sense of what it is actually like to literally see the magic,. To see the thing that looks impossible, because you can't once you know.

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