Comments On Comments 28. Finding Motivation Again for 2022.

Hello, welcome to Real Magic View, a live stream. First one in a long time, except for when I went for a walk and did one a day before Christmas when I felt ropey as hell, but there you go. Welcome, hello, it's lovely to be here again. Lovely to be back to work, really. And I'm gonna talk about getting back to work or getting back to the things we love doing, especially after the holidays for a lot of us. And we're gonna do the comments on comments. So I've got some comments on the Cuban bottle, which I forgot I did between the last comments on comments. So we'll talk about the Cuban bottle and we should talk about the interview with John Graham a little bit, and I'll talk bang on about various things. But first of all, a thank you. Well, first of all, let's do the important things. No, the least important things, really. CarveMagicCourse.com, go and see that. That's what makes this all happen. And that's what I'm putting a majority of my time into now. It is gonna be changed from CarveMagicCourse.com to something else soon, but the links will still work. Do check it out, over 500 videos now, live coaching every single week, and guest people coming on. We had Danny Goldsmith just before Christmas, Kainoa Ha bottle we got coming up. Oh, I wonder if I pronounced that right. I'm doing it Kainoa, it's not Kainoa, Kainoa. We have Fennik, which is great, and we're teaching one of his palms on the live session tonight after this. So get over to CarveMagicCourse.com, have a look at it. And had something else to say. Oh yeah, like and subscribe. Someone said the other day, there was a comment. I wonder if I can find it, or maybe I did read it, about he hates the way, why is it all, he got quite angry about it. Why is it all YouTubers say like and subscribe at the beginning when I don't even know I'm gonna like it? It's just a thing, I don't know, I just say it because that's what people tell me to do. It's a reminder, isn't it? So do like and subscribe, please, if you like this, and you probably like it already if you like it. So I think you should. I don't know. You might have guessed I'm very tired. Christmas has kicked the hell out of me, it really has. I really struggled with motivation. I'm not very good at being in. I have to kind of be out and walking around and doing things, and most of it, a lot of us are probably the same. If you're a magician, you're used to just kind of doing things all the time, and my kids are at an age now where they don't really need me very much, but I need to be there. So I kind of felt a little bit trapped. So I kind of lost all my motivation, which is what we're talking about today. Really hard to get back into doing magic. I have it back, so I will discuss that. I have talked about this stuff before, but a lot of people do ask me about it because of my other life as a kind of leadership trainer and arguably motivational person. Not for many, maybe, but I'll talk about that. Right, ask me some questions. Mr. C, how are you doing? Magic Man P, how are you? Happy New Year, indeed, to you. Yeah, thanks. So I'm not gonna go into it, but I just thought it's a good one to share. So when I say I lost my motivation, it's a really weird thing, isn't it, motivation? Because most of the time I can't wait to get a deck of cards in my hands. You know, I can't wait to just sit down and start shuffling, card shuffling, as someone said to me the other day. They said, you're just a card shuffler. And yeah, I love it. So it's really, it's quite a strange feeling when all of a sudden you just kind of go, I don't want to do it. There's nothing in me that wants to do it. And I know a lot of people are gonna say, well, I don't get that. Well, I'm quite old and I've been doing this for a long time. And it usually comes along when there's other things in my life, whether they might be quite stressful or just taking my time, that it just kind of takes me away from it. And I think part of it is I kind of forget how much I enjoy it if I haven't picked up the cards for a bit. But part of it is, to be honest, I do pick up the cards and I still don't enjoy it. So my way of dealing with it is, well, the first one is to create a process. So I make myself sit down. I say, right, at this time, and this is important, at this time, I'm gonna sit down for 10 minutes, not an hour, not two hours, not five hours, not like a big, huge practice. I'm gonna sit down for 10 minutes and I'm gonna just get the cards out. And if the worst comes to the worst, I'm gonna hate every minute of it. And that's fine. I've still done 10 minutes. I've still kept my hands moving. It seemed as a kind of practical thing. And I go as far as setting reminders, putting it in the diary. I think I've talked about this before. We're not very good at putting things in diaries that aren't work things or appointments and stuff. Human beings aren't very good at this. And actually the things that are the most important to us are the things we love to do. That's kind of why we work, isn't it? That's why we, you know, to spend time with people we love and all that kind of thing. And if we're not careful, that stuff can go, especially when we have kids and things like that. So kids and things like that. I don't know what things like kids. I don't know. Dogs, they're not like kids, though, are they? But you know what I mean? Things that take your time out. And I think it's, yeah. So I think making that process and putting those things in the diary. So at three o'clock, I'm going to sit down with the cards at 10 minutes. It's really weird. I put things like at this time, I'm going to call my friend to check in because if I don't, it will just go. And if you look into kind of personal development stuff, they call it quadrant two stuff, the non-urgent important stuff, the stuff that doesn't feel like you have to do it, but it is actually really important. You've decided it's important to you and you put that in the diary. So I think that's a really important thing. 10 minutes a day, whatever's realistic, don't go over the top. What you will find is that slowly by picking the cards up every day or the coins or whatever it is you're doing or a magic book, and it slowly starts coming back and that's what happened here. So that's my first thing. Create a process. Even if you're not a process person, do it. And don't sit back on your laurels if you're the sort of person that never loses motivation. It will happen one day. It may happen one day when other things come into your life. So sort of be prepared for that. And also don't see it as a sign of giving up. I know a lot of people that lose motivation and they never go back to it because they think, oh, well, it just means I don't like it anymore. It's not really like that. It kind of comes in waves. The second thing is, and this has been huge for me this year, is mentorship. It's, I, for the first time in a long time, I've got some coaching of Steve Reynolds because I wanted to work on some shuffling stuff. I like his work. I wanted something that was accountable. I wanted to pay for it. So I didn't feel like it was a favor. You know, there's loads of people that sort of mentor me constantly that are a part of my life. And that's great. But just something that was like the accountability. I did it with piano as well. I kind of had piano lessons. Yes, I can teach myself, but I wanted someone to go, right, by this time, I want you to do this. That was huge for me because what happened is over Christmas, I was meant to have a session before Christmas. I didn't have it because I hadn't had any practice. I was sorting out Christmas for my kids as a kind of single parent. A lot of work there and I just hadn't practiced. There's no point in seeing you if you haven't practiced. And then it got to the, so we put it to after Christmas, last Monday. And then I kind of went, well, I still don't want to. I still don't want to practice, but I've got this thing. I've got to have something. So I hadn't done much, but I'd done enough to, I'd rewatched the Zoom session. I'd kind of scribbled the cards so I could talk about it and reference it. And actually what happened is that session got me back into things. So I think there's a really powerful thing in mentorship. And yes, great if you can afford to see someone and I can't usually, but this I think was an important thing. Cause I have a, you know, I think if you're teaching magic, it's ethically important to get some teaching yourself. I think that's a really important thing. It's with coaching and counseling. If you're doing any of that stuff, the whole point is that you get your own sort of supervision and you sort of practice what you preach. So because I've got the course, I kind of think, well, I've got to, you know, keep my chops up as well. And it's a really powerful thing. If you can't afford it, yes, there's things like my card magic course where you still get that accountability. You can come to the weekly sessions and feel like you've kind of want to bring stuff to there. And there are people like lovely CJ, somebody, and a lot of people actually that come and they work on stuff, bring it and show it a work in progress. And it kind of gives that accountability. So is that, if there's not that, use the things that you've got, use books, you know, open a book and go, I'm going to learn that for next week and make it almost as if you've got a mentor, become your own mentor or tell a friend or go to your magic club and say, you know, can I show this next week? And again, that accountability, really, really important to keep that motivation up and kind of get your mojo back. Is there anything else? No, I think, oh, one of the things that really helps me and is reading outside of magic. I know so many people say this and I used to hear people say this and kind of go, no, but reading about kind of motivation and how to get motivation back genuinely, not just with magic. And part of that for me is exercise. I cannot tell you, I didn't run or cycle for like three weeks and I don't mean you'd have to go for half an hour workout, just something that moves your body. And juggling does this for me as well, which I also lost motivation for and I made sure I got up and doing some juggling because it's a physical thing. What tends to happen is it changes your mindset. So by going for a walk or run or something, when I get home from that, my mind is in a very different place to where it was. And I find that when I've been in a lot, when I'm not using my body in any way, when I'm kind of feeling a bit stagnated and bored, that that has a knock on effect to the motivation with everything, even cooking a meal. I just can't be bothered. And I just, it all goes. I can go for a walk or a run, a little run, you know, just around the block a couple of times. And when I come back, I'm in a very different space. So I suggest doing stuff like that, having your close up, having your cards out, go for a walk around and say, when I get back, I'm gonna do my 10 minutes. And you might find that that gives you the little kick that you need to get back into it. And on that, just as I think about it, I think physical cues as well. If you're trying to create habits of practice, this cue, habit, reward. Is it reward at the end? Or, I can't remember what it is. Charles DeHigg has a book called The Power of Habit. Don't know why I'm looking at that. But the cue bit's important. So before you do whatever it is, have something that cues you to do it. So with me, going for a run is getting my stuff ready the night before and having it out. So that's the first thing I see when I wake up and I just start putting it on. It's almost like getting ready is the cue. It's not the actual run. If I've done that, I've achieved something. And then the next bit is just getting out the door. I don't think about the long term. And I think, again, getting stuff ready, getting your close-up out, get the visual cues. It's kind of the opposite of, you know, if you want to lose weight or you want to eat more healthily, you don't have chocolate out visibly or all that stuff. You put it away because you don't get that visual cue. Well, it's the same thing, but it's kind of flipped around. You get a visual cue, sit down. So there's no effort doing it. It's like if I go cycling, I get the bike ready the night before. So there's no barriers to it. So sort of eradicate those barriers to practice and pick up your magic books. So you're going to read two pages and you know that it's all that sort of stuff that we can do. So I just thought I'd share that with you. That's all the things that have worked for me. There's plenty more, but let me know what you think. I really recommend books like Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. It's a kind of classic and some people think it's a bit worthy and cheesy, but I think it's got some really good stuff about productivity in there. It's got some stuff about the urgent important. So I really recommend that as a kind of, and The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg as well, D-U-H-I-G-G. He's got some great stuff. And Dan Pink has got some good stuff on motivation. A book called When, about time management. Yes, so there you go. Bit of a ramble about that. And we'll go on to some comments in a minute. Let me just go here. Hi, Gary, how are you doing? Happy New Year from David M. I'm actually great at being in rather than out, sitting on my couch, watching magic videos when I'm at my best. Of course, it's after being in my office all day. I think that's the thing. I think that's a really good point. It depends on the, I'm gonna put it right over my face. It depends on what you've been doing that day. So I'm great at being in when I've been out working all day. Working, sitting here messing around, playing with videos and cards. But you know what I mean? Or creating, because I feel like I've earned that rest. And the problem in the holidays for me is if I don't feel like I've earned it, if I haven't done anything, I don't feel good about being in. And I think you're right. Love being in, love doing all that stuff. It's almost like I said about coming in. When you've been out, it kind of gives you that different thing. And I absolutely agree. Mr. C, motivation is like money. You don't always need it until you don't have it. Yes, it's not, my money thing is, money doesn't make you happy, but a lack of it makes you miserable. Yes, I agree. It's when it's gone, it's a problem, isn't it? It's like a natural state of motivation for most of us is quite good, I suppose, until it becomes something you don't really want to do. It's that thing of, you know, I usually want to do this, so it doesn't really take me much motivation to get the cards out. It's when I need to do it to keep my hands moving and I don't want to, that's where we have to put those processes in. So thanks, it's a great one. Let's have a look. David. Oh, Magic Man Pete, happy new year. Best of all in the world. That's nice, thanks. Mate. That's very nice of you. I had to put, that's David's one here. I email myself whenever I come up with a new idea for a card effect. That effect. But then just have a bunch of random emails. I need to be more organized in what card effects I will focus on and refine. This is a really good point. And I've tried this for years. I'm not very organized. I've got all these ways of doing it that help me. I use Evernote and I have a list of effects in Evernote. But even then, if you start having too many disparate things, different things you're working on, because there's no visual cues, I always think digitally, it can be a problem. Unless you're in the habit of looking at your notes digitally every day, they can very easy disappear into different files because it's not like a notebook. I really recommend a notebook because it's something you can carry around and it's in one place. And there's something that happens in the physical thing of writing stuff down with a pen, I think, that in one place, even though it can be really messy, mine's a complete mess. But I think notebooks may be a good idea for some of you. And I know I do that as well, but like you said, I just end up with loads of stuff. I'm trying, I want to get, I might get a bit of software, there's a bit of software called Asana, A-S-A-N-A, which is a kind of, which helps with things like that, it gets it all in one place. So yeah, I'm constantly battling with it, I'm really struggling. Okay, Noshigid, how you doing? Let's, this is a different question, let's have a look at this. Why am I the most paranoid person when it comes to using gimmicks? I'd rather spend 30 hours on a slide, I don't know how I can really relate to this, than utilizing a well-constructed gimmick. No ego, just preference. Why am I this way? Spencer, that is a really interesting thing. I find with gimmicks, I go through a process. I get, I don't like adding this thing, you know, this whole, this thing, and I, it never feels comfortable for me for a long time until it does, and I think that's the thing. I think sometimes with gimmicks, we can forget that they can take just as much time to practice with, and I'm not saying you have, it's more of a subconscious thing. It's not like we're saying explicitly, I don't need to practice because it's a gimmick, but I think there is something about, I kind of forget sometimes, it's like an app. I was speaking to this, about this with John Graham the other day on the interview, which I'm very proud of, just because it was the second one, because we nosed up, I nosed up the first one. But he was, we were talking about things like apps, like Wikitest, you know, I got Wikitest wrong in gigs a lot, until I'd learned it. I felt I had to learn that thing like a slide. It was the same thing. There was the same kind of process, but it was like a piece of mentalism. I had to learn what was going to say when, and when I said that, that meant that could go wrong. And I think it's like that with gimmicks. Some gimmicks feel like they're self-working. Some don't, like coin shells and things like that, but I think that even with a shell, I've had to spend a lot longer than I thought I had on it. So I would say, understand that kind of paranoia, but work with it. Go, well, I'm paranoid, so I've got to really learn this thing. So if there's a gimmick you want to get, don't expect to take it out. Do the 30 hours with the gimmick, you know, and I'm saying, I'm putting myself in this camp. I'm exactly the same. I kind of go, you know, it takes a long time. I remember learning Ring Flight, which I do without even thinking about it now, and Nick Einhorn's Nest of Wallets, all that sort of stuff. It took me quite a long time until it became that sort of unconscious competence thing of being able to do it. It never felt right. And actually, I would argue that I've found some gimmick stuff more difficult than slides, because with slides, I feel like I'm in control. I haven't got that paranoia of, you look at a ring flight, you put the ring there, and it's out of your hands, and somebody's very expensive ring is kind of flying through the air at however mile an hour into a certain place, and there's a fear with that, and it takes a long time to start trusting that gimmick, because, well, there's a certain trust with gimmicks, I think, that is important. So everything else is, I totally know what you think. What you think? I don't know what you think. I'm not actually a mind reader. I totally know what you mean. He says, the only gimmicks I use currently are Monkey, Wikitest, and sometimes Double Cross Invisible, but yeah, I feel the same. Ended up in a draw. So what I would do to stop being, I get this with, I get really overwhelmed with stuff I've got to review, so I end up not touching it. Have a look at all those things you've got in your draw, pick one, and go, I really actually really wanna learn that. I'm trying to remember how you felt when you first saw it, maybe you watched the trailer again, and think, no, actually, I could imagine doing that. Don't work on any of the other stuff. Work on that, and use it as a slide. Rehearse it, even if it's super easy, just get those things. It's like the Cuban bottle that I did, not the one we're talking about in a minute, but with the Cuban bottle that I did in my show, it's an easy trick, right? Henry Harris' Cuban bottle, it's easy. There's nothing really difficult to learn, but I still needed to drill it, and it bored me so much. I really struggle with learning not difficult things, and just drilling it in so I know where my hands are going, but there was a learning process that needs to be done there, and get some music on, just go through the motions, and just start feeling what that gimmick feels like in your hands, so you just don't have to think about it, but I'm with you, I do know. Our New Year's resolution should be to review the Jamie Schoolcraft coins. School, easy for me to say. Jamie Schoolcraft coin. Yes, I keep meaning to do it, justifying the massive purchase that I made, and the 200 odd quid I had to pay to get them into the country, which was a nice bonus. No worries, Spencer. I'll review them now, they're amazing. Jamie Schoolcraft coins are just, I just like looking at them. I want more, I haven't used them. I haven't used them hardly at all, but I like having them. I pick them up and play with them, but they're beautiful. I've learnt a couple of routines with this shell, actually. I'm scared of bringing them out of the house, so I just leave them on the shelf, pick them up a bit, perform for no one, and put them back, like most of us, really. There's my review, they're brilliant, but I will, I can't show them, I can't show the workings of them, but I can show you them. Beautiful cuppers, how do you say that? I've read it so many times, but haven't said it. Silver dollar set, with a shell and flipper, but still hate the idea of bringing in gimmicks. Yeah, I know, I'm the same. I got a Schoolcraft flipper and I love it, but I still haven't learnt it very well. It feels awkward to me. So Gid says, do you think there's a percentage of gimmicks to slice, or does it not matter? No, I think it's very personal. I think, for me, I'm a sleight of hand person. I'm someone that loves learning sleight of hand, and I love magic because of the learning part of it, really. I love performing it, but I love the process of learning. So for me, it's all about sleights, and gimmicks do a job that maybe I can't achieve with a sleight. But it doesn't matter, it's totally personal, and I don't think there's any rules of it. Too many gimmicks, to me, gets problematic, because my brain doesn't work in that way with pocket management and stuff, because I've got too much going on. And when I fell in love with magic, I fell in love with sleight of hand. That's what, you know, a coin vanish was the most beautiful thing, like juggling. It's something visual that I found visually stunning, and that's what brought me into it, and then the learning of it, I thought was a lovely thing. Great, okay, let's do some comments on some stuff I did for Christmas. But first of all, I did this little video when I was out for a walk, feeling sorry for myself. Thank you and Merry Christmas, it was called, on the channel. Your comments, it's quite rare to have such a lovely community on YouTube. You usually get a bit of, but look, I'm not gonna read them out, because they're just lovely things about the channel, and it's a bit self-indulgent. But I'd like you to look at them, and just, you know, our lovely David, MagicWolf.com, it's lovely, isn't it? But everybody, just some lovely things. And it's rare for not to get any kind of kickback, and I'm not, I just think it's a lovely community, and you should be very proud of yourselves for being that, because, you know, I, when I got out of Magic, I was very sniffy about the community. I didn't know anything about it. I didn't know about the community. I just got fed up with people trying to sell me tricks all the time, which is ironic, because I review them now. But that was years ago, when I thought it was a bit of a, in a bit of an iffy state. But I just realised how lovely the community is, so thank you. It meant an awful lot, because I was feeling a bit sorry for myself on that day. And it really, really poked me up. A few, the John Graham interview that I did the other day, just, if you haven't watched it, what happened is, me and John, I was really nervous about it, because I hadn't done an interview in ages, and I get terrible sort of imposter syndrome. I interviewed John about his book, Stage by Stage, which is stunning. I haven't done the full review yet. I will do it, but it's just a beautiful book. I think it's wonderful. And I interviewed him about that for an hour and 20 minutes, or whatever it was. Lovely conversation. Got home and it hadn't recorded. Still don't know what happened. I have to say to him that I'm really sorry, because the time difference, we have to do like nine o'clock at night and leave in New York. And I said, let's wait a few weeks. Just, let's not do it now, because it won't feel fresh. And we had another conversation, which was a better one, because I was a bit more relaxed. And even though I was nervous, because it didn't work, I was nervous, super nervous about pressing that button at the end, and it saying it wasn't recording or whatever. But it was, it was lovely. So, and there's some comments on there. Thank you again so much, John, for being so patient. And he said, look, if this one doesn't record, we'll come back and do a third. So, just lovely. So I'm not going to read them all out, because there's just lots of lovely people saying lovely things. But I've seen John consistence from T-Bone Wolf, just seen John consistently blow audiences away. And having read his book, he really gives everything in capitals away. He really does. It's his act, and also how he got to the decisions he made in his act. You know, he gives everything away. Nothing is held back. There's some great in John's warmth and human shine. They really do. I think John is just such a lovely person. And he wrote, so great to talk to you again, Steve. I feel like I'm talking to a friend I've known for years. That's a lovely compliment, isn't it? I love your YouTube channel, and thanks for the opportunity to be part of it. Just, yeah, thanks, man. Mike says, until I saw a write-up about this book, I was unaware of John, as I was, to be honest. You know, I'm not, I'm not, I've not got my finger on the, you know, when I'm not doing this, it's not like I'm spending hours looking at the forums. I just haven't got time. So I'm not, you know, things come to me and fall onto my lap, and I look at them, and I do as much research as possible. But I miss things, you know? I miss things a lot. So, yeah, unaware of John. Since its release, I've watched a boatload of videos. He definitely knows how to routine, present, and stage a show. He really does. I'll be getting this book. By the way, Steve, I love your comments about fails on stage. Yeah, we've talked about that. If you ever do a book, consider calling it Nobody Died. I think it was great. Yeah, I will. Thank you. I know it sounds negative, but I think that's, I love hearing people's stories about failing on stage. I've done it so many times. Oh, so many times. One of your very best videos, Steve, from Stuart Reid. That's lovely. Felt like a genuine conversation. Great. If you want me to interview anybody, let me know. Or if you know them, let them know, and they can ask me. I don't interview them, because it's nice to talk to people. I didn't know this is Mathieu. I didn't know John before. I love, and I love his way of thinking. Buy the book. Great. I've got the book sitting in the cart waiting for some more stuff. This is from Maxi. To be added to justify the shipping. Yeah, I do that. I love that. I love having that excuse, which is nonsense, really, isn't it? It's not, but I love having that thing of buying something from a magic shop, and then they know what they're doing, don't they? Saying, oh, if I spend another 20 quid, I'll get free shipping, and buying something I don't really need just to get the free shipping. But yeah, lovely. So thanks for that. Cuban bottle, which was an interesting one. I did a live review just before, when did I do that? December 13th. Blimey, that was ages ago. I haven't done much recently, have I? For the reasons I stated earlier. But interesting, so I found it satisfying anyway. This is the Vanishing Inc. Cuban Bottle, not the Henry Harris. This is the David Stryker and Taylor Hughes Cuban Bottle Project, where you make your own Cuban bottle. Frankie says, this is one of the most satisfying DIY projects. It was really satisfying. I've ever had. It might be nice if the Cuban Bottle Project had a Facebook group or forum where you can ask questions, but other than that, yeah, they are quite good, aren't they? But I understand why people don't do it as well, because they are quite hard to maintain. And I think that, yeah, those things are great, like Facebook groups, but you've got to make sure you can be present on them, I think. And Jeff says, Jeff Gray, love my Cuban Bottle Project. I made three Cuban bottles, one to match, one to sell, and one to switch it out. The sold one, to give away. It kills, it absolutely does kill. Mexie says, I've sent various promo emails and stuff for this, but thought it was just how to put a Cuban bottle. And I've already made several of those, I've just binned them. I still can't see myself getting this, but it's nice to see it's something more than I thought. Yeah, and I think that's, I mean, that's the main thing. I think the point of spending that money is for the instruction, and the fact you get like free, you give you everything with it. And you've got those great routines as well. So of course the routines are very important, but I think it's, if you're already putting a Cuban bottle, that's kind of what you're paying for as well. Virgil, I got this a month or two ago, but I've been too busy with work to delve into it. Welcome to my world, where I work, but everything else. And I've watched around half the instruction material. Really looking forward to digging into it over the holiday break. Perfect project for a quiet day when it's cold outside. Now, how have we got to it? And if you didn't, make sure you pick it up, make sure you do it. Listen to the stuff I said earlier. Let's have a look what Matty says. I've no clue how that Henry Harrius Cuban bottle works. And I want to keep it that way. It's nice that there's still some magic out there that leaves me scratching my head. That's a really good point. And a lot of people, I don't know if you get this as a magician, but a lot of lay people say to me, do you know everything? Oh, you see every magic trick and you know everything. And I don't, and I try not to. I like that feeling. And I suppose that was the kind of thing behind Penn & Teller's Fallers that they talked about. They still love that feeling of being fooled. And I do, and I forget how much I like it until it happens. And then I go, that was lovely, wasn't it? And sometimes I don't think it needs much presentation. I think it's nice just to see the trick and see it speak for itself. You know, don't get me wrong. I love presentational ideas, but I think sometimes just that feeling of being fooled, we forget that that can be enough if it's presented nicely, not necessarily cleverly or anything like that. And I agree with that. I think it's great. And the Cuban bottle is a lovely, the way it works, there's been a lot of great thinking in it. And I think this is the harriest one this time that he's talking about. Be scared to death to do effects on the trailer that's not the actual effect where he threw the cube in the bottle. It seems like the community gets mad at that kind of thing. I don't know, actually. I thought that, yeah, I agree with what, I mean, some effects scare the hell out of me, and I suppose it's, yeah, it was a bit weird they put that on, and it wasn't on there, but I suppose that's not the main effect. Oh, so he's mentioned another Steve Faulkner or something like that. Great to see you looking healthy. Great view. Thank you. Let me have a look. I'm going to divide magic into video demonstrations. Yeah, Arderis. It's funny, actually. I can't read properly because my glasses are in the opticians. So I just had to buy some, one of the cheap ones, and they're kind of like five sides. They're like children's ones, but they're the wrong ones. I bought the wrong ones. So I'm done. I mentally divide magic on video into demonstrations and performances. Demos are just that, Absolutely. Suitable for an insider's channel like Real Magic with you. Yes, absolutely. Performance videos are like recording a song. If you need to record a guitar one string at a time for the perfect final project, that is what you do. Reasonably experienced magicians can tell when a performance video plays fair and when it relies on post-production trickery. Yes, I agree. And I think that there's been a lot this year, hasn't there? There's been things like, was it Summit? Was that the other brother's video? Things that people weren't happy with and they kind of, yeah, put it together to make it just right, but it's not that fair. And I think it's a valid point. Chris said it's no from me. I just don't get the whole Q-Magic thing. Chris, we're silly. Silly. We'll have a chat. Pop on to the life later. Tell you what it is about Q-Magic. Only writing this to get the comments rolling. And I said it went quite well because I hadn't read the rest of it. Oh, I'd read it and forgotten it. And never really been the first commenter. Brilliant. Get Car Magic course, it's awesome. Thanks, man. Yeah, someone said, I have mentioned, oh, did I mention it? Maybe I mentioned it when I did this. It did, didn't I? That's why you're saying it. About someone the other day on Facebook or something. And one of them was saying, basically, objectively, that Q-Magic is terrible. It wasn't like, I think Q-Magic's terrible. I don't like Q-Magic. It's like, what is it about Q-Magic? It's clearly terrible. And again, you kind of go, well, it can't be because if you do it in a show and people come up and say, I love the bit with the Rubik's Cube, it can't objectively be terrible, can it? You might not like it, but it does make me laugh when people do that. Oh, I know you haven't done that. You said it to do the thing. But yeah, I do find that funny. It's basically an object that you can do loads of effects with and it uses color. It's just great. It's a great thing. People would damn like it. I'm not gonna talk about it. I'm gonna like that because I haven't even done that yet. That's lazy, isn't it? Sorry if some of you have commented and I haven't kind of replied or liked and I'm gonna like them all. It's nothing more exciting than seeing a man look at a screen and clicking a mouse, is there? So, there you go. Hey, I'm gonna see if there's any more comments on here. Best part of any trick is not knowing how it's done. Absolutely. Magic Man Pete, gotta say, mate, loved your contact juggling video on Instagram. We love Bowie's Labyrinth in our house. Well, anything Bowie does, come on. And also I'm impressed, and this is good. I'm glad I'm impressed. It's, yeah, contact juggling is something that is very good for me up here. It's, and I've practiced it for years. I'm still not very good at it, but it's, yeah, all that stuff really helps with magic and everything. 2022, I plan to get into coin slides. Past 14 months since starting magic, been obsessed with 100% card slides. This year, I want to up my coin game. Getting into coin magic, look at Eric Jones's stuff is great. The metal series is great. I love them. So I think that, obviously, loads of books about all that. Everybody goes on about that. But I think learn Danny Goldsmith's, maybe a little bit advanced, but he teaches, Danny actually teaches a free coin slide. If you go to Google Danny Goldsmith coin magic, he teaches the free coins like vanish if you put your details in, and it's really good. But I, one decent vanish, get a retention vanish under your belt. You can do a whole routine with a retention vanish. I just had a retention vanish for years, and it's just a little sort of aside with a coin with a good retention vanish, coin through the hand, coin through the trouser leg, all that Bobo stuff, just learn all that stuff. And you three or four slides, and you're away. It's not like, we're saying, you could say the same with cards actually, but there's lots of coin slides that I think don't look that great. And I think the main ones, just a decent vanish, decent production, nothing that difficult. Learn your subtleties, your Ramsey subtlety, your cap subtlety, all that stuff to make it convincing. And you can, it's beautiful. And then one decent coins of class, I recommend the Al Schneider one, which is on cardmagiccourse.com, by the way, in the lecture video. And yeah. Right, that's your David M that you've committed now. I want you to pop back in on a future one and let us know how you got on. People who come up after showing compliment Rubik's Cube magic are objectively bad people. Yeah. Idiots. Yeah, good point. I might have an audience of objectively bad people. That's maybe what. Yeah. Danny Goldsmith has amazing non-gimmick coin. And his, yeah, his retention is a fallout. Oh, his retention stuff is incredible, isn't it? And, yeah. I was gonna pick up and do it. I couldn't do it. That would have been a bad example. I was looking for a coin to show you, but I'm not very good at it. 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