["Majitons of the Art of Manliness Podcasts"]

Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcasts.

Now, magicians usually become magicians because they experience a sense of wonder,

seen a cool trick as a kid, and they want to recreate that offer audience members on a regular basis.

But what happens when a professional magician stops feeling the magic of magic?

If that happened to my guest today, his name is Nate Standeforth,

and today on the show Nate shares how he got into magic and became a professional magician,

only to become dissolution with his career. Nate then talks about how he embarked on a search

to rediscover the magic of magic, which took him to the slums of India, where he encountered a

3,000-year-old clan of fire-eating street performers and rekindled his sense of wonder.

If you're feeling burnt out from your work or disenchanted with life, this episode is going to have

some insights for you after the show's over. Check out the show notes at a-wim.is-slash-realmagic.

And Nate joins me now via clearcast.io.

Nate Standeforth, welcome to the show. Thank you very much for having me on.

So you got to book out, here is real magic. A magician's search for wonder in the modern world.

I love this story because I'm a guy. I'm a romantic at heart. I love the idea of wonder and awe,

but also I live in the 21st century. So it's easy to be cynical and jaded and you're like,

does wonder exist. But you're also looking forward at the same time. So this is your search.

Like you're a magician. You're a guy who spends his career inducing wonder in people,

but you had this moment where you lost the wonder and you went looking forward again.

Before we get there, let's talk about how you became a magician. I think this is interesting.

How did you get into magic? Every kid goes through a magic phase. I did, but for some reason you,

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