I'm pulling out of the parking lot. We all know what that means. It's time for on the drive to work.

And I took my daughter to her new job.

Okay, today I'm going to do another, I haven't really named these, but what I guess I'll dub lessons from the past.

So what I like to do sometimes is talk about something I used to do, a different job, and how the lessons of that job impacted my current life, how I do design.

Because as I always say, I'm a big holistic believer.

I believe as you learn lessons in life, that they're not segregated,

that lessons you learn in one field affect you in another.

And so today, I'm going to talk all about magic, but not the game of magic, which I talk

about all the time, but rather the art of illusion.

So when I was a kid for a while in my youth, I was a magician.

I mostly did kids' parties.

But anyway, I'm going to talk about being magician

and what I learned about being magician

and how that applies to how I make magic.

So the lessons I learned back in those days

and how those lessons shaped me as a person

and how I apply those lessons today.

That's today's topic.

And along the way, maybe you'll learn a little something about magic.

Okay, so let me first explain sort of how I became a magician in my youth.

So I had a good friend named Steve, and Stephen, I was fascinated by magicians and ended up, uh, taking classes and stuff from becoming magician.

Um, and so I, too, took classes.

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