Here Lies Magic | Nate Staniforth
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From the moment he drove his classmates into a screaming frenzy with a coin trick at age 9, Nate Staniforth has been hooked on creating experiences that awe. Now a professional magician, writer, YouTube creator, and author of Here is Real Magic: A Magician’s Search for Wonder in the Modern World, Nate has also co-starred in the Discovery Channel's international hit TV series Breaking Magic.
Today, he tells us about the road of self-described discipleship that brought him there — including the moment he walked offstage in the middle of a performance and nearly burned it all to the ground. We also get into the background process of writing his book, riff on notions of success and knowing when something’s good enough, how vanishing into India profoundly changed his trajectory, and we get Nate's take on finding goodness and wonder in a world that often seems to have lost them.
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| 0:00.0 | Nate Stanford is a bit of an enigma, identifying as a magician and a writer really doesn't |
| 0:13.0 | do what he's about real justice because what truly fuels him is this fierce lifelong |
| 0:19.7 | devotion to the pursuit of discovering and creating and evoking awe and amazement. |
| 0:26.0 | That kind of otherworldly state where you see and experience something that your brain |
| 0:31.4 | simply cannot explain and you immediately just drop into a place where you're kind of |
| 0:36.3 | a child again filled with joy and laughter and just straight up wonder. |
| 0:40.9 | And things were going great as he was building this career. |
| 0:43.4 | He was touring nonstop, building a career as an acclaimed magician and illusionist, but |
| 0:48.8 | the years began to take a bit of a toll and Nate eventually reached his own breaking |
| 0:53.2 | point. |
| 0:54.2 | His own moment of reckoning where the profession and the practice of magic had lost its magic |
| 0:59.9 | for him. |
| 1:00.9 | He was pretty burned out and really questioning the one thing that he had lived for since |
| 1:05.8 | he was a kid. |
| 1:07.3 | So he did something extreme, vanishing into India for five weeks in search of an indigenous |
| 1:13.9 | 3,000 year old tribe of Indian magicians that would radically change the course of his career |
| 1:20.9 | and his life. |
| 1:22.2 | He shared so much of this journey in his memoir, Here is Real Magic and we dive deep into |
| 1:27.7 | many of the magical and not so magical moments along the way in today's conversation. |
| 1:33.3 | So excited to share it with you. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:41.8 | What's your first exposure to magic? |
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