“Learn a few tricks really well rather than learning many, poorly.” I’ve been given this advice in the past, and the problem with it for me is that when you start performing, and people enjoy what they see, they ask for more. So you keep going, but then there’s an end, and you have to somehow convey that, that you’ve reached a point where you’ve performed everything you can. I agree that quality is important, but I don’t think quality and a large quantity are necessarily mutually exclusive, and so it’s important to find a line where you learn enough tricks to entertain beyond the duration of a person’s attention span, but not so many that you can’t give each trick the time that it deserves when practicing. What do you guys think?