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"A Day of Your Life" is a really good routine. The good part about the one-ahead is that you are not doing any writing (avoiding the problem the Jerx is trying to fix and the issue Osterland is disguising using the card selection). The final thing written (the clock face) is the first thing...

Actually, based on where you are, this isn't something you should have realized. You are doing the natural progression. By performing more, you realized you had a question that needed to be answered. When you have a question, that means you are ready to learn. Continue to ask questions and...

1. Your focus (in designing, scripting and performing) should be on your audience. @Steerpike, who used to be very active on these forums, would say that the question a a magic performance has to answer for the audience is, "why should I care?" So try to answer that question with each...

Actually, part of it could be audience management. Think about what would make him want to count the cards. Was there something in the initial count of the cards that made him suspicious? As @MohanaMisra said, even executing a slight well may raise suspicion if your body language communicates...

"You've got to be kidding. Are you serious that is your choice? This has to be some sort of... trick? Anyway, I said pick A card, there are two jokers in the deck, pick another card."

I would avoid a bottle production or something flashy in the beginning. In a restaurant situation, people will not be paying attention at the very beginning. You need to draw them in, get them interested, build the impossibility and then demonstrate the magic. I agree with Christopher that...

I'm guessing Card to Mouth is out of the question?

As the spectator is thinking of the card, have someone stand behind you and with a sign that says "Think of the King of Clubs" or just as you start to guess the card, have someone stand behind you with a sign that says "Make this a really cool video, agree with everything he says."

What he seems to be doing is testing the strength of your method... poking to see if there are holes. He probably thinks that it is giving you good practice. It actually is, in that you make your instructions more clear and thereby have better control over the audience. When you give...

Very true. You can just as easily give someone a close-up effect or a stage illusion and have them perform it poorly in less than an hour. To do either type of magic well, requires a dedication to taking tricks and turning them into well thought-out, designed, scripted, practiced and rehearsed...

Worst recommendation ever. To deal with hecklers, you want to get the audience on your side. Doing this makes you look like a jerk. Not the best way to make friends in the audience. But then again, it probably is easier than trying to make your magic more entertaining and less of a challenge...

Practice. Talk to people, listen to people and get to know them. At the same time, without being obvious, observe how they dress, how they groom themselves and their mannerisms. You could probably do a more accurate reading of a person by looking at their shoes than their palm. Watch people...

Ideas: 1. Ask your uncle privately to not try to ruin your performances. Explain to him that it isn't a game where he is supposed to try to figure things out. Explain that by doing what he is doing, it makes you not want to perform. 2. If that doesn't work, don't perform for your uncle or...

If it involves a playing card and is on YouTube, it is either luck (enhanced by statistical probability), editing or sleight of hand. Also, if it involves a playing card, it most likely isn't mentalism.

I knew that. I just did. :cool: I think any difference is a matter of emphasis... I'm "methods" with "subtleties" and you are "real skills" with "add-ons." You cannot instill belief if you don't believe.

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I think that "motivate" is a better word for what I'm trying to convey than "justify." That is, there is a logical reason in the context of the presentation for taking the steps you take. If you provide a motivation for the steps that facilitate a method, then the method remains invisible. I...

Best starting point. If you put in the effort and thought, you can make most of the effects in both of these books into a complete show. Good book. More of a mental magic feel but some really good stuff that could be incorporated in a true mentalism show. I think you need a basis in...