Your attitude towards Mr. Browning's advice is great, I love it. However your not understanding what it is that he is saying.
He doesn't need to watch your other stuff, his criticisms we're on things that I highly doubt you would go out of your way to do poorly in this video, versus the much more believable idea that this is just how you perform on average. I am not entirely one to talk, because I definitely have some crappy videos that I post just to get certain things across. I get that. I in fact need to get better about the general quality of my videos. However your DL, your general card handling, and your patter all are things that I'm sure are found throughout your magic. They all need some work. If you want specifics or resources (on all of the above besides patter) just shoot me a PM.
Next thing. As Mr. Browning pointed out, this is not original. I'm willing to bet money that your other effects are not as well. This is not a reflection of you personally, simply that about 95% of the time, someone at your level of experience (and really mine) do not have the knowledge base nor the resource base to have even the sl(e)ightest (HaHa) idea of whether or not something is original. So please, look at you're saying. Even offhandly, you refer to your other videos as your "original tricks." What I would recommend doing, and what I myself do, is this: If you come up with something you havent seen anywhere else, call it that. Do not call it original, simply say that you have yet to hear of it. Again, I'm sure that 95% of the time this will prove to be the truth. That your effect or method is not original, you just haven't seen it yet. On that note, by no means should that be a disappointment. It means two things: One, your clever enough to come up with something that a magician with far more experience than you thought was worth publishing. Two, lucky you, you now have a resource to use to improve whatever it is you figured out. Chances are, they have put more work into it than you have, and they have better advice on how to do it.
About the egoness and closey magician crap. First, please don't refer to good advice as crap. It makes you look immature, and it also means that you are not thinking about things in the right way. I understand that it is just a phrase of speech, but every word that you utter or thought that you type alters your perception of things. Even if you used that word without thought, crap has a lot of negative connotations, and all your doing by saying it is associating his advice with that word in your head. Not a good habit, break it. As to the advice itself, you don't seem to be getting it. Instead, your trying to protect your ego by referring to your improvements as perfection. As well as defending yourself by bragging about how people want your contact info. That is great that your magic impressed people that much. It in no way shape or form changes what Mr. Browning said to you. All it does is brag, and again, brag sounds bad. Modesty will get you far.
Again, I love how your looking at all of this. Your open to criticism, which puts you miles ahead of most magicians in your position. Neither I or Mr. Browning are trying to belittle you or upset you, and if you really aren't taking any of this that way then that is great. However, you are doing something that I had to battle with myself for a while, and I'm sure I still do this (maybe I've gotten better about it at least). Your saying you know and you understand, and in the same sentence contradicting yourself. I've stopped, or at least slowed down, from doing stuff like that, but really I have no advice on how to get over it. It is again an ego thing, and you just have to take a look at yourself until you figure it out. I really hope you can grow in this community, because we love people who want to try, which it really seems like you do.
Tyler
P.S. Take a look at those red lines that appear on your screen as you type, they are there for a reason. Grammar is one thing, but spelling is just too easy to correct nowadays.
