Fooling Houdini
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What’s it about?
After a humiliating onstage failure, a physics grad student plunges into the secretive, cutthroat world of competitive magic, where he discovers that the art of deception is really the science of the mind.
You’ll learn
- Magic exploits predictable flaws in perception
- Attention management is the magician's real skill
- Mastery requires embracing public failure
- The best tricks are performances, not just moves