The sad life of the diletante

He has studied it all. He knows and can do every sleight in the calendar; he's got the books and knows the history of the craft. He is a mobile library but he just can't perform. He sucks because he gets so nervous that most of the times he just avoids performing for a live crowd. He is just too upset about public performances, and that is something he'll be bitter about forever.

I know of too many guys who are very savyy but will never be magicians. They are just too stuck with the books and the mirror. They are trapped in the mirror like Alice! Too shy to perform they are 'virgins' in a way because they never do tricks for real people.

I spent a lot of time reading books and practicing in front of a mirror but never doing tricks for real people. I was a 'theoretical master'. I had read a lot and could criticize with a raised index finger. The real growth begun when i started performing. On one hand i knew about a lot of stuff but on the other, the number of tricks and/or technique that i could perform (as in 'for human beings') was really low.

Nowadays, thanks to the fact that i'm performing every weekend, i'm catching up.

Are you a diletante? Do you speak about magic or do you perform?

GET TO WORK!