Moreover, kids are relatively free of assumptions and expectations about how the world works, and magic is all about turning your assumptions and expectations against you.
Kids, on the other hand, tend to focus on more than one thing at a time-their attention is more diffuse-which may make them harder to fool.
This is great for getting stuff done, but it also makes you susceptible to misdirection, because magicians are good at getting you to train the spotlight of your attention on one thing-the wrong thing-while doing something tricky in the shadows. As adults, we’re very good at focusing on one thing while ignoring subsidiary distractions. Part of it may have to do with the way children pay attention. Q. I often hear that fooling children with magic is very hard to do. Understanding how people see things and learning to anticipate their actions. 2) I usually try to find an out. Q. 1) What would you say are the most important fundamentals of magic? 2) When a trick has failed, what do you do? Morph into another trick, repeat, or just admit it didn’t work? – caleb bĪ. 1) Psychology. I don’t really know, but I think it’s high time for that to change. Why are there so very few women magicians? – Eric M. Q. Why is it that magicians are almost all men. If you are a highly skilled - but evil - magician, and wanted to use your skills for financial gain through criminal means (or at least highly unethical means), what do you think would be the most profitable routes to take? – Derek Alex Stone, author of the excellent new book Fooling Houdini, was kind enough to take questions from blog readers – and there were some tough ones! Here are his answers:
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