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45. Magic and how it works

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I didn't understand magic until I started doing it. I started doing it because i had to do something to gather the attention of people around me. Initially how i started was by reading books on it. I downloaded all the books that i could download on the internet and transferred it to my iPad. I read few of them and they literally changed my perception of  Magic from merely a gimmick and lost art to something that one could apply in real life to get miraculous results. Magic is everywhere and we witness it everyday, we juts don't notice it. People getting rich and successful, boys having beautiful girls, low key politicians winning elections, places getting clean on its own, it is all magic but we don't categorize it as magic because we don't know the performer. Magic is an event, apart of which is obscured from the vision and knowledge of the spectator.  One of the key elements of Magic is Belief. Now i didn't know that. I thought Magic is all about tricks...

36. Talent is like Magic it doesn't exist !!

There are times when i feel weak but i have to get up. There are times when i feel i am a failure, but then that is a new start. The truth is that every fucking day is a new start. You dream everyday and you move little by little towards what you want to achieve and one day you do it but you have to do it everyday. Talent does not work. Talent does not exist. Talent is a magic word. People use that term to hide their hard work and pretend like they are lucky and appear as enigma. No one knew how many hours Steve Jobs worked before giving his presentation. His speeches were never magical and he never had any talents of speaking. He worked really hard on it by making cards and pointers to his speech. He would rehearse again and again till he would memorize every section of that speech. Talent is also a word created by those who want to justify other's hard work because they don't want to see it. Nothing has ever been achieved without hard work and persistence and discipline. D...