I Think The Negative Reinforcement Really Helped

I'm The Luckiest Man In The World - Performing 500 Shows A Year And Loving What I Do - Illusion Is My Day To Day Life.

Magic Has Been Something I've Been Really Good At Since I Was Really Young. The Ability Has Always Come Easy To Me, I'm Not Sure Why.

All The Lawyers And The Business Stuff Is Work, But Actually Creating Stuff Isn't Work. It's Good Effort. It's Hard Work. But, It's Not Work. It Doesn't Feel Like Work Because The Result Is Very Rewarding.

I Wrote An Op-ed Piece In The New York Times About The Amazing Effect Of Shared Wonder - How I Have An Audience Filled With People Who You'd Think Would Hate Each Other, People From Every Religious Category, All At The Same Show At The Same Time. And It's An Amazing Phenomenon To Watch This Shared Sense Of Wonder, Where These People Who Really Don't Like Each Other - For Good And Bad Reasons, Reasons That Make Sense And That Don't Make Sense - Are In The Same Room, Experiencing This Unification.

I Discovered That Magic Tricks Got Me More Attention From The Girls In My Class When I Was Nine - So A Magician Was Born!