From the article:

> If a trick fooled me, I made it my job to discover how.

Tangential but that's one of the reasons I actually migrated away from sleight of hand towards juggling. IMHO it's far less stressful when your performance doesn't require fooling the audience.

There was a very good article about magic [1] where the magicians describe tricks that are too good to perform because people will get angry. Apparently the audience is much more receptive when they believe they can figure out how the trick was achieved.

[1] The New Yorker. “The Real Work: Modern magic and the meaning of life.” by Adam Gopnik July 28, 2008

I dabbled in magic, and what I found beatiful about it is, as an audience, you're amazed once (because magician never does same trick twice). But as a performer, you're actually amazed three times!

First time as an audience, when someone shows you a performance of a trick. The second time you're amazed, when they show you the method, and you think - how could have I been fooled by this stupid detail? And the third time you're amazed, when you actually learn it, you perform it, of course imperfectly, and it still fools the other people.