Love of being a magician, and how performance has helped improve communication skills and sociability.

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Being a Magician and Communication Skills
Illusionism and magic have a long data. According to historians, the first magicians came from Persia, and their skills passed to the Greeks in the Hellenistic period. The first magic tricks were based on skillful deceptions and sleight of hands as a form of street entertainment. Now, magic has evolved to a point where it can be regarded as an interpretive art and the magicians as artists. That way, magic as a performative art has changed to a point where magicians are personalities as famous as actors or musicians, filling venues with thousands of spectators, eager to watch their prestige.
It is this evolution of magic what have shifted the profession’s paradigm to a different direction, turning magicians from a novelty to respected performers. However, instead of being an internal artistic manifestation, like painting and sculpture can be, magic is something meant to interact with. Although the spectators do not know how the tricks are performed, they want to be amazed. A performer without enough communication skills, or unable to convey the emotion of its skills, is prone to failure.
Like any form of art, magic cannot be learned in a single day, and requires hour after hour of practice and failure. That is why, illusionism can teach amateur magicians confidence and dedication to accept that the road to success is hard, and people can be mean, especially to a…