Enough

Recently I acquired a very inter­est­ing read: John Naish’s book ‘Enough’. It’s main top­ics are about get­ting the idea of ‘hav­ing enough’.

Whilst being a ‘non-magic’ book, it is a very inspir­ing and thought pro­vok­ing read for us magi­cians, who are facing the same prob­lems of over-sat­ur­a­tion, inform­a­tion over­load and ‘I‑need-that-new-gim­mick-trick-gadet’.

Nev­er before in the his­tory of magic has the magic mar­ket been so huge. The digit­al age also makes it so easy for the mar­keters in this branche to bom­bard us with (mostly use­less) inform­a­tion on a daily, even hourly base. There­fore, the adept has to learn to fil­ter inform­a­tion and res­ist the tempta­tion to get more and more (fol­low­ing our nat­ur­al instincts).

This book helps immensely to achieve that goal: to do, enjoy and per­form magic without being a slave of the deal­ers and the magic industry. Real good magic can be per­formed without the new­est ‘hip’ things and props.

Because magic is not about props that the deal­ers want us to buy (so they get rich­er and rich­er). The magic industry evolved into a dan­ger­ous anim­al full of seduc­tions. One needs to act­ively fight against that. This book will be of help to rethink our buy­ing beha­viour in magic and reshape our aware­ness and priorities.

Using the prin­ciples and tips out­lined in this book will defin­it­ively save us pre­cious time and energy. Through that, we gain more time and energy for work­ing on our magic, which in turn makes us bet­ter magi­cians on the long run.