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Everybody loves magic and mentalism. Many people want to learn mentalism tricks to astonish people with powerful tricks and illusions they will remember for the rest of their lives. This wish can be for self realization, gaining respect and just for fun.
There is no school or universities teaching how to do magic. Since magicians traditionally hide their secrets, it has been difficult for people who wants to develop their skills to become illusionist or magicians. Today, it is much easier to find information with internet. Now it is easy and possible to get online access to the videos, ebooks and tutorials on magic and mentalism.
The best way to learn mentalism is to get direct communication with a professional magician and mentalist if possible. With internet communications it is much easy to establish communication with even the most famous ones through their websites on the internet.
There are a lot of resources available online teaching the art of mentalism and magic with all the details. Is it possible to learn mentalism by reading ebook and watching videos? Yes, it is quite possible to learn the essense of the trick.
Learning a few tricks do not make you magician or mentalist. Every mentalism and magic trick must be practiced several times by the beginner magician. Otherwise the results can be very disappointing.
The person who wants to learn mentalism tricks, should prefer the easy tricks he can perform in front of his family and friends. It is vital to practice the newly learned tricks until you completely learn how to apply it.
If a trick is presented without enough rehearsal, the audience will not be late to realize the secret of the trick and will scream you all the steps how you did that. This situation is enough reason to give up doing magic. The people who experience such embarrasments never want to do magic again.
A person who are serious about becoming a mentalist, needs to focus and practice the tricks 3-4 days a week or 2-3 hours a day. Some very easy tricks do not require this much work. But developing a continous disipline of practicing and rehearsal until it is completely learned, is very important for becoming a successul in learning mentalism tricks and magic.
