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.