You start your magical journey by learning methods.

How to bring a card to the top.

How to turn two cards as one.

You practice your methods, and combine them to form a trick.

You’re telling yourself a story.

“Do this and this to make it look like that happened.”

To you the trick is a story about technique. You know the characters well.

But that’s not the story you’re telling.

Or rather, that’s not the story you’re teaching the spectator to tell. To themselves. To others.

In your story, magic is real, and methods don’t exist.