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The first step in bringing a magic trick to life is often overlooked and rarely discussed—faking it. That’s right, faking it.

Magicians are quite lucky because they can quite easily make-believe most tricks. It’s tricky for other art forms to do the same. As a comedian or musician, you might build your set in one of two ways:

1. Piece by Piece

2. Layer by Layer

Piece by piece involves building the first section of the set. Then going back to make changes and try it again with a new piece at the end. Then you repeat.

Layer by layer involved going out with a flimsy full set and then ironing out the kinks over and over again. You can think of this as painting a beautiful picture layer by layer.