Ebook Magical How Magic and its Star Performers Transformed the Entertainment Economy Bharat Rao 9781793813381 Books


Are you ready for some magic?
There are solo magicians today who are making over $20,000 per performance, while those in the big leagues routinely bring in over $20 million a year. How did they get there and what are the keys to their success? What skills and techniques do they possess and deploy that can be easily adapted for your own personal use? In this book, you will learn of the key attitudes and practices that propel their success, as well as the path they have paved for other magicians and performers hoping to gain an entry into this competitive yet lucrative industry.
We look at the magic industry through the lens of two of its most celebrated performers, Penn and Teller, who are not just as magicians and entertainers, but smart entrepreneurs running a global entertainment business. In parallel, we look at how the field of modern magic has evolved since its inception, what the outlook is for its future in our global, interconnected, always-on economy. We consider the successful careers of legendary magicians like Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Harry Houdini, Dai Vernon, Doug Henning, and others, and how they have shaped the growing magic industry and made it a force to be reckoned with.
Through shows like Penn and Teller Fool Us, America’s Got Talent, Britain’s Got Talent, and The World’s Best, and through social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube, contemporary magicians have an unprecedented opportunity to make themselves known to a global audience. The success secrets followed by the likes of Penn and Teller, David Copperfield, David Blaine, Criss Angel, and newer stars like Shin Lim, Dynamo, and Ryan Hayashi, both as professional magicians and business owners, can be applied by entrepreneurs, business people and self starters everywhere who want to make a mark in their careers. Through constant efforts at design, experimentation, prototyping, and field testing with peers and live audiences, these performers have been fine tuning their craft for decades. With their passion, perseverance, commitment, and unique and creative ways of identifying and solving problems, these trailblazers show the way for a better - and more magical future.
In this book, you will not only learn how these stars successfully overcame their challenges, but also how YOU can transform your approach to magic and business.
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A modern synthesis of magic that every conjurer should keep in their knowledge bag of tricks.
- Ryan Hayashi, International Stage Magician, Motivational Speaker, Samurai Entertainer, and Winner of the FU Trophy, Penn Teller Fool Us.
Entertaining, fast-paced, and full of ideas that will challenge your assumptions and beliefs about magic, and it's connections to popular culture and business.
- Laura Vanderkam, Bestselling Author of What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast and Off The Clock.
A rollicking ride into the business of magic. The connections to innovation, creativity, persistence and service excellence are engaging and insightful. Every entrepreneur should own a copy.
- Michael McGetrick, Founder and CEO, Spark 451.
Ebook Magical How Magic and its Star Performers Transformed the Entertainment Economy Bharat Rao 9781793813381 Books
"Rao sets up the reader with an excellent walk through the origins, evolution, and arrival of the contemporary magic scene but ends up revealing a wealth of insights for performers, entrepreneurs, and business professional alike. Magical is a must-read for aspiring professional and amateur magicians as well as those who are seeking to delight consumers and differentiate products in just about any industry. You will never look at magic quite the same way again!"
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Magical How Magic and its Star Performers Transformed the Entertainment Economy Bharat Rao 9781793813381 Books Reviews
- I will just put it simple - ‘magical’ is just magnificent. The book is extensively detailed about magic and magicians of different ages, history of magic, the past, tough times and the bright future in waiting.
The art of magic and how it is blended effectively with modern technology to make it a ‘global business’ has been narrated with style and powerful language. The pages run like a stream especially when the author delves deeply on the role played by modern technology in transforming magic from conventional sense to an art form which defies easy definition. ‘Quiet flows the Don’. - A scientific approach to the art of illusion. Rao diligently takes us through the history of magic and reveals to us why magic is still very relevant in our economy. Rao also leverages neuroscience and psychology to offer a rational explanation for how our minds can be tricked even when we are cognizant of an effective illusion. This book is for the scientist and the artist; the skeptic and the optimist; the historian and the futurist.
- The trick of this book is how it connects magic to so many seemingly unrelated topics. From marketing to corporate innovation to entrepreneurship, Rao convincingly makes the case that there's a lot to learn from magicians. In particular, those who've had blockbuster success reinventing themselves and the age-old art of magic itself.
- Rao sets up the reader with an excellent walk through the origins, evolution, and arrival of the contemporary magic scene but ends up revealing a wealth of insights for performers, entrepreneurs, and business professional alike. Magical is a must-read for aspiring professional and amateur magicians as well as those who are seeking to delight consumers and differentiate products in just about any industry. You will never look at magic quite the same way again!
- Where to begin? This book does an excellent job of explaining the modern magic industry to a relative newcomer while not being afraid to explain the science and facts. Rao breaks down the various facets of the illusion industry in a very comprehensive manner, including interviews from popular performers whom provide critical insights into the state of their industry and complimenting them with psychological and historical studies into the popularity of magic. A solid read for anyone interested in the illusion industry.
- If you’re a fan of magic and have an entrepreneurial mindset of disrupting the status quo, then this book is for you. Bharat Rao follows the evolution of magic from its earliest days to the greatest modern performers of our time. He artfully emphasizes business survival skills of magicians throughout the chapters that have led to magic’s impressive success stories over time. A must read for budding magicians and future business innovators wanting to make their mark in the world.
- This was a great book. It did a perfect job of exploring the impact of magic and examining the impact of the magic industry. It was very insightful and informative.
- Great read! Well researched, insightful and engaging.