The best lesson I learned from being a magician is the magic is for the audience. It’s about them and their experience.

They are not your props to satisfy your own ego.

In the classroom, the best lesson I learned is everything should be attuned so the class is about the students. Not what I want, but what they need.

The second you make anything about yourself, it’s only a matter of time before it all falls.

One wrong move, one bad decision or one mishap in your past and everything comes down with you. How often have we seen that happen in the last few years?

If, however, you make it about something beyond yourself…

beyond your own ego…

then you will have built something worth talking about.