Teller Reveals His Secrets

> 2. Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth. You will be fooled by a trick if it involves more time, money and practice than you (or any other sane onlooker) would be willing to invest.

Universal advice pretty much.

This link was shared by Prof. Shriram Krishnamurthi in his talk "Curriculum Design as an Engineering Problem" at EPFL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_E2IwlprY. People who're interested in questions like what is a good first programming language, how to teach programming effectively, and how to be better programmers ourselves, will find many practical insights in his talk.

> If you are given a choice, you believe you have acted freely.

This works really well on kids. "Would you like to brush your teeth with the red toothbrush or the blue toothbrush?"

Oh, that Teller! I thought it was Edward with so-far unrevealed manuscripts.