V.E. Day wrote:Part-Timer wrote:
What if a magician absolutely sucks at performing? There is no charm, no speaking ability, no empathy, just tricks. Are some people really just hopeless cases? What if the very best someone can ever be in performance terms is average?
I went to a lecture last year with a magician who grew up with a speech impediment which caused him alot of embarassment when he was younger. As a result of that he favoured performing silently to music and put together a very successful dove act that he toured round Europe and UK and was was successful with the dove act for over a decade and is still performing magic now. Some of us are given obstacles and disabilities in life that we have to over come, it just means that we have to work harder to succeed. So if, as you say, someone has no charm, no speaking ability, no empathy, then I think these are not so much disabilities but just small things they can work harder at. As has been suggested they can do this by exaggerating aspects of their personality that do work, or adopting character that gives them a greater stage presence.
Many years ago I read a book called "The Importance of Feeling Inferior" The author contended that a feeling of inferioriy drove many people to success. I remember him quoting people like Liberace and Charles Atlas among many others. After all if you are satisfied to be as you are why try to improve yourself?