The single most valuable chapter in the book is "The Principle of Pacing." Ortiz explains why doing a trick too quickly destroys the miracle, but doing it too slowly bores the audience. He gives you a mathematical formula for timing your effects.
: Understanding how to manipulate the audience's logic so they attribute the magic to a false cause, making the real cause impossible to detect. Summary of Sections darwin ortiz designing miraclespdf
Darwin Ortiz took the opposite approach. The single most valuable chapter in the book