Let’s admit it: we’ve all been amazed by a magician’s trick or illusion. Whether it was making his assistant disappear, sawing a person in half, or even a sleight-of-hand card trick, we’ve wondered: How did he do that? Later, if we discover how he created the illusion, our amazement vanishes as quickly as the assistant. The next time we see that illusion, it seems so obvious what’s actually going on. What changed? We were able to see things from the magician’s perspective.
