A pleasant day to you, Sir Leodini. I hope you keep your cool after reading my question. Bakit merong mga magician na mayayabang at maaangas? (Why are there conceited and boastful magicians?)
Sincerely,
Mr. Humble
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Hi Mr. Humble,
I’ve read your question and I’ve kept my cool.
Isn’t that cool? Me keeping my cool after reading your un-cool question?
Yes, some magicians get swollen-headed after learning a trick or two. Mostly, or two.
They become boastful and cocky. They develop a puff-up attitude after watching too much YouTube magic.
They swagger around showing their awkward double lifts to hapless victims. These swaggering magicians feel they are God’s gift to magic.
They are not. God would never give smart-alecks as a gift to humanity. God doesn’t like cocky magicians performing magic that sucks.
Console yourself with the thought there are just a few smart-alecks who do magic. They are the exception and not the rule.
These egotistical magicians who think they know it all are usually the beginner type. The good news is, they will mellow .
Give them five or ten years. You will see them transform into elegant, respectful performers. The swagger will be gone. In its place is a dignified bearing. A refined personality.
Cockiness is the attitude of adolescents. Magic attracts fans at this age. Yes, you will find people who get bitten by the magic bug later in life. They succumb to magic’s allures in old age. That’s because they had not outgrown their adolescent attitude.
So cut those cocky magicians some slack. They need your attention. Adolescents always do.
In my next post, I will tell you what motivates egotistic magicians into overconfidence. I discovered their motivations after a long, arduous research that spanned 30 minutes of Googling the subject.
Keep posted.
Stay magical,
Leodini's Inner Magic 
I think a large percentage of people in all areas of show business are boastful or conceited. This attitude may be actually due to feelings of insecurity or inferiority in order to compensate for what they perceive as their social inadequacies or ineptness. And to a certain extent I think it is necessary in the highly competitive field of show business if a person is going to survive.
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Hi Sonny, I, too, have the same observation.
I think every discipline, field, or skill has a fair share of boastful types.
Take for example biking. When my son was seven, I taught him how to ride a bike in the neighborhood park. I spent a couple of days pushing the bicycle and holding it so he could balance. At last when he could pedal a few meters without falling, he got over confident. He took off at full speed. He suddenly morphed into a Tour of France cyclist. He went around the park, a big smile plastered on his face every time he passed by me. On his third swing, he hit a small stone and went tumbling down.
Not ready for Tour of France, but he didn’t know it at the time.
Leodini
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