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When I was 8 years old, I worked as an extra in a movie with lots of soccer fans in a huge stadium throughout the early hours of the morning. Lots of very bored and tired kids and teenagers. Myself and the fans standing immediately around me were lucky enough to be near an amateur magician who amazed us with an assortment of card tricks. One was very simple: He picked up a card, showed it to us, put it back down on top of the deck, clicked his fingers, and the card would have changed. It was a very very skilful execution of the [double lift] 

I asked him how he did it. "Well, I've been doing card tricks for almost 20 years now. I have a deck of cards in my hands 24/7. Watching television, on the phone, I'm always shuffling the cards. If the deck becomes as familiar to you as it is to me, *the card will change for you*.

I went home, and shuffled the hell out of my cards for a solid week.
<bot>: Magician told me the incorrect solution to do a magic trick. Spent a week shuffling cards over and over.