Are you interested in generating huge emotions in your audience so they will remember your presentation forever?

Magicians are experts in producing memorable moments in their shows. In Rehearsing Your Mistakes, you will learn some of their secret techniques to achieve an outstanding presentation.

Forget about Murphy's law, and take a step forward to create your own events.

Whether you are a professional performer or you just want to improve your public speaking, this book is for you. You will learn some effective improvisation concepts that could save your life when something goes out of the script, you will discover a simple method to do a proper risk assesment during your rehearsal, and you will get to know a bunch of powerful secrets that will create great emotions in your audience.In these pages you will also discover a complete study on creativity, the fantastic muse that all great artists pursue.
Rehearsing Your Mistakes is about a creative process where imagination, technique and experience get together to come to the rescue of the magician in distress.

"Angel Simal has done something unusual, which I found very interesting: he's written an entire work on how we can embrace our failures--both in our shows and in our thinking--and learn from them. It's a worthy task and I found the advice stimulating and useful." - Joshua Jay, world class magician

"To mess up or not to mess up? That is the question. To mess up elegantly, to mess up deliberately, to mess up constantly, to mess up happily. Ángel Simal, thinker and magician’s lifeguard, tells us that mistakes are part of our lives. Hidden or at our sight, failure is always ready to bump into us. Not even the more prepared artists are safe!" - Jaime Figueroa, comedy magician

"Rehearsals, rehearsals, rehearsals… We’re constantly training to do things right, but what happens when something goes wrong? This is bound to happen sooner or later, as mistakes are part of human nature. But if you’re working with your spectators and your error is likely to occur in front of a massive audience, you’d better be ready for that. Every book you’ve read has prepared you to get it right – Ángel Simal’s essay will allow you to design strategies for facing your mistakes. You'll learn how to asses and prioritise the risks and how to optimise your efforts to minimise their impact and frequency, and even how to make the most of your own mistakes. An absolutely essential reading for those of us who work with the audience." - Edama, stage ilusions champion

Book Chapters

Foreword by Norbert Ferré

Preface by the author

0- The Bycicle

1- The Mistake

2- Improvisation

3- Forecasting the Future

4- The Search for the Mistake

5- The Point of No Return

6- Creativity

7- Final thoughts

Acknowledgments