If you think about what magicians do and how they do it, "making the complicated look simple" is also a nice definition of magic. In other words, if you're eve

If you think about what magicians do and how they do it, "making the complicated look simple" is also a nice definition of magic. In other words, if you're ever thinking, "how could she have known that I'd choose the 7 of diamonds?!" you're probably victim of some implicit thought like, "she couldn't possibly have bought 52 decks, pulled out the 7 of diamonds from each of them, and built a deck consisting only of the 7 of diamonds, so that no matter how I shuffled and cut that deck the top card would be the same. No one in their right mind would spend the time and effort to do that." But, that's exactly what she did. She did a lot of abstracted preparation so that the hard work behind the scenes just vanished at the higher level of performance. That's what a good cook does, it's what a magician does, and it's the entire role of "administration" and "middle-men," theoretically-speaking.