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“Risk is what you don’t see”
I’d never heard this story until Morgan told it.
Harry Houdini is one of the greatest illusionists to ever live. On a strange day in 1926 he was relaxing in his dressing room.
A group of students came to visit him. Seems innocent.
One of the students asked if it was true he could resist hard blows to the abdomen. Harmless question. Then out of nowhere the little sh*t starts punching Houdini in the abdomen.
Houdini wasn’t prepared.
The poor illusionist couldn’t take it anymore and signaled for the innocent punches to stop.
Houdini comments afterwards, according to the book The Edge of Unknown, that if he could prepare or if he’d known how hard the punches were going to be, he would have stood up from the couch.
But he couldn’t prepare.
In his famous acts there was loads of preparation. During this unexpected event there was none.
24 hours later Houdini suffered abdominal pain. I’ve had it, and it’s not pleasant. Shortly after…
