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Stagnation is death. [Neitzsche]
This seems particularly true for an artist, especially if your intention is to have a long career. And yet in Magic we have act after act whose material remains static through the years, and a lot of these acts make a good living and travel all over the world; clearly the need to evolve is actually a personal choice.
Magic isn't alone in this. Agatha Christie produced formulaic story after story that differed from her other work only in the details, and yet the public never seems to tire of her novels and countless others follow in her footsteps. There are actors who build an entire career portraying the same archetype, and musicians and painters whose entire portfolio could best be described as variations on a theme. These examples demonstrate that constantly evolving your performance is not mandatory for a successful career. So why change?
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