He's using an old Jedi mind trick!

[danoconnor249]

Everyone who likes interesting things, but Than in particular, needs to go to youtube and look up Derren Brown. If you know of this guy already, why didn't you tell me about him earlier? I stumbled onto his show by mistake. Check out the russian scam, anything that says trick or treat, the paper money one, the dog track one, the casino ones, and

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[satyagraha101]

both of my parents are liscenced in NLP. their 'final exam' was to go out on the street and convince people they were psychic. i went to one NLP convention and ended up being mostly cured of a paralyzing fear of needles. pretty crazy stuff

[satyagraha101]

in watching one of the videos, i was amazed at how many of the techniques i recognized while they were in use - matching of eye movement and posture, matching unconscious emotive movements, punctuating key words and concepts with a repeated touch, even the interrupted handshake. its pretty textbook stuff, in a lot of ways, by which i mean its deceptively simple, and you think "that's all there is?" and the answer is pretty much "yup".

interestingly, these techniques are present in other places, like when you train in de-escalation, or in things like aikido, or even zen training, especially the interrupt - get someone to enter into a habitual, unconscious behavior and then interrupt it and the brain goes "whoa, wait, what?" and suddenly they're paying attention, and more importantly their usual social and psychological defenses are completely disarmed for a moment.

really cool to watch in action

[danoconnor249]

It's amazing that this isn't common knowledge. I was really surprised to see him do this, but there is so much information on this and so many people who know how to do it. You'd think that I would have known what this is.

I would love to learn how to do cold reading the way that he does it here. How did your parents get trained? And what does NLP stand for?

[satyagraha101]

they got into into it in the 70's when it was the New Big Thing to be trained in if you were in psychology or sales or some other job that involved influencing people, or at least understanding how they are influenced. my mom at the time had her master's in counseling.

its the sort of thing you go to seminars to be trained in, basically, and at some point become certified. i don't know a lot of details, to be honest.

NLP stands for Neuro-Linguistics Programming. and you're right, there's a HUGE amount of information out there about it, and it has sort of soaked into a load of other Big Pop-Psychological Ideas since. if you do some reading on it, you'll recognize a lot of what they're talking about, since it has disseminated into the cultural milieu since it was first in vogue...

[sueblue]

OMG, I KNOW! I *just* stumbled on his show as well. Did you see the dream manipulation experiment?

[mangokat]

Than was unaware of (our now dear friend) Derren, but thank you! That was some awesome mentalism.

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