Apollo Robbins on Focus | Brain Games

what I think isn’t interesting about the
term misdirection is it it’s misnomer
most people think it means look at this
hand while I do something with this room
but actually what I want to do is direct
and control your attention at least know
where it is because if I send your
attention off into the darkness it can
come around just like throwing a
boomerang it hit me when I don’t want it
to so I like to think of it as managing
attention because control is a hard word
but I manage the attention kind of like
water flow and I see where it goes and
then I have to move with that your
attentional spotlight is only the size
of your thumbnail one one-thousandth of
your field of view that means if I can
see where your eye motion is I can now
navigate around that and do certain
things plus because you have to make
choices between all your senses your
vision your hearing all those are coming
into one spot if I can tap into your
priority system I can now start hacking
to reprioritize certain things so that
other things will go under the radar
that’s a very interesting way to take
advantage of attention try to follow
along if I put the cap on the pen it
looks like it goes away yet right now
it’s behind my elbow I put it back on
the pan it goes away but
it’s behind my ear now if you did this
slowly you can see when I put the cap on
the pan yeah it seems like the cap went
away now the cap is behind here it’s a
fun game isn’t it