I am a mind reader and now we are
probably thinking two things can he
really read my mind and why is he
looking like Santa Claus is going to a
dinner party and that is what the brain
does the brain want to make fast
assumptions about reality that what it
does perfectly and I’m not going to
reveal my specific techniques how
mind-reading works but I am going to
specific reveal how I can trick the mind
of you believing that I am a mind reader
but we’ll begin with a simple warm-up
exercise it’s not very physical stay in
your seats as you did as a walk on stage
and please extend both of your hands
like this the people who do not want to
participate is going to help me on stage
in a moment all you have to do is turn
your thumbs down and cross your right
hand over on top of your left hand and
interlock your fingers which is for you
sir you have to use the other right hand
to put it over the left hand and the arm
has to be parallel to the floor that’s
very important okay thumbs down and you
any questions for the first one you can
say you can take your arms down and I
may I explain and my right is opposite
to your right because we are face to
face and I also have a I’m able to
dislocate my right arm and actually and
if you’re really really quiet
you can actually hear it it’s especially
this joint over here it’s just a plastic
glass calm down and that is exactly why
this is called looking for the broken
glass and these are great you can buy
those you get 50 of those for 20 Coronas
the other day my wife my wife said oh
honey would you please move along and I
took one of these this is I’m sorry
honey I have a little neck problem you
have to time it very well
you have to nail it because this next
example do not work I repeat this do not
work you just look like an idiot and the
last one and thank you for three persons
applauding if that’s all you got save it
please this is just an advice for all
the men in the audience if you are going
downtown after this and you were
standing in the bar and said hey I just
went to this TED event and the theater
and all the girls is gathering around
you and you are not really in the mood
you just take one of these and I says
I’m sorry it’s broken you can we have
that your reaction over here at the
microphone was interested because you
haven’t seen this yet I wind over here
and you go yeah and then I took it out
from the armpit it’s just a glass and
then you laughed and that’s the essence
of the mind the mind is jumping to a
false conclusion immediately and then
afterwards it realizes what the real
truth is and I take advantage of that as
a mind reader because as a mind reader I
have three techniques
the first one is hypnosis the second one
is communication either verbal or
nonverbal and the third and most
important technique is you’re
right and to clarify that I just on a
that is my other side I am basically a
professional liar but I’m the most
honest liar you will ever meet because
in the beginning of each show I do as a
mind reader
I tell the audience I am going to lie
and I keep that promise through the
whole show so that’s basically it
because my job as a mind reader is to
just slip under the radar my job is to
say something on that say something that
sounds plausible that sounds like the
truth my job is to eliminate every
logical solution so the only one that is
left is that I am a mind reader and I
will recommend a book called Thinking
Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
wonderful book and basically your mind
thinks fast and slow two plus two is
four if I say 73 – 37 and you have to do
something and my I work in the gray zone
in the middle my job is to make
something prop something plausible for
instance how many animals of each
species did Moses bring on the ark when
God flooded the world the answer is zero
because there was Noah who built the ark
but Moses is another biblical name that
is plausible in the sentence so my job
is to rule eliminate every logical
reason and I brought a pack of playing
cards and you with the tit seam so you
don’t work what is your name sir Michael
oh what a coincidence Michael I just
need you to take this and hello Michael
nice to meet you and could you please
check if any card is missing in this
pack of cards yeah and it could take a
while and I will have 18 minutes so
please
I haven’t shuffled these cards left can
you see all the 13 spades here from Ace
to King yeah they followed by all the
they followed by the diamonds from a
sticking yeah
thank you are they followed by the clubs
from Ace to King yes and followed by the
Hertz from Ace to King Leo perfect I’m
also going to shuffle these cards and
you go to confirm that it is a shuffle
deck of cards if you’re not satisfied I
hang on and Michael they are not
shuffled well enough I promise you I
will do it once again is this also now a
shuffle pack of cards Michael they are
perfect retrieve the mic and would you
stand up please and just point to any
cards just point to any card did that
feel as what sorry which one did that
feel like a free choice perfect remember
this place now I could do this as fair
as possible even though all the cards
are there even Joseph shuffle pack even
though you felt it was a free choice you
won’t believe me that’s why I brought
these rubber bands my name is Michael
what is your name
yeah in a minute you have to take the
pack of carts in a minute place it in
your hand with the back side up open one
place remember the card close the pack
of card again okay open anyway like
remember the card close the pack and
then send the pack five seats we left my
name is Michael what’s your name sir
honest Oh anyway won’t remember the card
and close the pack again and five seats
to your left
three four five what’s your name sir you
mean open anyway wanted me to remember
the cards and close the pack and she
wrote to me
Emil stand up Anna stand up and immedi
stand up and Michael stand up just think
of your cards okay and to see if I’m
tuned in I have a feeling that the
majority of you have a high card
a high-cut is in my mind seven eight
nine ten Jack Queen club if you have a
high card please raise your hand that’s
the majority perfect and focus specific
on your card and the middle do have a
heart I’ll take another guess hang on
I’ll do the four times no because the
heart the heart came from you right yes
and you have a spade you have a heart
yeah yeah yeah yeah but and me use a
diamond right perfect
think of the specific value of your
courage and omit it is you cut a number
card number Carswell yeah number card
and number Curt and I’ll tell you in a
moment what just happened because we
have a rare coincidence
that’s why I’ve missed interpreted
something if I name your cart just take
a seat two diamonds
seven of hearts now the reason why I had
a little problem with you is because I
believe you looked at the exact same
spot in this pack of cards so now just
reveal one card is that issue card to
but that is the illusion of truth
there’s an extra term called illusion of
truth and that is my job my job is to
make your brain jumps to fun there’s a
lot of different things there’s
something called cognitive biases a lot
of ways you can trick the mind for
instance if you get promoted it’s really
really great or something is saying it
to you with confidence the majority of
the population in America believes that
the number one threat is that they are
going to be killed by a terrorist attack
the truth is you are 20 times more
likely to be killed by an asteroid
hitting you in your head from outer
space that’s the honest truth
if you see an actor dressed as a dentist
selling you a toothpaste it seems like a
plausible reason to buy a toothpaste
because it’s that good in the
supermarket’s buy two for only it must
be a good offer it must be so the more
times things is repeated to you the more
times it’s being sell to you in a
plausible way it could become the truth
now I’m going to change your reality a
little bit with this no one is going to
get hypnotized no one is going to feel
sick in any way actually if you do this
it’s really really funny and you have to
stare at this so all you have to just is
pre blink so everybody do this perfect
and then keep your eyes open and stare
in the center in a moment I’m going to
count down from ten until one and then
there’s a command because now I’m
changing your reality a little bit the
white is going to turn yellow please
keep looking at it
ten nine eight seven six
five four three two one
you’ll turn normal hang on your cinoman
that does change your reality for just a
few seconds because your brain is
starting to compensate for the spiral
moving and when the spiral stops moving
your brain is still compensating and
then when you look at my fleshy hair it
seems like it’s going to explode
okay your brain believes that it has to
compensate because the world is moving
and the beliefs the power of belief is
really really crucial here I am a
hypnotist and that is called
unauthorized treatment it’s a guy with a
beard talking to you in 45 minutes and
when you walk out of the door you’re not
alone you are no longer friends matters
because you choose to believe that
you’re no longer afraid of spiders and
the Jusuf and I think it’s okay with
unauthorized treatment if you believe
that putting this yellow if you go to a
crystal healer and he says you have to
put this yellow crystal in your pocket
that will focus all the cosmic energy
and shoot it directly into your yellow
solar plexus chakra and boost your
confidence and self esteem if you
believe that is working for you I think
it’s okay you have to kick the healer in
the crystals when he tells you to come
back
every month to have the crystal read
chats with new cosmic entity for only
295 but the first thing I really believe
is okay I really really do but would
that say yeah I don’t think people have
an extraordinary mind that could contact
the dead I don’t believe people have a
mind that could do miracles to heal you
and I’m whole I’d really don’t believe
it I believe in the power of belief I
believe I don’t believe the brain can do
fantastic things but
I have a wife and we have three kids one
of each and two boys and a young girl
she was born in 2009 and this is the
honest truth and I hope I’m not going to
cry
really she was born in 2009 and after
six hours she got the cramps the right
she turned the white out of her eyes and
the right side of her body
switched for four to six minutes five to
six times per hour which is a lot of
cramps for a newly born baby and they
took it really really seriously they
really really did and then we will
transport it to a huge hospital and they
measured blah blah blah and and em ours
and they are scanned her brain and then
we could see a a fine picture like a
brown pizza and but there was one slice
that was dead because there were two
blood clots in the center of the brain
that was impossible to remove and then
there was a doctor dressed as a doctor
showing us a picture telling us that
well we can that it’s hard to say what
is going to happen it could either be
just a lame arm a hanging arm a dangling
arm to something called cerebral palsy
which is basically half side of the
have a nice day
we my wife and I refused to accept that
as the truth so we went to a we went to
a physiotherapist three times per week
for six months to look how she did and
on purpose and on purpose we put the
tours on the right side of the body of
the bad side on purpose we turned the
high chair with the her right side to
the table with the food and slowly Shh
the movement came back more and more and
six months after she was born
they mr scanned her brain again and we
[Applause]
thank you for that pause and we received
a letter on the 20th on the 23rd of
December after a doctor’s conference and
said blah blah bah bah bah
the conclusion is your daughter have no
so please when you are in the darkest
hour of your life when you see some
someone for the first time please if you
making any judgment about their behavior
about the condition about about the way
they look please please please look for
I know [Applause]
probably thinking two things can he
really read my mind and why is he
looking like Santa Claus is going to a
dinner party and that is what the brain
does the brain want to make fast
assumptions about reality that what it
does perfectly and I’m not going to
reveal my specific techniques how
mind-reading works but I am going to
specific reveal how I can trick the mind
of you believing that I am a mind reader
but we’ll begin with a simple warm-up
exercise it’s not very physical stay in
your seats as you did as a walk on stage
and please extend both of your hands
like this the people who do not want to
participate is going to help me on stage
in a moment all you have to do is turn
your thumbs down and cross your right
hand over on top of your left hand and
interlock your fingers which is for you
sir you have to use the other right hand
to put it over the left hand and the arm
has to be parallel to the floor that’s
very important okay thumbs down and you
any questions for the first one you can
say you can take your arms down and I
may I explain and my right is opposite
to your right because we are face to
face and I also have a I’m able to
dislocate my right arm and actually and
if you’re really really quiet
you can actually hear it it’s especially
this joint over here it’s just a plastic
glass calm down and that is exactly why
this is called looking for the broken
glass and these are great you can buy
those you get 50 of those for 20 Coronas
the other day my wife my wife said oh
honey would you please move along and I
took one of these this is I’m sorry
honey I have a little neck problem you
have to time it very well
you have to nail it because this next
example do not work I repeat this do not
work you just look like an idiot and the
last one and thank you for three persons
applauding if that’s all you got save it
please this is just an advice for all
the men in the audience if you are going
downtown after this and you were
standing in the bar and said hey I just
went to this TED event and the theater
and all the girls is gathering around
you and you are not really in the mood
you just take one of these and I says
I’m sorry it’s broken you can we have
that your reaction over here at the
microphone was interested because you
haven’t seen this yet I wind over here
and you go yeah and then I took it out
from the armpit it’s just a glass and
then you laughed and that’s the essence
of the mind the mind is jumping to a
false conclusion immediately and then
afterwards it realizes what the real
truth is and I take advantage of that as
a mind reader because as a mind reader I
have three techniques
the first one is hypnosis the second one
is communication either verbal or
nonverbal and the third and most
important technique is you’re
right and to clarify that I just on a
that is my other side I am basically a
professional liar but I’m the most
honest liar you will ever meet because
in the beginning of each show I do as a
mind reader
I tell the audience I am going to lie
and I keep that promise through the
whole show so that’s basically it
because my job as a mind reader is to
just slip under the radar my job is to
say something on that say something that
sounds plausible that sounds like the
truth my job is to eliminate every
logical solution so the only one that is
left is that I am a mind reader and I
will recommend a book called Thinking
Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
wonderful book and basically your mind
thinks fast and slow two plus two is
four if I say 73 – 37 and you have to do
something and my I work in the gray zone
in the middle my job is to make
something prop something plausible for
instance how many animals of each
species did Moses bring on the ark when
God flooded the world the answer is zero
because there was Noah who built the ark
but Moses is another biblical name that
is plausible in the sentence so my job
is to rule eliminate every logical
reason and I brought a pack of playing
cards and you with the tit seam so you
don’t work what is your name sir Michael
oh what a coincidence Michael I just
need you to take this and hello Michael
nice to meet you and could you please
check if any card is missing in this
pack of cards yeah and it could take a
while and I will have 18 minutes so
please
I haven’t shuffled these cards left can
you see all the 13 spades here from Ace
to King yeah they followed by all the
they followed by the diamonds from a
sticking yeah
thank you are they followed by the clubs
from Ace to King yes and followed by the
Hertz from Ace to King Leo perfect I’m
also going to shuffle these cards and
you go to confirm that it is a shuffle
deck of cards if you’re not satisfied I
hang on and Michael they are not
shuffled well enough I promise you I
will do it once again is this also now a
shuffle pack of cards Michael they are
perfect retrieve the mic and would you
stand up please and just point to any
cards just point to any card did that
feel as what sorry which one did that
feel like a free choice perfect remember
this place now I could do this as fair
as possible even though all the cards
are there even Joseph shuffle pack even
though you felt it was a free choice you
won’t believe me that’s why I brought
these rubber bands my name is Michael
what is your name
yeah in a minute you have to take the
pack of carts in a minute place it in
your hand with the back side up open one
place remember the card close the pack
of card again okay open anyway like
remember the card close the pack and
then send the pack five seats we left my
name is Michael what’s your name sir
honest Oh anyway won’t remember the card
and close the pack again and five seats
to your left
three four five what’s your name sir you
mean open anyway wanted me to remember
the cards and close the pack and she
wrote to me
Emil stand up Anna stand up and immedi
stand up and Michael stand up just think
of your cards okay and to see if I’m
tuned in I have a feeling that the
majority of you have a high card
a high-cut is in my mind seven eight
nine ten Jack Queen club if you have a
high card please raise your hand that’s
the majority perfect and focus specific
on your card and the middle do have a
heart I’ll take another guess hang on
I’ll do the four times no because the
heart the heart came from you right yes
and you have a spade you have a heart
yeah yeah yeah yeah but and me use a
diamond right perfect
think of the specific value of your
courage and omit it is you cut a number
card number Carswell yeah number card
and number Curt and I’ll tell you in a
moment what just happened because we
have a rare coincidence
that’s why I’ve missed interpreted
something if I name your cart just take
a seat two diamonds
seven of hearts now the reason why I had
a little problem with you is because I
believe you looked at the exact same
spot in this pack of cards so now just
reveal one card is that issue card to
but that is the illusion of truth
there’s an extra term called illusion of
truth and that is my job my job is to
make your brain jumps to fun there’s a
lot of different things there’s
something called cognitive biases a lot
of ways you can trick the mind for
instance if you get promoted it’s really
really great or something is saying it
to you with confidence the majority of
the population in America believes that
the number one threat is that they are
going to be killed by a terrorist attack
the truth is you are 20 times more
likely to be killed by an asteroid
hitting you in your head from outer
space that’s the honest truth
if you see an actor dressed as a dentist
selling you a toothpaste it seems like a
plausible reason to buy a toothpaste
because it’s that good in the
supermarket’s buy two for only it must
be a good offer it must be so the more
times things is repeated to you the more
times it’s being sell to you in a
plausible way it could become the truth
now I’m going to change your reality a
little bit with this no one is going to
get hypnotized no one is going to feel
sick in any way actually if you do this
it’s really really funny and you have to
stare at this so all you have to just is
pre blink so everybody do this perfect
and then keep your eyes open and stare
in the center in a moment I’m going to
count down from ten until one and then
there’s a command because now I’m
changing your reality a little bit the
white is going to turn yellow please
keep looking at it
ten nine eight seven six
five four three two one
you’ll turn normal hang on your cinoman
that does change your reality for just a
few seconds because your brain is
starting to compensate for the spiral
moving and when the spiral stops moving
your brain is still compensating and
then when you look at my fleshy hair it
seems like it’s going to explode
okay your brain believes that it has to
compensate because the world is moving
and the beliefs the power of belief is
really really crucial here I am a
hypnotist and that is called
unauthorized treatment it’s a guy with a
beard talking to you in 45 minutes and
when you walk out of the door you’re not
alone you are no longer friends matters
because you choose to believe that
you’re no longer afraid of spiders and
the Jusuf and I think it’s okay with
unauthorized treatment if you believe
that putting this yellow if you go to a
crystal healer and he says you have to
put this yellow crystal in your pocket
that will focus all the cosmic energy
and shoot it directly into your yellow
solar plexus chakra and boost your
confidence and self esteem if you
believe that is working for you I think
it’s okay you have to kick the healer in
the crystals when he tells you to come
back
every month to have the crystal read
chats with new cosmic entity for only
295 but the first thing I really believe
is okay I really really do but would
that say yeah I don’t think people have
an extraordinary mind that could contact
the dead I don’t believe people have a
mind that could do miracles to heal you
and I’m whole I’d really don’t believe
it I believe in the power of belief I
believe I don’t believe the brain can do
fantastic things but
I have a wife and we have three kids one
of each and two boys and a young girl
she was born in 2009 and this is the
honest truth and I hope I’m not going to
cry
really she was born in 2009 and after
six hours she got the cramps the right
she turned the white out of her eyes and
the right side of her body
switched for four to six minutes five to
six times per hour which is a lot of
cramps for a newly born baby and they
took it really really seriously they
really really did and then we will
transport it to a huge hospital and they
measured blah blah blah and and em ours
and they are scanned her brain and then
we could see a a fine picture like a
brown pizza and but there was one slice
that was dead because there were two
blood clots in the center of the brain
that was impossible to remove and then
there was a doctor dressed as a doctor
showing us a picture telling us that
well we can that it’s hard to say what
is going to happen it could either be
just a lame arm a hanging arm a dangling
arm to something called cerebral palsy
which is basically half side of the
have a nice day
we my wife and I refused to accept that
as the truth so we went to a we went to
a physiotherapist three times per week
for six months to look how she did and
on purpose and on purpose we put the
tours on the right side of the body of
the bad side on purpose we turned the
high chair with the her right side to
the table with the food and slowly Shh
the movement came back more and more and
six months after she was born
they mr scanned her brain again and we
[Applause]
thank you for that pause and we received
a letter on the 20th on the 23rd of
December after a doctor’s conference and
said blah blah bah bah bah
the conclusion is your daughter have no
so please when you are in the darkest
hour of your life when you see some
someone for the first time please if you
making any judgment about their behavior
about the condition about about the way
they look please please please look for
I know [Applause]
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