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Trick of The Mind | Vish CS | TEDxCMRIT


you
this is a hand-drawn maze and I want all
of you to not pay attention to this if I
don’t look at it but at some point you
will feel tempted to look at this if you
get a chance to look at it just think of
how you’re living this life in this very
little maze all right we’ll come back to
this in a bit I’m gonna keep this here
alright guys how’s the food let’s do a
quick warmup all of you okay before I
tell you what I’m gonna do and who I am
everybody eyes on me and hold your hands
like this just like so clap your hands
okay reverse your hands okay now the
right hand goes up the left interlace
your fingers
notice that your right thumb is facing
outside you’re probably doing it the
other way so the right thumb is outside
hold your four fingers just like this an
inch apart and tap three times now if
you all did not allow me to trick your
mind you would all be able to do this
my name is fish and I’m a mental minds
and I influence thoughts how do I do it
I do this with a specific set of skills
that involve a combination of magic
psychology linguistic deception neuro
linguistic programming alright let’s get
started up let’s do something really fun
with um let’s speak someone ma’am
second row hi can you tell us your name
please you are correct
can I call you
Eike can I call you an icon okay I’m
gonna be writing a message for you which
makes sense love minutes so right I’ll
just stare right here do you like coffee
or tea what do you like like coffee and
you like it hot cold I’ve written
something for you for all of you are you
good at catching pencils try this ha ha
all right so neither at this point if
I’d asked you to tell us all a random
two-digit number that comes to your mind
right now what would it be sorry 25 why
did we say 25 just popped into your mind
now the question is why did you say 25
did I read your mind did I influence
your thoughts or was it the hundred
dollars that I gave you outside because
Anitha that is the exact same number
that I’ve written
but I want to pick someone for this and
this is very special okay before I pick
someone I want all of you to think of
your first crush
or your first love just think of one
everybody are you guys thinking okay
ma’am if I would ask you to name your
first crush don’t name how many letters
is there in this person’s name Oh mind
six okay so the numbers vary right can I
have so I’m gonna pick somebody at
random right now all right
and can the organizers can can you just
point me to someone so that no I don’t
pick make a selection or something
we got the mic keep the mic with you say
hi hi is there any way that I will know
the name of your first crush did I did
you tell it to me in my ear did you miss
per edit or something in my ear or did I
pay you so much to say no always okay
genuine this is a genuine thing right
that there is no I mean I didn’t pay you
lots of money to write it down or
something like and do anything there’s
no way I will know it this is a genuine
thing I want you to think about how this
person looks it’s a she or he
okay okay why am I getting a she vibe
from you just look at me and I think I
got it well just just keep thinking how
he looks yeah I was just kidding guys I
was just kidding you all thought
mind-reading was that easy huh no
there’s the most difficult thing I want
you to think of the first name I mean
the first letter in the name please fast
M sound is that an N n n is that an N
is that an end and think of the rest of
the letters for me and just pick one
letter from there in the name anyone
anyone anyone that I just think don’t
tell me anything you just picked uh e I
guess not yet how many letters are there
in this person’s name in your mind don’t
tell me seven yeah okay for the first
time can you tell us all the name of
your first crush son now that is Rashad
ladies and gentlemen
all right thank you so much at a big
round of applause for her thank you so
much you made the same thing happened
some time back where I was doing a
corporate show and then there’s this
person here which can you tell me how
you did that I said if I have to tell
you my friend I’ll have to kill you and
then he was like he pointed his finger
at his wife and said why don’t you tell
her so but to be honest okay to be
honest we all have this innate ability
to read minds
we all are mind reader’s it’s just that
we don’t know the abilities we don’t
know that we have this ability with us
it’s just that okay and that the only
reason how we are good mind reader’s is
we are all connected okay
we are all connected in a special way we
as human beings and I’m gonna
demonstrate that to you right now okay
can we have like two people whom you
think are really connected like raise
your hands okay I see two people they’re
like you’re not connected you’re like
the gap actually okay let’s try to bring
them together
can you please join me on stage hi there
what’s your name chica chica please
stand it here and hi what’s your name it
is so Chicana thishe you guys know each
other really well no you don’t know each
other really well
okay can you remove your glasses for me
okay and to look good okay I can’t I
can’t see you guys so you come can you
see with your without your glasses okay
close your eyes because we open close
your eyes close your eyes everybody can
see chica okay
close your eyes chica and just nod your
head if you get this noria head if you
get this and nod your head if you get
this not a head to forget this brilliant
chica I want you to open your eyes okay
you felt that just at different parts of
your body right I’ll ask you to close
your eyes again
your eyes are closed we’ll get a small
touch at some part of your face I wanted
to remember it as simple as that okay
close your eyes for me sheikah so
sheikah when your eyes are closed you’ll
find a small kind of a sensation
somewhere right there can you point to
the right hand where you felt it okay
there’s something we’ll talk about later
okay I want you to focus all your
attention on this very small touch can
you point with your right hand where you
felt it okay and she come focus all your
energy on this small gentle flow yes can
you point we felt it can you point the
direction of flow please put your hands
down
thank you so much you can now open your
eyes always remember to fit and forget
to remember because you have no idea
what just happened we’re going to help
out what happened you felt a touch under
your chin your nose and your hands a
couple of times right what if I tell you
I’d not touch you at all did I touch
chica I’d not touch you at all because I
was touching nitish on his nose and you
felt it on your nose I did the same
thing on his chin and got that picky
feeling on your chin I did the same
thing on his hand a couple of times and
you you felt it yes and that’s how you
stay connected by the way guys this
effect remains the whole week
and thank you and that means if you get
an itch at some part of your body it’s
not me you know whom to blame for all
right now one last thing I’d like to do
with the connectivity part okay chica I
want you to stand here initiative I need
your help in this just and like so okay
and chica I want you to be really quick
at this okay there’s a pen okay yeah you
can wear your glasses please okay chica
close your eyes keep your eyes closed
don’t open it’s going to be something
like everybody can see this this one
okay and everybody can see that okay
it’s going to be one of this or
something very similar so she can I want
you to think right now keep your mind
open and think of a drawing that you can
come up with okay you’ve seen this right
yeah I want you to project project this
thought to her keep her eyes closed
please and ladies and gentlemen I want
you to do the same thing just project an
image which is very similar we might be
wrong but everybody okay
we can add this off she got did you get
this object that you were thinking of
can you open your eyes and for the first
time and by the way tell us all there is
no way that I know ahead of time what
you’re thinking of it’s a fair
experiment before short on time so can
you go ahead and put the drawing can you
make it big please can you make it big
and that is how we are connected it is
it is almost similar I think that worked
right not this but it was almost similar
and that means you know what happened we
all were actually thinking of the same
symbol that you drew freaky freaky
people around that is what she can or
now TEDx I should thank them for this
but you know something special about
that axis it’s been coloring all our
lives with brilliant ideas like this
parking sparkling conversations I
thought of an idea why don’t we color
TEDx cm RIT today and like a volunteer
who’s very very creative
can you oh look at her she’s like
can you please come on stage and help us
with this the show this one is really
important and I want to keep this with
you and please she is going to be my
creative side and we are going to come
with and collaborative platform it’s
going to be very simple I want you to
keep this pad with you and start picking
the pens when I ask you to and then
color it where I ask you to and then
discard the pens as simple as that okay
guys I need her to be creative because
I’m going to lose all my creativity
I promise you I cannot see anything okay
now can you just come close okay where
where are you I’m sorry are you guys
still there okay
make some noise Wow okay I want you I
cannot see anything guys okay I’m gonna
turn this side
I want you to go and pick a pen take any
pen that you want you pick the pen can
you color the e let’s go a little crazy
can you just mark the e with that color
okay and discard the pen please can you
pick another pen you have a pen in your
hand you have it right can you mark the
X the logo the X in the logo
just go you just going crazy guys we are
going from one side to the okay you’re
done you can discard it can you quickly
pick one more sorry you’re done if you
have a pen in your hand mark the D just
color the D okay we’re coming with
random colors at random places okay now
pick one more discard it and pick one
more you pick your pick okay if you have
a pen in your hand go ahead and let’s go
to the the entire cm RIT paint it just
just strike it with that color
are you done that’s so nice of you
so we’re less left with last one I guess
right can you go and pick the last one
okay can you go ahead and what is left
I lost God can you put this color on the
tea okay can I open this please okay so
guys I have no idea of what just
happened this is a red D and that’s a
yellow e and that’s okay you can keep
this with you it’s a blue X do you think
I would have already known this before
can you say the colors to me or HD okay
you know what all the predictions that I
have
but wait we’re not done thank you so
much so we are back to the maze thank
you this is it reminds us of something
it reminds us of how we are living our
life in this very little maze and we are
all like this tiny dots that are
constantly striving to fight around and
trying to solve this maze but eventually
we forget the essence of life
okay one needs light of wisdom to know
the essence of life
thank you so much thank you soft ice and
always remember one thing positive
thoughts because you never know who’s
really
[Applause]
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