The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins
Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the...
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Do you think it's possible to control someone's attention?Even more than that, what about predicting human behavior?I think those are interesting ideas.For me, that would be the perfect superpower,actually kind of an evil way of approaching it.But for myself, in the past, I've spent the last 20 yearsstudying human behavior from a rather unorthodox way:picking pockets.When we think of misdirection,we think of something as looking off to the side,when actually the things right in front of usare often the hardest to see,the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.For example, how many of you still have your cell phones on you right now?Great. Double-check.Make sure you still have them.I was doing some shopping before.(Laughte...
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Do you think it's possible to control someone's attention?Even more than that, what about predicting human behavior?I think those are interesting ideas.For me, that would be the perfect superpower,actually kind of an evil way of approaching it.But for myself, in the past, I've spent the last 20 yearsstudying human behavior from a rather unorthodox way:picking pockets.When we think of misdirection,we think of something as looking off to the side,when actually the things right in front of usare often the hardest to see,the things that you look at every day that you're blinded to.For example, how many of you still have your cell phones on you right now?Great. Double-check.Make sure you still have them.I was doing some shopping before.(Laughte...
