Derren Brown Tricks Of Mind by Derren Brown (PDF)

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⭐I should do a video review and may, a bit later, but for now wanted say this book was amazing. Epically informative (and FUNNY! — db’s british humor is brilliantly funny! seriously!) I loved the loci palace memory methods. He provides three excellent memory mnemonic mind tools “peg, loci, and link” all work fantastically. Have read many books on memory methods and many of the ones in other books are pony and trivial and ineffective. All three of darrrens’ mnemonic devices are extremely effective and powerful. They’re the only three that work. If you add any more than tthe link, peg, and loci you’ll just be repeating variations of one of those three. So even three mbnemonic methods may be unnecessary, but that part WORKS.His discussin of detecting deceit was fantastic and revealing . I loved how he showed ways to to detect deceit from Two angles: Look for signs of truth-telling, look for signs of deceit! He reveals both of those classifications of signs.I loved his intellectual slaughtering of alternative medicine, spiritualism, psychic BS, and religion and have listened to the full Dawkins God delusion audio and plan to delve into that liberating field by scrutinizing and reading more of dawkins and Hitchens.I learned and practiced the two tricks he taught in the book (which really do work, althoguht they’re presented as something somewhat metaphorical. I performed the coin one in the squalor of los angeles, but in a pretty cool place at the house of blues, and was met by a gleeful audidence chick.) One thing I LOVED is his humorous and insulting phrases he calls participants “dunderheads” or merry-Andrew or mooncalf. LOL hysterical righteously.what else His discussion of hypnosis was more biographical. Didn’t learn much anything new there, but worthwhile to learn about the greatest showmanship hypnotist EVER’s bio of hypnotism. Some of the stories, namely the hypnotism as self-defence were extremely amusing.Part5 he goes into ALL of these tells. An enormous array of tells. how voice tone, hand gestures, even EYE flickerings, and micro-face movements all give away lies (or truth if said aberrations are absent). THAT was truly fascinating. he lists 14 signs of truthfulness in speech, voice, body. after this huge assault of give-aways to lying, and patterns that liars use and how their lies are revealed in changes in their wording, their voice tone, everything. That was IMMENSELY cool.by far the coolest part of the book was the short miniscule sub-chapter on “Muscle-Reading”. I consider that derren’s greatest trick. And unfortunately there was only a short bit on it.Most uplifting was his outright direct cool scientific dissection of the pendulum and ouija board fraudulence and how that works simply through ideomotor effect. This book is something that i can trust. when there’s SOOO much fallacious crap (spiritualism, religion, utterly atrotious mysticism crap that’s actually published?! How can that stuff get publihed! Dispecable). out there. This is a book is comforting in that it attacks that. So basically this is one of the few books (along with dawkins and science textbooks) that I can actually trust! lol.Fantastic book. And my review is most certainly highly skewed because of my enormous reverence for DB. Fantastic character, easily hands down the most shocking nad impressive stage performances ever (that likely encompasses all genres. Rock concerts are likely sometimes more “energizing” but certainly not more impressive in a way than DB. let’s just say they’re on par with entertaining) but he does it one-man show, so even more awe-inspiring. Music is still cool. This is quite rambling. but the bottom-line: fantastic book, informative, GREAT anecdotes for detecting liars in body and voice, debunking fallacies of psychics and mediums crap, being extremely humorous and funny, being british (i like and trust british authors MUCh more and by far, the bulk of the authors I’ve read have been british from Roald Dahl as a kid to Brown, hitchens, and Dawkins now and Douglas adams too of course), entertaining and massively rich with techniques and tricks to expand your mind, slaughter bad thinking, and learn how some part of one of the greatest magician’s EVER works!This is VERY good book. It’s informative. I will read it again to master the mnemonic techniques, the deceit-detection, touch up on teh card and coin trick, and read up on again and reabsorb the whole Part5:Unconscious communication bit likely. But I read the book very thoroughl, found it informative because of the above mentioned, humorous and incredibly amusing.A joy to read of the candid inside world to this truly World Class International hypnotist and magician.The BEST part of this! is the striking irony that DB simultaneously aims to mystify and awe with his magic as he does simultaneously aim to debunk all fake psychics and BS spiritualitists.The last part on pseudo-science and bad thinking was great, but I’ll leave that up to Dawkins and Hitchens. Derren offered obviously a less intellectual, more entertaining, sexier, more performance-based discussion of the kind of dawkins-hitchens anti-religion discussions. That WHOLE anti-pseudo-science anti-religion, atheism thing is very much my bag. Tricks of the mind is an integral text to that “atheist bag” and found this book extremely valuable.

⭐Awesome, a great read. Thanks.

⭐I don’t even know where to start with this review, as the book is absolutely packed with insight. First, if you are the sort to be offended by criticisms of organized religion, you will likely be offended from page one and throw the whole book out as a result. Ironically, that just proves much of the premise of the book. But I digress. Darren Brown is one of the greatest thinkers of this relatively young 21st Century. I cannot remember a book that was able to balance cunning wit with intellectual acumen from start to finish– most books usually sacrifice one for the other, but not so in this case. For example, he writes, “I have a neighbor, Mike. (That’s not his real name, to spare the guy embarrassment. His real name is Guy.)” in the same paragraph in which he addresses the use of sham medicine to take advantage of a sick person in his most vulnerable state.In this book, you will learn: how to defend yourself from a robbing at gunpoint; remember virtually any name (I tried it the same morning I read it, using a dog and the dog’s owner I met on a walk with my own dog, and I will never again forget either of their names again); for once and for all put the question to rest whether hypnosis works; learn how to put somebody in a “hypnotic” state (with appropriate caution); compliment somebody who gave a ridiculously wrong answer and correcting him without making him feel stupid; create mass hysteria over the fictional release of tarantulas (not that you should do that); recognize that nobody thinks about us as much as we think they do; detect more accurately than a polygraph whether a person is lying (hint: it has little to do with eye contact, at least as we think we understand it); counteract confirmation bias; among many other things.The world needs more Darren Browns, but because there is only one, it is best that he teach the rest of the world how to think as he does. While we may ultimately fall short, it is really worth a try.

⭐This is exactly what I was hoping it would be: Derren writing to hobbyists and the interested layman. There are a few basic magic tricks, but the focus is on theory and presentation.This is a good book if you’ve already been at magic or mentalism and really want to understand how to relate to spectators as well enhance your effects to make them feel more impossible. Also good if you want a nice summary of memory techniques, the basics of hypnotism, and some exploration of “psychic” abilities. Or if you just want to get into a magician’s mind.Don’t expect to learn how he pulled off TV stunts. This isn’t a tell all book for people asking “how the heck did he do that,” though by the end you’ll get the general idea how much of it works in theory.Also if you’re thin-skinned when it comes to someone daring to say they don’t believe in God (like some reviewers here), then you’ll likely be offended. He includes this because you really must understand his background and beliefs to understand where he is coming from.Overall I think this is a great read if you’re genuinely interested in learning about mentalism. Its enough to satisfy the intellectually curious, though It’s not going to get you there by itself if you want to do it yourself. Luckily Derren also leaves a huge list of recommended reading and other resources at the end.

⭐I bought this book while stuck in traffic waiting for Tower Bridge to be fixed. I was bored listening to replays of the current UK number 1 single, Bad Habits by Ed Sheeran, on the radio. The news was all about Greta Thunberg covering Vogue and the issues with the fashion industry. Tyson Fury had become a father for the sixth time; a daughter called Athena with wife, Paris.Depressed about the effects of Brexit and the announced return of roaming charges in the EU by Vodafone, I needed a distraction; so what better way to celebrate National Book Lovers Day than to buy a new book, even if the date is a US observance (although I expect what with it being the 2nd Monday in August many Americans in Rhodes Island would have been celebrating Victory Day, commemorating the end of second world war due to Japan’s surrender)?Anyway, fingers crossed, (for luck, not in an attempt to implore the Christian god for protection), that the advice in this book improves my dreadful memory.

⭐This book is phenomenal and works on several levels.It’s an introduction to the kind of mind trickery that Derren specialises in. It introduces basic concepts of magic, teaching a simple disappearing coin trick and a card trick. It teaches a variety of mnemonic techniques, together with practical demonstration exercises, which prove to be extremely effective if you can be bothered to put them to the test. It moves on to discuss subjects such as hypnosis and NLP, the curing of phobias and pain control, placebos, and culminates with cold reading techniques, exposing the tricks of fake mediums and psychics and the dangers of bad thinking and snake oil merchants in general.It is, as I say, an introduction to these subjects, because you surely didn’t expect to learn all there is to know about these skills and deep topics from a single paperback, did you? But it’s also just about the BEST introduction you could get, exposing the woolly thinking and smoke screens that make a lot of the literature on such things of limited value at best. This book prepares you to think properly and clearly if you wish to study the ‘tricks of the mind’ further; also, how to train yourself to recognise the tricks levelled against you by others.On another level, it’s simply a delightful and hugely entertaining read, just like one of Derren’s shows. It’s an absolute pleasure to turn the pages and I often laughed out loud. Derren’s wit and sarcasm are often very subtle and I’m sure a lot of the most hilarious gags will go right over the heads of many people. I recall one section where he was railing against pretentiousness and then proceeded to explain what pretentious meant for people who might not know. Utter comedy gold, sir.And on a yet further level, if you really stop to think about what you’ve just read, all of the core principles are actually revealed here very clearly indeed. Just don’t expect to find them in bullet points.A charming, conversational, controversial and enormously satisfying read.

⭐I really enjoyed this book, though would give it 4.5 stars if possible. But firstly what I liked; very funnily written, very interesting in terms of sharing Derren’s personal history and interesting academic studies, and some good rants in there. I also loved the section on improving your memory, managed some great party tricks there. The only bits where I started to glaze over where when he was discussing the basics of hypnotism, as I didn’t buy the book hoping to learn how to do that. But if you do want that then that’s a plus for you, as there’s a small section that gives the basics, allowing you to hypnotise someone into being relaxed and maybe raising their arm in the air. Other than that a great read though, and I was really impressed by how funny it was.

⭐It’s not until you read his book you truly find out how smart Derren actually is. The book cover of him pulling a silly face gives of the impression the book is just a laugh, which it is not. Helpful tips, tricks and life hacks given away for free. Many topics are discussed and the book actually cleared up a lot of misconceptions I previously had. I actually felt quite liberated after reading parts of it. He gets to the point about certain topics and clears up a lot of BS in a blunt, but polite manner. Too much to get into really but well worth a read.You know how lot of rich and famous people say they read Napoleon Hill’s ‘Think And Grow Rich’ over and over again and that’s how they are so successful.. Well you know the feeling that leaves you? When you think you SHOULD read it over and over again because you think there is some magic force or formula attached to it? When deep down inside you just really cant be bothered reading it because it’s boring AF and you know it’s just absolute BS?.. Well this book here brought me back to the real world and helped me realize all these secret formula and self development books are a waste of time and money and pretty much all say the same thing which Derren referred to if I remember correctly as ‘an age old philosophy of just getting things done’.This is the book I will be reading over and over again in the following years to come. RECOMMEND!

⭐Known as a magician and performer, he writes a deceptively thoughtful, challenging book with wit and humour.The challenging chapters on memory provide exercises for the reader, some of which I can make work, others I cannot do. Derren puts a lot of store by memory as an important facet of intelligence. He describes the Linking System , which I have used successfully, the Logic System and the Numeric system which I cannot get head around.Moving on to hypnosis and suggestability, he really debunks Neuro Linguistic Programming which he has obviously studied quite carefully.He is really interesting and thought provoking on mirroring people and on telling lies.He then moves onto a psychological discussion on anti science, pseudo science, homeopathy and religion where his views chime with Richard Dawkins. But then there is an interesting section on the placebo affect. Whilst debunking alternative therapies, he accepts that the Placebo affect is real and valuable. He maintains that alternative therapists could contribute to conventional medicine if they discarded their unfounded claims and credited the placebo affect.One of the interesting side benefits of the book is his reading list with a short synopsis of the really good books he has read.

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