Given that Mystery was a magician, he used a lot of mentalism in his routines.
The easiest one was 3's and 7s
"do you believe in mind reading/esp/people have a connection"
"let's try something"
Q1- "think of a number between 1 and 4"
Are you thinking 3?
Okay
Q2 - how about this one, think of a number between 1 and 10
Are you thinking 7?
(3's and 7's are the most common #'s thought of)
@ that point, I usually go into it like this
If you guess 0 out of 2, "I guess mind reading doesn't work"
You get 1 out of 2, "maybe we' have a connection"
You get both, "we definitely have a connection"
Less "gimmicky" comes from understanding conversation and how people's minds work.
*look her up and down*
"You know what the say about a woman with big feet"
*pause*
*you look down at her shoes*
"What?""
"they buy big shoes...wait what did you think I was going to say"
9 times out of 10 she thinks you were going to get sexual, but you didn't. I usually follow it up with her being a perv, freak, creepy or a bad girl.
I'm pretty decent at looking like i'm aghast, and then slowly letting it crack that I'm not aghast, that I'm laughing at/with her.
This concept of letting your audience fill in the gap is the basis of a lot of jokes, gossips, intrigues, and magic tricks.
Very simple minded dudes will try these techniques to get the girl to think of dick, sex, et cetera. But that's typically telegraphing a whole lot more than you need to. It's not like you're going to make a chick subliminally think about sex and she jumps on your dick.
That whole Heywood JaBlowmie NLP stuff is ridiculously hard to pull off.
WIA
The easiest one was 3's and 7s
"do you believe in mind reading/esp/people have a connection"
"let's try something"
Q1- "think of a number between 1 and 4"
Are you thinking 3?
Okay
Q2 - how about this one, think of a number between 1 and 10
Are you thinking 7?
(3's and 7's are the most common #'s thought of)
@ that point, I usually go into it like this
If you guess 0 out of 2, "I guess mind reading doesn't work"
You get 1 out of 2, "maybe we' have a connection"
You get both, "we definitely have a connection"
Less "gimmicky" comes from understanding conversation and how people's minds work.
*look her up and down*
"You know what the say about a woman with big feet"
*pause*
*you look down at her shoes*
"What?""
"they buy big shoes...wait what did you think I was going to say"
9 times out of 10 she thinks you were going to get sexual, but you didn't. I usually follow it up with her being a perv, freak, creepy or a bad girl.
I'm pretty decent at looking like i'm aghast, and then slowly letting it crack that I'm not aghast, that I'm laughing at/with her.
This concept of letting your audience fill in the gap is the basis of a lot of jokes, gossips, intrigues, and magic tricks.
Very simple minded dudes will try these techniques to get the girl to think of dick, sex, et cetera. But that's typically telegraphing a whole lot more than you need to. It's not like you're going to make a chick subliminally think about sex and she jumps on your dick.
That whole Heywood JaBlowmie NLP stuff is ridiculously hard to pull off.
WIA
Quote: (11-12-2014 09:42 PM)Catch 22 Wrote:
Answer the first two questions out loud. Then, blurt out the first thing that comes to mind for question 3.
1. What continent is Kenya in?
2. What are the two opposing colors in the game of chess?
3. Name any animal.
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When asked to name an animal out of the blue, less than 1 percent of people will answer zebra. But roughly 20 percent of people answer zebra to sentence 3, and about 50 percent respond with an animal from Africa.
In other words, by directing your attention to Africa and the colors black and white, it is possible to manipulate your answer. As with comedy routines, this example offers two crucial insights about memory and the human mind that will be recurring themes in this book. First, knowledge is stored in an associative manner: related concepts (zebra/Africa, kilometers/miles) are linked to each other. Second, thinking of one concept somehow "spreads" to other related concepts, making them more likely to be recalled. Together, both these facts explain why thinking of Africa makes it more likely that "zebra" will pop into mind if you are next asked to think of any animal. This unconscious and automatic phenomenon is known as priming. And as one psychologist has put it "priming affects everything we do from the time we wake up until the time we go back to sleep; even then it may affect our dreams."
How can we take advantage of this mind trap?