Apollo Robbins:The Art of Misdirection
I have watched this a couple of months ago and
thought it was a very interesting way of thinking. Apollo’s philosophy on
the mind is to create a distraction in order to do something else right in
front of a person and not even realize it. The topic of this
presentation is that if you could control one's attention how would you use
that power. His visual effects were simply amazing and eye popping.
He first used a diagram of what he thought of a person attention.
He explained it as a security system and how he would distract it.
A simple recollection of memories would take a person’s security system
and have it turn its back so there is a slight distraction. There after
he brought up a guest and physically performed his example on a person.
He took the man’s watch, money, food, and a few personal items from his
pockets. It was a very effective presentation and caught my attention
from the beginning. Humor was a large part of Apollo’s presentation and
he used it very well. The pacing was a little fast but for what he was
explaining, he went very accordingly. There was a path through his
presentation and even got us thinking from the beginning to the end. I
was very engaged and and inspired. He got me thinking of how we look at
only things we want to see but there are many other things right in front of us
that we don’t notice. I have been emphatic about this presentation ever
since i saw it. There are many points that he goes through and make you
think about. Our attention span nowadays are so short we can even
remember things that we have just looked at. I feel that if we were more
attentive, there would be more we can open up to. If we could control
someones attention, how would we use that power.
