Darren Brown is arguably a legendary figure, a graduate of law and German, but he is obsessed with the exploration of human consciousness.
He is known nationally for streaming a roulette game live.
Since then, his crazy behavior has continued, in 2009, he broadcast lottery predictions live, and accurately predicted the results, and thus became on the blacklist of welfare lottery institutions, and was forever rejected by such institutions.
Turn ordinary people into murderers in seventy-two hours.
People call him a lot, psychological researchers, magicians, but he calls himself a magician of the mind,
Although he is known for his experiments with human nature, he is more recognized in the field of magic. Magician Liu Qian once went to see Darren Brown's magic show. It can be seen that its position in the field of magic.
As Darren Brown's experiments became more and more crazy, he attracted more attention.
People have also questioned his performances, especially the Russian roulette game that made him famous in the first world war.
Does Darren Brown really have such magical powers to manipulate people's minds?
To prove my guess, I specifically watched darren Brown's thrilling livestream.
First, the prediction that seems magical has been screened and tested.
Briefly introduce this experiment, roulette game is also a gamble, but other gambling to money, this gambling is fatal, so it is banned by many countries, and it is not recommended that everyone imitate it here.
A brief introduction to the rules, a person loads a bullet and does not let the person who fired the gun see, and Darren Brown needs to guess exactly where the bullet is, otherwise he will have to shoot himself.
After that, the most important thing is to choose the person who loads the bullet. And this candidate is the key to the success of the experiment, oh no, the node of life and death.
Darren Brown recruits gamers through the show.
After a lot of screening, 100 people from 12,000 people were selected to participate in the live selection of the roulette game.
This screening step is the key to the magic of the mind, and the key to a series of human experiments that he later made.
Overall, Darren Brown's purpose in selecting people is to choose people who are obedient, obedient and controlling, have no heart, and do not know how to disguise. Take a look at his selection method.
The first step in screening is the experiment of seat selection
After announcing the rules off the court, Darren Brown told the candidates to let them in and sit in a chair.
People who do not know the truth, some are eager, some are leisurely, but they do not know that 100 people have only prepared 90 seats.
Darren Brown and others took their seats and announced that those without seats were too lazy and simply eliminated.
He looked at the people in the seats again and continued to announce the elimination list, and the people in the last row were humble and nervous, and were eliminated.
The people in the first row, too eager, were directly eliminated.
30 people were eliminated in this link. This knockout game is clearly about eliminating the extreme personality. Keep people who look more mundane and ordinary.
Second screening
Darren Brown asked the rest to take their chairs and sit in three rows by the window in three minutes. After they sat down, Darren Brown seemed to communicate with the two men with ease. The two seats are next to each other, one holding his arms looks nervous, and the other is very casual and bold,
Darren Brown, in a joking tone, said that he was going to eliminate the two, but quickly changed the subject to joking, and the people around him laughed.
He selected ten men from them and seated them in the opposite seat.
Then Darren Brown announced another rule.
This time he gave the candidates the opportunity to choose between them and go to the opposite seat or stay in their original seats.
And emphasize that there are only 35 seats on the opposite side, and the elimination rules have already been written in an envelope, is it to eliminate the people who sit on the opposite side, or to eliminate the people who sit still?
During this time, Darren Brown made a big statement that I would not eliminate the people who sat in the past.
But people were still hesitant, and one of the little brothers dressed in red obviously arrived at the opposite side, but returned to the original seat before the time was up.
Sure enough, Darren Brown weeded out those who didn't sit across the street as he asked.
He also acknowledges that this is an obedience experiment, and that the people he needs to look for are obedient, easily influenced by others.
Third level screening
After the above two rounds of screening, Darren Brown has learned more about the candidates. Next they came to a studio, where Darren Brown asked the candidate to paint a human face that was large, clear, and distinctive.
After everyone was done, he chose the bearded youth sitting in the last row and asked him to leave his own paintings, and the paintings of others were passed and screened.
Through portraiture, Darren Brown guesses the inner state of each person, eliminating people who seem too complex and extreme in his view. And at the end, he painted the same painting as the bearded guy he had named. Because he had already guessed that some narcissistic brother would paint his own portrait.
At this point in the experiment, Darren Brown seemed to have a candidate in mind, and the bearded brother was one of them.
Fourth level screening
Darren Brown grouped the people who remained after the eliminators left, and after discussion, one of the three decided to stay one person, and the two voted to choose the one who was eliminated.
Only five people qualified for this round, and when the eliminators selected by each group all stood up, a miracle happened. Darren Brown actually predicted that the five men would be eliminated by the group.
So the plot reversed, leaving behind the five people who should have been eliminated and dismissing the others.
It turned out that he already had a candidate in mind, but through further tests, to judge whether the behavior of these five people was in line with his expectations. So he arranged these 5 people into different groups. Sure enough, the people who were eliminated in each group were the 5 people he chose.
He also made clear the reason for this selection, the person with deep intentions will obviously increase his danger, and the two people discussing the elimination of the other person is obviously a trick.
From the selection of the above four levels, it can be seen that Darren Brown chooses people who are obedient, obedient, controllable, and have no intentions. Because this type of person is easier to read and easier to control.
After that, Darren Brown began to get along with the five candidates, and they went to shooting training together.
Fifth level screening
After Darren Brown spent some time with the five candidates, Darren Brown knew them well enough. It's just that he's not at ease yet, after all, roulette is too dangerous.
Darren Brown led them to a red room with chairs of different colors.
Darren Brown had them play an antonym solitaire, and the person who hesitated to repeat or couldn't pick up the conversation sat aside. It seems to be the ability to react, but in fact, the focus is on seat selection.
There were six chairs in the room, including Darren Brown himself, who managed to predict the seats the five men would choose.
They were shocked when Darren Brown asked the candidates to undo the labels with their names written under their seats, impressed by Darren Brown's cleverness, because they themselves did not notice their preferences. One of them also said he didn't want Darren Brown anymore. Really in danger.
Sixth level screening
Approaching the date of the live broadcast, Darren Brown was already familiar with the candidates, and in order to ease everyone's nervous mood, Darren Brown took them to dinner.
A small game was played during the banquet, darren Brown went behind his back, let the other five people pass the bottle cap, completed within the allotted time, and then Dallen Brown guessed whose hands the bottle cap was in.
This time, Darren Brown won again, not only did he accurately guess the result, but even everyone's ideas and relationships with each other were the same as the actual situation.
After this meal, everyone admired him even more.
Last screening
In the final screening before the livestream began, Darren Brown needed to finally choose one of these five people to play with him.
Darren Brown created an atmosphere of tension and asked the five candidates what words were in their minds at the moment.
Darren Brown looked at them and wrote down his guess, in which two were guessed with complete accuracy, and one guessed a synonym.
He weeded out the candidates who despised everything, as well as a vulnerable personality, and two people under high pressure that Darren Brown could not predict.
In the end, a man full of fear and read by Darren Brown was left behind.
At this point, the most critical part of the game is over. Because the result is known to everyone.
Many people questioned the authenticity of this live broadcast, saying that the people selected in the end were all Trust, and even if it was Toto, who could guarantee that at such a critical moment, he was panicked, a nervous mistake, and Darren Brown would have to pay a painful price.
And in the final stages, Darren Brown was obviously very nervous. In a later interview, he said his legs were shaking.
Psychic magic may seem magical, but once deconstructed, it will be found that each step is a use of simple common sense.
After such obedience experiments, and relatively long-term contact, it is natural to make predictions about a person's behavior.
Of course, there is always a complicated side to human nature, which can be predicted one moment, but the next moment will change, so the risk of Darren Brown's experiment is still extremely high.
It was also the key to his fame in world war I.