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Derren was horn in UTI in Crayon, Teas Affe irs — his mother was ie Dewon al One Ue: 8 precucions ad puzating aly hl he Heed to yi. oster obsessive habits andl once set ire to a ueighbour's boat by accident, Derren went on fo study fa and ‘German at Bristol University an! eli love with the cg. This was atime where: marriage beuwcem aman an ely was sll Gowned ‘up, s'rather Ui face pbc eviiun, Derren decid just to live Iburefurever instead, During this dine be began to perform magic Jnbbaes and restaurants, ancl gave oocastonal hypnosis shows. Then in 1990 he wae asked by Channel 4 ta pk a mandeating pre gramme together fr eles, which becarne Derven Brown: Mint Contra, TL was ae imanesdane saves ani gained Dersen a voct unudergrunnd Lixdos which le described 9 not enol ‘Mind Controls 2 and 3 folesred and then, in Oewher 2018, Derren caused an international forare by playiny Rasa Ructle lve un television. Vhs tired noloredy widh Une puble and a big apartmentin Tandon, ‘Brisa ean shove ise he sale, Further sp ale have allowed including Derrew Brown: The Séanoe which sss Ube mosLcontolained ahout sown the history of telesiion. Hes receives several leters of complaint a wre fram payehies and Christians, He fs sensitiv fo ceeryome's ubjetions bul Rauws Teas the Jaker grap wi forgive bi, Derreu’s worklual heeps him exhausted and ievitable riya weeks u year sad he continues co live in Landon with a large co! lection of taxidermy and 2 fatale parrot. Tle spends any free sweeten painting and Hikes lr reco ils TRICKS OF THE MIND DERREN BROWN ‘To Mum, Dl and Bro CONTENTS ACoin Thick ACant rick erveoton is Foersting “Tricks wi Sazeestion Th Pret Ssloneading ‘Stating Pointe “The Linking Sytern os of he Linbing Stee The Lou Sen Memory Palaces The Pog System Remembering Ling Nemo temrinng 4 Dc Card Manarsing Fohit Remembezing Names “The impartancr of Rrvewing Alief ior ae Hye Seating Coique Eypoate Phenosneaa Painters Sugeno Hiacnatione ow fo Lypuctize Tor Pager Tangucgr Phveare Ba Sabiat Desig oyna Sages Prev Leite Prong Wh By a Tn fh ie? “Too for Perna Change Targeted Rapport api ate Peters thabia Cure Salonen ane fre Te We Pret Convio un Slide Learning te Head Poople Spoting Lies ad Civounay Tels _Exebtishing a ascne ay heen of races Comorian Tht Yi Arty Bpws of Traisteess Ticking Trp Science a elim Worry About Seenee ‘alia the Supernatural nd Bocude-Sicave ‘Confirmation Bias: Lacking for What We Roose Privaardinary Coincidences and Prpchic Phone Cle Anecdoiee ond Fact Swbecttous Painding Sls native Meine The Plcvba Apex ha Appeal of the Imaginary Medioms, yeh od Claslaans Cité acing Morn Beso of Catena Tock, Honest Poise AND QUOTED PADEHS PREFACE "W0TVEPAPERBASK ETI ‘Wateorneto the offical paperback edition ofthis book, Perhaps, the toe. you prefer a handy. pocket-sized wall-around serainn ta the cumbersome monolith tarqured hy thase ostantaions types wih Fichiy tornishee! 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Favouring the compact hand ue forw, whic eibressly supports fe imaye of bibvpbic bul penuiles anew tat you have eome: (o culivae, you have most Ukely held out for this younger, sexier ‘nodel, wich, lean aasurr you, contains every single: wurd of Ue original The sendemens have buen preserved in Dneie original ore, and the entire index bax been alphubedzed Jor easy ‘A few claunges have crept ia: Tas constantly revived and ose jnyel co ecebve communications from pearke eager fo pint eal perceived mictkes contzined in the hardback incaruation uf this volume, Mast of these missives were charles uals {rom barely fiers curcenpundents whi brlliaatly missed the point of the connlernzsve probability problems given in Patt Si. ox who took rebrage to the (correct) solition to the Monly Hall problean ddescebed there, Others were mire inleresting: owe chap eight ened re fe the fact that the merical semen", 2,3 4, 5,654 ispconartomately popular une chusea hy those playing the Lotery, saul la fact enas evea be the mse popalarchoiee. Tad The point in this book chat this sequence wns likely Wy win as any other artiewar seqwence thal appeared wore eunlum. aud added that surely a one would ever why die staight run as just lnoked lke they wouldn't stand a hope in hel. note now that any presumsor toras out to be powell andl grotesquely wrong. Most ikely iis a smug aroup of perickely nedas swe a eysell wh play Those umbers and then tll creryone they du su whenever the subject of gambling arises, precisely to make die same point about probably. Since the tardback book was publishes, much iterate has also ‘servi upon the subject of atom: undonibtedly Richard Dawkins? ‘very public platform has rained the consciousness ue intended, Not ‘suprisingly, 4 reason aguiasl whut bias been coed ‘atheist fmol bas aise in ts wale, Natwally any form af un linrenzaisn lends 6 be 4 prety ugly thing. As some of this back clegls with ny owen dibs, | thong! Tight lake this precursury ‘epnortamity In reiterate Ube pi Usa nol Leleving in something Is notin se belie ora philosupt: its the ‘any atthe end that leat eause rouble, Both atheists and believers cam he: arroe gant and witless as each other ia rusted dette, and people ay choose strong and unsnulogetic words Wy cake awareness aa agenda. Bur dpi the naruacalig ii il a fle poinc tba © aot ‘elie iu Gud is ae snore wie ise than to pot believe fa the ‘Loch Neos Monster, Poseidan, of auything else one enight pers aly consider fofetched, Bevond! that, there is only how yw ctuose te express vourset hat is all think: L hope youl eny this ity. Dendy Ute _macaber ant iCyeu spol any misrakes, be sure C9 vte them all cut Jn an email. printf out, fold fe up and pop it up your bower, PREFACE Some tne lst spring UboughtL sro visit Her Majesty's Fish in the aquarivn, which sits Denealh the geutty diseppointing Can tye ant far from our production offices, At he fine 1 had just ad a Fihviank insaled at home aud as ooking for sextuousters with vrhich lw Gli, Teotacled, mukélinbed, sithering ereotires which ace entively at home only when atizeling submarines or James “Mason wore what Twas aller, aul Ihe thought af sisting place ‘har sich Grings a giant octopodes ff nation that Microsolis ant only vadiaypy wil the correct ploral, but also allows eetpi. wie Lieve of yeu who defighe in anmuying ousers will now is In Sect vweong) right glare at me Unrouyt loughened ane confusing fociteed glass struck me as far too exciting tor worls. Asi warned cont, Zane Twelve of Use Aguaiu was iksomfy short an verte ‘brates uf any sort, and the highlight ofthe allernuon proved tobe Touhiag al a eucemous American Lady sane against the glaas Sram the opposite window of the stark vank vas, taroghout my lone of largely similar fish, doing my best to rexd thi bie plaques next to each tank, which told ane and ‘other curious visitors the name, teeing habile and suusical tastes of ‘shatcwr was diving, swimming or Daating upsideduvn inside Abu halfray though Unis abricated sublerrineaes bbysinth, my conscious mind suddenty laehed onto an oddigs | realized that ‘underneath the desceiptians ofthe varius natant ichthyeiels there ‘asa transltinn of wat I presumed tobe Ibe sare information jos Braille Fur x wbile a seemed guile matral, and Une 1 eauyht ngself wondering: on average, how anany blind people a year ist the London Aquat? Nowe [ dent wish to sound insensitive, bet | Imagine the amber mat be negligible Tsvuuld welewine any annivers fin bind peuple tw a couple af questions That have Beem bugging eae: since. Fiesty, how do. you Snow soheve the Braite sign i located? This must be relatively saraightforward ia soch things 49 fits, bot shat aout in an afer ferment? TF none in xin tele, Bw docs cms fined Tale instructions for the ure of uber Fun ta saup dispensers ar toilel Mushes? That sounds ike an uapleasunl and even uriyuienic seacch to be undertaking whie bumping around somewhere near Didcot Parkseay, Myr spcand concn, clearly, ie fa blind visitor Joond the Braille sign io the Aquarium, af what earthy nse vould id We? Aside froma pussible Neving suk ofa psig singeay i the touchiuy poo! the London Aquariuut seems (@ be an expert ence il sited to sisters with severe visual challenges It cccurce] tor me that the Irsille signs, i loeated, would at hest provide the ‘tvs wl nn: ake wi him frm his allermonm em ais of Bish, A Dist of ih ‘Upon Ieaving the Aquarium, Doth cake aback by the eale route ‘through WiePnnald's and sil disappainted by the poor shaw nthe ‘squid fron, Tens stopped by a youn chap who wanted to sav hello and aseruea fess questions about whut | de, We chatted (ora while, and then be asked ifthere wae ok available Unt cou cae hina ‘more about the various sKiIs { employ to envertain and sexually couse the Fewing tow. New Tae been asked by nay f you. somerimes with a politeuuss lat reflects favourably upon your onhringg but all io Eeequeauty with 4 rudeness an! an iy stare That makes ane want to hacia Your children, if here i saci a bouk lat can throw some Tight on che fascinating and Ligbly-pald areas that inform my wmoiiswardovinsing and .nassively exjoyable body of work. You hull 1 your hands. ori dhe ease of som af you yur leet, Une ansiver thal question, I hate tried ta eoser all my cain areas of ierest it relation to my shows, bring thera all gether lize navy children and bpndlle Uns inlu a hygienic and wtob- ‘rusive baokeke lorral thal. can be inserted quite comfortably to silos the reacer to conidently rollersate or pay tennis Cer the years have met mare people during the ineltble ais ug Ua overs when Leave my apartment and dart accoss the sree to buy’ bresd or a bag af mil, just lke ordinary bloody people. Krom listening earcfly 10 you sen you tl, Lean tell thal some of you are Brita aud ity, penple | wuld happily shi aroma may horn, shhereas olkers of you seule socen to require woiexsional vace, Many of Fon approwch what T du with a dove of ‘melligent scepticiem and sensu of fa: bers uf you mnt read the Daily Mail, ve with anure than Unee cats or regard Trista as seri josraaison, OF course. this second aroup rencallyincades hase peramaeally oucraged people who write Iellers of complet lu swwspapers and broadcasters of television sows ~ a particular anaduess Mat leaves me dumbstruck, Dumbsieuck tat is, not only Dy the madness tel, but also by the del that such people are oem ‘encouraged Un call in bso vote in television or ean does ea ceorplesity, and are created az a vit wice of democracy. Uninfortaed strong opinions ~ ane J purteularly include religious fines, which for some reason yet spuval Ireatment ae of enorse cece chister of prejudices and no more appropriate than «nin, yours urauyune ese’: areun tapes we dow t wnderstand as wor lest as my opinious ou hockey, Noel Edmonds or rimming. So, taking on boavd the wide ange of people wiho might watch ray shows, Thave fied 10 pitch this hook to the intelligent reader with a Taya Soterest in Ubiags ceindrelaied, Sorue of Duss ‘rings Tivel passionately about and others are drier subjects just offer any thoughts ar the level at which they occur in my enormous round bearded head. The subjects covered are diverse, and some area File: mare neater in tome than thors. Kall, Ths: ejeted Ube optinn of writing an anacanisally ight iucroduction to eeiting mind Jats. Which would make for eosy reading aad quick ‘wrKing but would undoubtedty be mnisteading, and instead incorpo rtrd level ot seepticiam where I tel impart. 'Thi enone froma a desioe bv make the coments af the back: as warthwhike aud mpalronidng as possible Cgalrouiciy’, of vurse, means ‘to talk down te people. | da hn that yn ara inepred fo dele turcher ino one or more bf Use areas to whic this ole wl intrduce yom f no, shold vake au excell ad inexpensive bathtoy far yin least favourile nila, woud Jove tu fel dat his book can give you ifuraaiom {you can appl practically or se a8 springboard for furtive useful server. That wall he nam. Fauld hare yon to beve with just sais af ich “ae Paaeea ttt shed Abed rnd tle pects be pened iris eadieeit ie. F ad Ss Fy ry ‘$ de BT Ox» as yi ¥ Gites of the Wtioul DISILLUSIONMENT :<: eae ab SORES F ¥ ugeceaggeo a as Speake ma naar age sige Sieete sre scm isc ce a -
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