Derren Brown
Jul. 7th, 2013 11:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skull_bearerI went to see Derren Brown's new show Infamous. If you don't know who Derren Brown is, he's about the nearest thing real people can get to having Sherlock Holmes powers. He's a stage magician and mantalist. He is very cool. I'm not going to spoil his show because you have to see it to believe it and because he asked us not to. He's a nice guy, least I could do.
Anyway, i just want to put this out because I know some of you (like me) have life get on top of you and he gave out this very handy trick for putting problems in perspective:
When we envisage a problem we see it as a sort of film reel going at about eye level: it is on top of us, so that's why it feels so all-consuming. If, when this happenms, you picture it shrinking down and playing further down- about the level of your stomach, it suddenly seems very small and insignificant, and you feel huge and all-powerful.
It worked so well that when Derren got a guy on stage and got him to do this trick, he then put the guy's hand into a hidden box. The guy felt around and said what he was feeling was a spoon, a teaspoon.
Derren took his hand out, and showed the audience what was in the box. It was a ladle.
Anyway, i just want to put this out because I know some of you (like me) have life get on top of you and he gave out this very handy trick for putting problems in perspective:
When we envisage a problem we see it as a sort of film reel going at about eye level: it is on top of us, so that's why it feels so all-consuming. If, when this happenms, you picture it shrinking down and playing further down- about the level of your stomach, it suddenly seems very small and insignificant, and you feel huge and all-powerful.
It worked so well that when Derren got a guy on stage and got him to do this trick, he then put the guy's hand into a hidden box. The guy felt around and said what he was feeling was a spoon, a teaspoon.
Derren took his hand out, and showed the audience what was in the box. It was a ladle.