NLP in action: Darren Brown at the dog track

[midnight rambler]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II_-QcW4Q4I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II_-QcW4Q4I

[lapis]

Thanks for posting this; I've never seen NLP in action. It's like...instant brainwashing. Disturbing. Is there any way to guard against people using these techniques on us?

[Golden]

Derren Brown NLP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befugtgikMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befugtgikMg
Uploaded by jregester on Sep 20, 2006
Derren Brown uses NLP to influence Simon Pegg's selection of a gift.

Insert evil laugh here

[sirgonzo420]

Thanks for posting this; I've never seen NLP in action. It's like...instant brainwashing. Disturbing. Is there any way to guard against people using these techniques on us?

Read up about it and you can be familiar with the techniques, in order to better recognize them.

[mamboni]

When I was a teenager working the stand at Nathan's in Coney Island, a well dressed black dude steps up to buy two corn on the cobs. Back then, the price was around $1.30 for two. He hands me a $5 bill and just as I am giving him change he says to hold on, let me give you this and hands me a ten. He was pulling a con and I knew if I played along he'd wind up with the corn and more money then he came with. In this job, if the register came in short, I made up the difference. So, I knew I couldn't keep up with this huckster. I stopped and repeated "$1.30 for the dogs. Give me one bill and one bill only and I'll make change!"

I'm sure all of us are vulnurable to NLP to varying degrees. It's really a question of staying alert and frankly, being a little paranoid and suspicious all the time. Growing up in New York as a kid taught me that if you are not alert and thinking all the time, as if in a human jungle filled with perils, you will be victimized. So to this day, I am always on the laert for scam artists. That dog race ticket trick would not have worked on me - I trust no one, ever. And I am always on the look out for confidence guys.

P.S. I generally avoided looking customers in the eyes - this is very dangerous as your attention is grabbed if only briefly. I always watched the customer's hands and body language primarily.

LOL - it's sort of like...spotting trolls at GSUS.;D