Author: Will Williams
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Derren Brown: Enigma Review and Blog
IF YOU’VE SEEN THE SHOW then please leave your analysis, ideas, observations, reviews etc in the forum / blog bit below, ESPECIALLY if you were chosen for anything!! THE BELOW COMMENTS CONTAIN SPOILERS so please don’t read them unless you enjoy indulging in the fun of trying to analyse/figure out the tricks. SERIOUSLY! After a…
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Lie To Me
Blessed are Fox Broadcasting for knocking out another belter of a show. Lie to Me stars Tim Roth (Mr Orange in Reservoir Dogs, an excellent British actor) and follows the endlessly interesting day job of an expert in body language and lie detection. Puzzles are solved in a format similar to CSI, your first impressions…
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Magic of Mental Movies
Dr Neil Cox of Exeter County Chiropractic did a great talk on 19th March called ‘Think Well’ as part of a series on being more aware of the body, mind and nutrition for better health. I was grateful to contribute a part about how our minds influence our states, focusing on the mental movies of…
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Strangers To Ourselves – The Adaptive Unconscious
I am reading a good book at the moment called “Strangers to Ourselves” by Tim Wilson. Personality theory has normally focused on how to measure ‘personality’, with predictability of behaviour being the only really output of any research results (and the results were never particularly strong in that respect because personalities are more dynamic than…
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Would you have noticed?
One morning, a casual looking guy pulls out a violin and starts busking to people emerging from a tube station to go to work. Six classical pieces and 43 minutes later, over 1000 people had passed. Would you have stopped and listened? Probably not – who does? The difference here is that the busker was…
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The One Thing That Makes The Difference
What makes a person successful? No – its not about intelligence, knowledge, skills or who you know. Its something very simple that you can start doing immediately…
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How Well Do You Really Know People?
A friend yesterday said how she’d had a tough time Christmas shopping that afternoon. The problem wasn’t so much the endless queues, tacky shit, people pushing and shoving or falling over themselves trying to get a 20% discounted hairdryer in Tesco for cousin Charlotte, no, it was something far darker and sinister. “I find it…