Relentless Curiosity : Lior Suchard at TEDxYouth@Chanakyapuri

Wow why everybody looks so scared so before we start before I tell you who I am and what I'm doing here you can do a little quick quick test you you're standing you're sitting right next to the microphone can you stand up next to the microphone yeah and you can you can you say out loud to the microphone your first name Jay you are correct Jay it's like a JY I I so Jay like this yeah okay um can you think you can take the microphone I'm just going to write a little message for you before we start this program and okay Jay if I would ask you right now to tell us a two-digit number what would you say can you say something 5050 just Y just random it I wrote you Jay will say 50 can you see this Jay Jay will say 50 is it very seriously now Jake the question is why did Jay say 50 did I influence your mind ray do you think of a number then you want to change your mind to 50 Dilla second you immediately at 50 so did i influence your mind maybe I read your mind maybe it's the $100 he got before the show no there's nothing like that you can sit down give him a big one applause let's start let's let's start to have some fun aim my name is Leo sue short I'm a Mentalist I'm going to explain to you what's a Mentalist now but we'll play a little bit with between you and just gonna go every time I go into audiences everybody goes like no don't use me please it's very important so it'll be nice let's just do something crazy I will go to the cheap seats okay over there so it's easier for you to see don't be scared don't it's gonna do for fun let's go you know what I would ask all of your question I know that you all who is here at 14 years old raise your hand 14 14 yeah 15 16 17 okay I won 17 a Why ask seventeen wealth you also do you remember you had a boyfriend by the way no III married but isn't name and do you remember the name of your first love like first crash cross guy lyrics yeah you know do not have to tell me because this is who who remembers the first crush first love I think the kid doesn't know because it haven't happened yet right but but yours is a dad and mom but you remember yours yes you what is your name Alex can you join me on the stage give it Alex a big one of applause Alex come over here for a second really we're gonna play some okay we're gonna do some some tricks on your mind Alex so come over here stand next to the microphone I think this will be your Heights come over here and say hello hello good day like this okay before we do this test Alex are you afraid of me I never ready for then saying hi okay but till you're afraid of me your fear me little bit soon it will be more no or here's the test so I was talking about first love you are seventeen you said so the first love was about what age well solo nuttin okay now let me ask you a question and this is a very Polaroid for the audience and did you tell me the name of your first love no no and another question did you whisper the name in my ear before the show no no no it did I pay you lots of lots of money to say no all the time not yet not yet I tried maybe it will work no but I want to make something clear this is a fair experiment correct we didn't set it up on the deck not now is there anybody here is about a hundred some heart and fifty people over here does anybody here knows the name of your first love my brother maybe where's your brother with your brother do you know no he doesn't know he does it up so here's the he does the experiment Alex here's the thing I'm gonna write it over here and I want you to say to the microphone and repeat what I tell you right now okay say Li or they are Li or you don't have a chance you don't have a chance to guess my first love - yes my first love it's more likely to crush nose up in women Kanna okay you are going to be in shock you don't have to say that by the way I'm just telling them okay so um this is very experiment are you ready you were 12 years old No one second one second one second because people think that mine Winnick is something very very easy to do it's very very difficult and it's not that I here might this psychological thing we know it's a can you think of the number of letters in your name don't say just think oh there you go five yes I got / - do you believe in coincidence hmm coincidence - it does not prove causality look at you I took statistics also one of those okay okay so is there any way in the world that anybody here could tell me the name yes or no I don't think so okay close your eyes close your eyes okay I'm just going to go and do it very fast if I if I make this right a the audience will start uploading spontaneously make sure it spontaneous okay so I'm just going to make sure it's fair you were 12 years old Alex yeah how do you feel can open your eyes right now you feel okay hmm little nervous I I feel you I feel you but this is a fair experiment correct Alex yes can you tell them for the first time you were 12 years old what was the name of your first love first wash tell the meaning Irene I wrote are you all right thank you Alex you can go back to the street giving on a blood and okay so we're gonna put this here and Alex Alex give him a glass of water do you want do you want to a phone number okay so uh raise your hands if you want me to tell you how I did that hundred percent how represent even the people outside are raising their hand right now and okay and that's what we call curiosity right you see something unbelievable you see something amazing and you want to know who it's done you really want to know how it's done now I'm also curious but in a little different way what we call here relentless curiosity I am a Mentalist I'm a mind reader this means that I'm not going to tell you exactly what I do but let's just say like I know how the mind works I know how to are you behave I know how you think and I know how to manipulate your minds a little bit and during the performance here there's a lecture you can ask me any question you want except how did you do it so um what is a Mentalist read minds influence people know things relentless curiosity the reason why I have let this curiosity is because that nobody teaches what I do you can learn you cannot learn this in school University there's no a PhD in mind reading although I think it would be amazing it'll be PhD in my drink but there's no all I was doing I learned by myself I learned to do it I learned to practice I plug is it more and more and more and more and the stuff that I'm expert I don't known but you know it's important to learn University it's important to to learn and develop your skills but everything we learn I have a lot of a professors friends doctor friends but everything that we'll learn it just that's why I believe it's a little little bit little bit of our unused potential of the brain ok there's so many things we could do with the mind if you've seen lots of lots of lectures and we'll talk about in a second all the things we learn it's really really really a small part of what I do now let's talk about positive thinking because I was invited here for Ted to talk about power of the mind and positive thinking now power of the mind is the easy part I just saw some cool tricks el peligro ah and and that's it but speaking of positive thinking it's a little difficult to explain this because everyone looks at it in a different way and I really think that most people 90% of the people look at it in a very wrong way wrong way and I tell you why we look in it in a non rational way okay everybody knows positive thinking you heard about it positive think positive think positive it's very important but everybody knows it's important but not nobody does anything with it the best example I know is imagine a doctor a surgeon who you know helps to cure some money from cancer and then they finish the surgery they go outside they smoke right I mean they know it's bad for them they just did the whole thing about somebody who smoked so why would they do it why why why do they keep doing all this stuff for me positive thinking is not what I explained you what is the police thinking is a state of mind that makes you do the things that you want to do and make you prepare for the things that you want to accomplish in life okay in a few minutes I will explain to you something very very cool which will be I at the beginning the presentation you said reading the mind like reading a newspaper I brought some newspapers here to read and the next test that we're going to do in a few minutes I believe that the probability probability to guess a word that will be chosen from these newspapers will be sorry about the handwriting will be three million one hundred thousand and thirty one you'll know why I'm doing like this 730 let's do it like this 8 okay and you'll know why in a second why is three million one hundred thirty one thousand seven and thirty eight will be the probability to get something from over there and I will explain how I do it so instead of mine how can I teach you to be in this stead of mine of positive thinking okay let's see our brain I can talk so much about our brain our brain is an amazing amazing machine incredible machine but there are very very way a lot of ways to manipulate it to trick it and if we know how to trick it and manipulate it why don't we manipulate it for good okay we all know that reality well I know if you know reality creates a manipulation in the brain I'll give you the perfect example are you ready everyone if you have something in your hand just put it on the floor we're gonna do an experiment with everyone let's let me show you how we can manipulate your mind okay here's a cool trick I want you to both of you to hold your hands like this all of you all of you all of you ladies perfect the answer okay okay now one of your hands the right hand by the way this is the right hand okay the right hand turned over like this yes perfect so we have one hand like this one like this now I know it's gonna be difficult what I'm gonna tell you right now but close your eyes don't look at me you're cheating don't look at me keep keep imagine now use your imagination very important use your imagination I want you to imagine that you're in your right hand there's a bag of stones pretty heavy stones and I wanted to imagine your left hand imagine that I'm that there's tie like a little rope tied to a big big bouquet of balloon balloons with helium you know the ones that flies up to the helium and suddenly I add another balloon and another balloon to your left hand more balloons more balloons and you can feel our slowly your hands are going up your left hand are going up while your right hand I feeling stones more more stones and more and more stones and keep thinking about it and believe in it and imagine it and see it's happening so more stones to your right hand and you will feel it your writing is sinking down slowly more and more while your left hand is going up more and more and more keep your eyes closed and when I tell you to open your eyes right now you will see something amazing look at your hands ah pretty cool huh did you feel you see you really went like this you put a lot of stones over there right it's so our this is this is how you can manipulate your brain very very easily so I told you that that that reality ok reality can create thoughts we think according to what happening in reality so will thoughts create reality this is the interesting thing and the answer is yes thoughts create reality so if you think positive good things will happen to us and I will explain why in a second something happened to me at the age 21 I've always been a performer I'm a performer artist on a stage performer I'm not a lecturer I don't know how to lecture that's why I always start to think what I'm going to tell you exactly when I was 21 I was performing I was doing shows for a little bit of corporate events conventions 100 people maybe 300 people some in private houses private events sanity I got a phone call from someone highly or are we doing a convention in South Africa 4000 people big stage screens I'm going like 4000 people I just did a show for 60 people how the hell I'm going to do a show for 4000 people but yeah sure no problem hey I will do it Abu and after we finish the conversation I said to myself are you crazy what what what what what why did you say yesterday's you're not you're not prepared what what do you do it then you figure out to me I am es man I always say yes I say yes then I face the challenges oh really and it's really sharpened that the life as I know it right now because after I said no no problem and I thought to myself what do I do how will I do it I was figuring out a way how can I make this work okay even today I mean I I don't know how to lecture but I figure out let me let me think of a lecture and I will show you some cool stuff and I will tell you my a little bit of of the story of how I how I see things you know Edison said something very very amazing that I really loved he said when on the on the way to invent the light bulb he said I didn't eh I didn't mistake I didn't have mistakes I just had ten thousand I found out ten thousand way how not to do it okay this is something that I really really believe in so from that day on I say yes to anything then I break my hair to how to do it I see the challenge in front of me I go I do it no problem and and in the last year blood last years I I see that I break my head less and less and less and less and less and not because I know the challenges that I will confront and know how to solve is because I know I'm going to do it before I even do it okay I know I'm gonna do before I even do it and when I say I know I actually mean I feel let's do this for a second um even today I always say yes to impossible things that happens to me and I know I can do it because I believe in myself and this is something very important to you and you need to believe in yourself also you're not going to believe if you think about it you're not going to believe how amazing things will happen to you right now if you start to believe in yourself you will not only know how to deal with challenges and crises and then find solutions to stuff you will also not only that you will find opportunities for good stuff you will create the opportunities for yourself someone I don't remember who said it but someone once said something very cool he said if opportunity doesn't knock just build the door right I mean it's a wonderful thing and and we're gonna try to do something very cool about adult how manipulate mind because let's reduce something like this ah will get better than 3-million 130 1733 in a second I'm gonna draw here a circle and well let's test your let's test your imagination okay if you don't have good imagination just imagine that you have one okay okay so let's do this let's do this if I ask you to draw something inside this circle what would you draw inside uh my star star that's very cool and what would you do inside a face a face that's very original and what would you do um I would draw um a figure a figure which figure of anything anything okay let me go again here and what would you what would you do I'll prolly made a cricket field out of it okay whatever you said well we should you ready or what God ah really cool cool cool what will you do another circle another look okay so everybody what would you do I don't know you don't know okay so you can see you know I'm stressing you here but you can see that everybody can think creatively and think of different different things right different think what would let me to go over there to the corner what would you do you yeah take your time I get paid by the hour what sorry line okay you don't tell me yours don't tell me yours don't tell me you have something oh so don't tell me can you say what is your name Surya can you can you join me for a second give it a big run a process or a cool test let's do something very cool let me show you how you can manipulate some light you have a picture in your mind now let me ask you a question it's very very important through you come over here and did you did you tell it tell anyone no it's not set up or something correct it's not okay so take this and I want you to look over here and don't do anything yet don't turn around I'm gonna hi Irene I just look look at the circle don't do anything yet I'm gonna do the same thing here mm-hmm okay just look at the circle and when I say now you will start to do your your your drawing okay okay try to be as close as possible to what you have in your mind and don't tell me nothing close your eyes for a second some of you will know what I'm doing part of the influencer process keep your eyes closed keep your eyes closed keep your eyes closed close close close close close don't open it yet don't open it yet keep it close keep it close keep it close keep it close when I say now you will do your drawing are you ready don't start yet I'm just gonna are you closing your eyes so yeah keep your eyes closed I will show you something interesting which is very similar to something somebody said it's something but I will try to maybe do something like this okay it's very or is it is it abstract is it abstract oh yeah are you are you hypnotized so yeah don't look don't look keep looking over there keep looking over there so yeah are you ready are you ready so I want you to stop you know just a quick quick question nothing you didn't tell me what you're going to do right now and I did not tell you what to do right now okay can you please uh let's see what your reaction will be can you please do your drawing now look at this Wow look at this I have f1 I've won one more than you but I think it's similary now thank you story I give them borrowed applause so I told you our brain can be manipulated if you do the reverse look at it also you can do it also I don't know why you I was going over here I don't know why it what is your name can you stand up and I just got again what is a what is your name stand up and what is your name stand up and when he was doing this all of you would think of you're drunk were you you were thinking of like a square something something like that maybe no what were you thinking nothing who and who here was thing of a square something with a square nothing you could you did okay sorry you can sit down and you will not think of a square and you were thinking hmm can I see her on the screen for ah how you wave say hello hi eh oh there we go okay it's something from your childhood yes yeah I guess it's like you were think of if I would ask you to draw something you would probably go for like a teddy bear with ears and eyes and yes yes you can sit down you can sit down you what you're in against sorry thank you thank you I would probably do something else you would not going for this you would do something more complicated do you love your life being you know go outside see the nature it's about nature right can I see you for a second can I see you for a second on screen how are you okay so it's about nature but it's something very specific because most people in the world if they think of a flower like you did we do like a flower and do the Leafs but you did something else you thought of a flower with four leaves and then there's something in between those leaves right how do I know that I'm a mind reader you can sit down thank you so much for everyone so so this is very very cool you know what you know what at the beginning at the beginning I showed you about I talked talked about the probability to get something from over here so we will try to do something do I don't forget to get this after we'll try to do something like to finish this something with a big big big surprise and I will show you something which is really impossible to do so I will need a volunteer look at this you know because I guess your teddy bear can you join me for a second oh you know what you don't know no you can sit down you can sit up and your friend what is your name because you have glasses come over here just want to make sure you see it I give her a big round of applause okay here's here's the test here's the test um what is your name again gene okay can you one sec I'm just gonna write it for you here and can you spell it for me J Julian okay and let me just look at you for a second oh wait teddy bear with ears right okay okay okay I think that's enough and we're gonna take this and we're gonna you know what can you take all the newspapers and throw them on the floor look how fun it is look how fun is look yes good good good good so we're gonna do something very very cool with the newspapers I want you to mix them up mix them up mix everything up mix all the nice bit mix mix mix mix next week mix mix mix mix mix take your time you have ten seconds to do that this is fun huh and whatever you want you see there's newspaper this is from today and this is from yesterday this oh this is interesting this is from tomorrow actually no no I wanted to pick one of them only one of them pick one of them one of the newspapers pick it up except this one no don't let me influence you whatever you want just pick one mm-hmm go for the gossips okay this one you sure can you join me over here please so this is it let me ask you was that a fair choice settle can you open it anywhere you want just any way you want just what I do something very cool here you sure around this area okay so we have all the text here right cool sports now let me show you some words here um you see this name here it says Steven or / or I can go all the way to the right to the oh this is interesting young this is a nice word right now I'm not gonna do it you're gonna do it I want you to put your finger yeah I want you to go across the across it when you stop on a word just go use your finger yes go go go go when you want to stop to digit to do one of the texts one of the texts yes is it here now put your finger put your finger last question do you want that word or you want a different word you choose what do you think this one okay so don't say it yet you got it you sure okay so this is interesting test that we did here we have about a lot of lot of newspapers over here and she chose one of the newspaper was that a fair choice and when you open it anywhere you want was a fair choice and then I told you to move and you stopped specifically you cannot see it but nevermind and this word and I'm going to give you the microphone and say out loud the word that you chose believe believe exactly says believe now did you give you you choose this world because I was talking about believing oh you just randomly randomly and you chose believe what is the chance that I will know that you will choose this word that you will choose this newspaper from all the newspapers that you will open to this page you would choose this column and choose the word believe what is the chance nearly zero no it's exactly three million one hundred and thirty one thousand seven hundred and thirty eight like I did before really no because can you read what I wrote for you over there please out loud just take it look at it and just read it out loud please leave read the whole thing ji-yong will choose believe who you will choose believe can you can we see this so much mess so no no stay with me stay with me come over here so to conclude this to conclude this I do the impossible every day in my life in my professional about life in my personal life by the way I lie to you I like to highlight all of you eh I didn't influence you to say believe to to choose believe I knew you which was believe how did I know no no no not because I'm I already because yeah because yeah yeah good good good says the run the number that I wrote here at the beginning three million one hundred is actually spells believe if you turn this over so you will hold this you hold this so I do it on my life I do it everywhere I go I perform all over the world and I love what I do and I do the impossible as I said for two reasons one because it's really really cool and two to prove to all of you that you can do the same if you thank you very much go back this is your scissors thank you very much thank you

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Length: 29min 39sec (1779 seconds)

Published: Tue May 07 2013