Derren Brown: Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head
Derren Brown: Mentalismo, leer la mente y el arte de meterse en tu cabeza
With beguiling feats of mind reading and suggestion, Derren Brown explores psychological manipulation and its implications for the human experience. Full bio
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about the world are limited
del mundo están limitados
in this infinite data source.
en esta fuente infinita de datos.
that we could think about,
en las que podemos pensar,
what to pay attention to.
a qué prestar atención.
with our own skewed compasses,
con nuestras brújulas desnortadas,
are utterly convincing.
son increíblemente convincentes.
that we live by aren't even our own.
ni siquiera son nuestras.
at a young age from our parents,
de pequeños de nuestros padres,
their own skewed beliefs,
sus propias opiniones,
their own unlived lives.
sus propias vidas no vividas.
we take all that onboard,
las llevamos con nosotros
be successful to be loved;
que tener éxito para que nos quieran;
other people's needs first;
las necesidades de los demás por delante;
we couldn't possible tell people.
que no podemos contar a la gente.
about what other people think of us
sobre lo que piensan los demás,
de lo poco que lo hacen.
for how we edit reality and form a story
cómo editar la realidad, crear historias,
esas historias con la verdad.
en el Reino Unido
experiments on TV,
psicológicos en televisión,
coming up, called "Secret."
mi primer show en Broadway.
with mentalism, mentalism,
con el mentalismo, mentalismo,
of getting inside your head.
for this kind of stage mind-reading,
de este tipo de lectura de mentes.
an act known as the Oracle Act.
conocido como el acto del Oráculo.
members of the audience,
los miembros del público,
you might ask a psychic,
que harían a un vidente.
they would write their initials
y su lugar aproximado de asiento.
where they sat in the audience.
would take an envelope one at a time,
tomaba los sobres uno a uno,
what question was sealed inside.
qué pregunta estaba guardada dentro.
he would try and answer the question
responder a la pregunta
como la pólvora.
to the seductive appeal
sobre el aspecto seductor
offering you easy, simple answers
respuestas simples y sencillas
that wrote questions.
escribieron preguntas.
I know somebody's guarding them.
Sé que alguien las guarda.
Thank you all of you that did this.
Gracias a todos los que ayudaron.
a couple of things before I start.
un par de cosas antes de empezar.
through these envelopes.
a través de los sobres.
They are thick black envelopes.
I can't see through them.
Es imposible.
I don't know any of you
no conozco a nadie aquí
any special psychological gifts,
ningún don psicológico
There's a couple here.
Aquí hay un par.
because the writing undulates.
porque la escritura es ondulada.
normally means
the answer to the question themselves,
la respuesta a la pregunta.
about the future, right?
sobre el futuro, ¿no?
from this minimal handwriting,
por esta mínima escritura...
maybe 40s, but let's find out.
pero vamos a averiguarlo.
about the future --
in this big central section here.
de esta sección central de aquí.
if you wrote one,
to see in the center.
Jessica: Jessica.
J: Jessica.
Little murmur of approval, thank you?
Unos murmullos de aprobación, por favor.
I won't ask your age,
trata sobre el futuro?
essentially about the future?
DB: Yes?
DB: ¿Sí?
DB: Yes. OK.
DB: Sí. Bien.
What did Jessica ask about the future?
¿Qué pregunta Jessica sobre el futuro?
depending how old we are.
dependiendo de la edad.
Jessica: Yes, I am.
Jessica: Sí.
who wants to leave Virginia.
que quiere irse de Virginia.
are going to come together to get out.
van a salir bien o no.
to sell your farm and get out of Virginia?
y te marcharás de Virginia, ¿verdad?
esa es la pregunta.
It's a great question!
¡Es una gran pregunta!
What did you put?
¿Qué escribió?
the farm in Virginia?"
if you are pretending to be psychic,
si simulan ser psíquicos,
a yes or no on this.
puedo darles un sí o un no.
You have no way of verifying it.
No hay manera de verificarlo.
it'll just stick in the back of your mind,
dando vueltas en la cabeza,
decisions you make.
las decisiones que tomes.
will get what you want.
de la mejor manera.
you tend to focus on them
tiendes a centrarte en ellas
should be focusing on more,
deberías centrarte más.
Jessica: Yes.
Jessica: Sí.
Jessica: No.
Jessica: No.
A bit of a guess, but ...
Solo supongo, pero...
Stop doing this!
¡Deja de hacer esto!
to India recently as well.
going on there. Yes? No?
to say it like it's written in the stars
como si estuviera destinado a ocurrir,
responsabilidad. ¿Contesté a tu pregunta?
to take responsibility for it.
Thank you. Let's do another one.
DB: Siéntate. Hagamos otro.
maybe late 40s, I would say from this.
Por la carta quizás de 40 y muchos.
if you think this is you.
si piensas que eres tú.
on camera would be amazing.
una cámara sería increíble.
Don't move. Don't move.
No te muevas. No te muevas.
you did as you got up.
put something on here --
but you did it as you stood up --
pero al levantarte, sí.
or your left foot, yes or no?
tu pie izquierdo. ¿Sí o no?
a nice clear signal as he stood up.
una señal clara al levantarse.
left-hand side and say "yes."
tu lado izquierdo y dime "sí".
put your weight on the other side,
y pon el peso en el otro lado,
and say "yes" again.
Good one! Take a seat. Take a seat.
¡Muy buena! Siéntate.
I'm going to change microphone for this.
Voy a cambiar de micrófono esta vez.
That would be great there.
have the clues as you stand up.
no tener pruebas cuando se levanten.
to what I'm saying.
next to you are doing either.
lo que la persona de al lado hace.
that's always very helpful.
siempre resulta muy fácil.
is only that it just kind of gets
de fórmula corta en la cabeza.
wording in your head.
a question in your head,
preguntas en tu cabeza,
just send it to me,
without anything written down.
sin que haya nada escrito.
but send me your name as well.
preguntas con sus nombres.
or whatever the question was.
I'm guessing you're quite near the front,
porque tu nombre está muy claro.
in the center at the front.
en el centro, por delante.
the front, vaguely central, I think.
hacia el centro, creo.
something like that.
so that I know where you are,
para saber donde estás,
Allan: Yes.
Allan: Sí.
hear the reserve in his voice?
Just say "yes" again for me?
or access to something.
para acceder a algo.
with a password in your head?
algo relacionado con una contraseña?
de computadora, ¿algo así?
that sort of thing?
to finish on this one. Let me ---
Déjame...
and millions of people potentially.
y millones de personas potencialmene.
Allan: Of course.
Allan: Por supuesto.
I imagine it's a word, right --
Me imagino que es una palabra...
written in front of you,
of a letter somewhere in the middle,
en cualquier parte de esa palabra.
that's in the middle.
una letra por el medio.
Allan: Sí.
Allan: Yeah.
Allan: Correct.
Allan: Sí.
Allan: Yes.
Allan: Sí.
He changed his mind.
Cambió de idea.
to yourself in your head.
get that out of your head,
to get you to pay attention
para conseguir dirigir su atención
to find important,
que Uds. creen importante.
that I want you to ignore,
que quiero que ignoren
about what I'm doing,
sobre lo que hago ahora.
somos criaturas de crear historias.
we are story-forming creatures,
and subtle world
like you and me, Allan,
como tú y yo, Allan,
to these neat characters
a estos personajes ordenados
we're telling ourselves,
que contemos.
"He's arrogant," "They can't be trusted."
"él es arrogante", y otras cosas,
that I can somehow read your mind.
como la de que les puedo leer la mente.
as well, aren't you, at the moment.
estás pensando en vender tu empresa?
por la que amo hacer esto
why I love doing this
estar más vivo y alerta
to try and be more alive and alert
de lo que es real,
and the subtlety of what's real,
ocurriendo, que no conocemos.
going on that we don't know about,
ser más amables con los demás
we can be kinder to people
el miedo detrás de su estrés,
there's always fear behind their stress,
tomar todo a la defensiva,
to meet it as defensively,
for what they are
a ver las historias por lo que son
isn't all about us.
no gira entorno a nosotros.
Where are you? Where is he?
¿Dónde está?
Your password is "ariboy."
Tu contraseña es "ariboy".
Allan: That's correct.
Allan: Sí, correcto.
Thank you very much indeed.
Muchas gracias, de verdad.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Derren Brown - Psychological illusionist, authorWith beguiling feats of mind reading and suggestion, Derren Brown explores psychological manipulation and its implications for the human experience.
Why you should listen
Derren Brown redefines magic through must-see TV and stage events, exhilarating audiences for 20 years in the UK and now worldwide with his brand of psychological illusion. He has gained a reputation as a performer consistently prepared to break down boundaries.
Amid a varied and notorious TV career, Brown has played Russian Roulette live, convinced middle managers to commit armed robbery, led the nation in a séance, stuck viewers at home to their sofas, motivated a shy man to land a packed passenger plane at 30,000 feet, hypnotized another to assassinate Stephen Fry, persuaded a racist to change his ways and lay down his life for an illegal immigrant, and created a zombie apocalypse for an unwitting participant after dramatically ending the world.
Brown's most recent special, Sacrifice, is currently streaming on Netflix, and his show Secret will be playing on Broadway at the Cort Theatre from September 6, 2019 through January 4, 2020. He is the author of Meet the People with Love, Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine and Confessions of a Conjuror.
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