We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave

We're able to use certain techniques to get people to behave in certain ways. We're able to use certain techniques to make it look like we're reading minds, even though we're not.

📖 Keith Barry

🌍 Irish | 👨‍💼 Entertainer

🎂 October 2, 1976

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This quote highlights the power of psychological techniques and misdirection in influencing people's perceptions and decisions. It underscores how skills like persuasion, psychological manipulation, and illusion can create a sense of mind-reading or control, even without supernatural abilities. Recognizing these techniques is essential in understanding everyday interactions, marketing, or even in critical thinking to prevent being duped by clever illusions.

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