{"id":2960,"date":"2012-03-07T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2012-03-06T18:30:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T23:30:04","slug":"a-magicians-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/a-magicians-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"A Magician\u2019s Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030412_0653_AMagiciansS1.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Illusionist Teller from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penn_and_Teller\">Penn and Teller<\/a> recently revealed seven principles that magicians use to manipulate you. Here are three of them:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to think critically if you&#8217;re laughing&#8221; \u2013 follow up an amazing trick with a joke so that the viewer doesn&#8217;t have time to analyze the deception.\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Nothing fools you better than the lie you tell yourself&#8221; \u2013 let your audience feel as if they had the opportunity to use their own intellect to figure out what you&#8217;re doing.\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Make the secret a lot more trouble than the trick seems worth&#8221; \u2013 if there&#8217;s a conceivable explanation for how you performed your trick, but that explanation suggests you did a prohibitive amount of work, then do the work, people will assume it&#8217;s a trick.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the rest of the seven, as well as an example of a trick that integrates all of the principles outlined, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/Teller-Reveals-His-Secrets.html\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/Teller-Reveals-His-Secrets.html\">Smithsonian<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/brainiac\/2012\/02\/teller_explains.html\"><em>The Boston Globe<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illusionist Teller from Penn and Teller recently revealed seven principles that magicians use to manipulate you. Here are three of them: &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to think critically if you&#8217;re laughing&#8221; \u2013 follow up an amazing trick with a joke so that the viewer doesn&#8217;t have time to analyze the deception. &#8220;Nothing fools you better than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/030412_0653_AMagiciansS1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3037,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/3037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}