TED英语演讲稿：你能控制他人的注意力吗？_演讲稿
江南大学研究生院-幼儿园庆元旦主持词
TED英语演讲稿：你能控制他人的注意力
吗？
简介：你能控制他人的注意力吗?全球最伟大的“扒手”Apollo
Robbins现场揭示人类的
认知瑕疵。八分钟的演讲中，他当众偷天换
日，你甚至到演讲结尾处才发现他在中间换了一套服装。注意
力决定
了你看到的世界。如果你能控制他人的注意力，你会用它来做什么呢?
Do
you think it's possible to control someone's
attention?
Even more than that, what about
predicting human behavior? I
think those are
interesting ideas, if you could. I mean, for
me, that would be the perfect superpower,
actually kind of an
evil way of approaching
it. But for myself, in the past, I've
spent
the last 20 years studying human behavior from a
rather
unorthodox way: picking pockets. When
we think of misdirection,
we think of
something as looking off to the side, when
actually
it's often the things that are right
in front of us that are
the hardest things to
see, the things that you look at every
day
that you're blinded to.
For example, how
many of you still have your cell phones
on you
right now? Great. Double-check. Make sure you
still have
them on you. I was doing some
shopping beforehand. Now you've
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looked at them
probably a few times today, but I'm going to ask
you a question about them. Without looking at
your cell phone
directly yet, can you remember
the icon in the bottom right
corner? Bring
them out, check, and see how accurate you were.
How'd you do? Show of hands. Did we get it?
Now that you're done looking at those,
close them down,
because every phone has
something in common. No matter how you
organize the icons, you still have a clock on
the front. So,
without looking at your phone,
what time was it? You just looked
at your
clock, right? It's an interesting idea. Now, I'll
ask
you to take that a step further with a
game of trust. Close your
eyes. I realize I'm
asking you to do that while you just heard
there's a pickpocket in the room, but close
your eyes.
Now, you've been watching me
for about 30 seconds. With your
eyes closed,
what am I wearing? Make your best guess. What
color
is my shirt? What color is my tie? Now
open your eyes. By a show
of hands, were you
right?
It's interesting, isn't it? Some
of us are a little bit more
perceptive than
others. It seems that way. But I have a
different theory about that, that model of
attention. They have
fancy models of
attention, Posner's trinity model of attention.
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For
me, I like to think of it very simple, like a
surveillance
system. It's kind of like you
have all these fancy sensors, and
inside your
brain is a little security guard. For me, I like
to call him Frank. So Frank is sitting at a
desk. He's got all
sorts of cool information
in front of him, high-tech equipment,
he's got
cameras, he's got a little phone that he can pick
up,
listen to the ears, all these senses, all
these perceptions.
But attention is what
steers your perceptions, is what controls
your
reality. It's the gateway to the mind. If you
don't attend
to something, you can't be aware
of it. But ironically, you can
attend to
something without being aware of it. That's why
there's the cocktail effect: When you're in a
party, you're
having conversations with
someone, and yet you can recognize
your name
and you didn't even realize you were listening to
that.
Now, for my job, I have to play
with techniques to exploit
this, to play with
your attention as a limited resource. So if
I
could control how you spend your attention, if I
could maybe
steal your attention through a
distraction. Now, instead of
doing it like
misdirection and throwing it off to the side,
instead, what I choose to focus on is Frank,
to be able to play
with the Frank inside your
head, your little security guard,
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and get you,
instead of focusing on your external senses, just
to go internal for a second. So if I ask you
to access a memory,
like, what is that? What
just happened? Do you have a wallet?
Do you
have an American Express in your wallet? And when
I do
that, your Frank turns around. He
accesses the file. He has to
rewind the tape.
And what's interesting is, he can't rewind the
tape at the same time that he's trying to
process new data.
Now, I mean, this
sounds like a good theory, but I could
talk
for a long time and tell you lots of things, and
they may
be true, a portion of them, but I
think it's better if I tried
to show that to
you here live. So if I come down, I'm going to
do a little bit of shopping. Just hold still
where you are.
Hello, how are you? It's
lovely to see you. You did a
wonderful job
onstage. You have a lovely watch that doesn't come
off very well. Do you have your ring as well?
Good. Just taking
inventory. You're like a
buffet. It's hard to tell where to
start,
there's so many great things.
Hi, how are
you? Good to see you.
Hi, sir, could you
stand up for me, please? Just right where
you
are. Oh, you're married. You follow directions
well. That's
nice to meet you, sir. You don't
have a whole lot inside your
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pockets. Anything
down by the pocket over here? Hopefully so.
Have a seat. There you go. You're doing well.
Hi, sir, how are you? Good to see you,
sir. You have a ring,
a watch. Do you have a
wallet on you? Joe: I don't. Apollo
Robbins:
Well, we'll find one for you. Come on up this way,
Joe.
Give Joe a round of applause. Come on up
Joe. Let's play a game.
(Applause)
Pardon me.
I don't think I need this
clicker anymore. You can have that.
Thank you
very much. I appreciate that.
Come on up
to the stage, Joe. Let's play a little game now.
Do you have anything in your front pockets?
Joe: Money. AR:
Money. All right, let's try
that. Can you stand right over this
way for
me? Turn around and, let's see, if I give you
something
that belongs to me, this is just
something I have, a poker chip.
Hold out your
hand for me. Watch it kind of closely. Now this
is a task for you to focus on. Now you have
your money in your
front pocket here? Joe:
Yup. AR: Good. I'm not going to actually
put
my hand in your pocket. I'm not ready for that
kind of
commitment. One time a guy had a hole
in his pocket, and that
was rather
traumatizing for me. I was looking for his wallet
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and
he gave me his phone number. It was a big
miscommunication.
So let's do this
simply. Squeeze your hand. Squeeze it tight.
Do you feel the poker chip in your hand? Joe:
I do. AR: Would
you be surprised if I could
take it out of your hand? Say yes.
Joe: Very.
AR: Good. Open your hand. Thank you very much.
I'll
cheat if you give me a chance. Make it
harder for me. Just use
your hand. Grab my
wrist, but squeeze, squeeze firm. Did you
see
it go? Joe: No. AR: No, it's not here. Open your
hand. See,
while we're focused on the hand,
it's sitting on your shoulder
right now. Go
ahead and take it off. Now, let's try that again.
Hold your hand out flat. Open it up all the
way. Put your hand
up a little bit higher, but
watch it close there, Joe. See, if
I did it
slowly, it'd be back on your shoulder. (Laughter)
Joe,
we're going to keep doing this till you
catch it. You're going
to get it eventually. I
have faith in you. Squeeze firm. You're
human,
you're not slow. It's back on your shoulder. You
were
focused on your hand. That's why you were
distracted. While you
were watching this, I
couldn't quite get your watch off. It was
difficult. Yet you had something inside your
front pocket. Do
you remember what it was?
Joe: Money. AR: Check your pocket.
See if it's
still there. Is it still there? (Laughter) Oh,
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that's where it was. Go ahead and put
it away. We're just
shopping. This trick's
more about the timing, really. I'm going
to
try to push it inside your hand. Put your other
hand on top
for me, would you? It's amazingly
obvious now, isn't it? It
looks a lot like the
watch I was wearing, doesn't it?
(Laughter) (Applause)
Joe: That's pretty
good. That's pretty good. AR: Oh, thanks.
But
it's only a start. Let's try it again, a little
bit
differently. Hold your hands together. Put
your other hand on
top. Now if you're watching
this little token, this obviously
has become a
little target. It's like a red herring. If we
watch
this kind of close, it looks like it
goes away. It's not back
on your shoulder. It
falls out of the air, lands right back in
the
hand. Did you see it go? Yeah, it's funny. We've
got a little
guy. He's union. He works up
there all day. If I did it slowly,
if it goes
straightaway, it lands down by your pocket. I
believe
is it in this pocket, sir? No, don't
reach in your pocket. That's
a different show.
So -- (Squeaking noise) -- that's rather
strange. They have shots for that. Can I show
them what that
is? That's rather bizarre. Is
this yours, sir? I have no idea
how that
works. We'll just send that over there.
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That's
great. I need help with this one. Step over this
way
for me. Now don't run away. You had
something down by your pants
pocket. I was
checking mine. I couldn't find everything, but
I noticed you had something here. Can I feel
the outside of your
pocket for a moment? Down
here I noticed this. Is this something
of
yours, sir? Is this? I have no idea. That's a
shrimp.
Joe: Yeah. I'm saving it for
later.
AR: You've entertained all of
these people in a wonderful
way, better than
you know. So we'd love to give you this lovely
watch as a gift. (Laughter) Hopefully it
matches his taste. But
also, we have a couple
of other things, a little bit of cash,
and
then we have a few other things. These all belong
to you,
along with a big round of applause
from all your friends.
(Applause)
oe,
thank you very much.
(Applause)
So, same question I asked you before, but this
time you
don't have to close your eyes. What
am I wearing?
(Laughter)
(Applause)
Attention is a powerful thing.
Like I said, it shapes your
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reality. So, I
guess I'd like to pose that question to you. If
you could control somebody's attention, what
would you do with
it?
Thank you.
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