The Art of Reading Minds | Oz Pearlman | TED
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Have you ever wanted to read someone's mind? Mentalist Oz Pearlman is billed as one of the world's greatest mind readers ... and yet, he says he doesn't have any special powers. In this spectacular talk meets psychic-inspired magic show, he demonstrates his skills on a live audience in the TED theater. (Recorded at TED2025 on April 11, 2025)
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He always ask the person to tell the name first before he turns the board to show the name!
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WTF! I thought about Obama! No way! Other names popped up in my head but Obama kept stuck in my head
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People were like how is this possible. Including me.
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Amazingggggggggggggggg Beilieve it in order to achieve it, Dammm Brah it's Dope
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Learned absolutely nothing. So the show could be fake could be not, what am i suppose to do? Be impressed?
@gasperbevc8092Look up metadeception
@mithilamangedarage1493I fundamentally do not understand how this is done. What possible fluency could he have with body language to have pulled Trevor Noah out of the air like that?! It's sorcery, I tell you!
@eunomiacIs he a magician?
@mariemmohamed6126i think people who holds mic for people telling him via there mic
@Esubalew_lateI like that Clara Hartley’s anxiety quiz doesn’t immediately make it obvious which answer sounds “healthiest.” With a lot of quizzes, people choose the answer they think they’re supposed to choose. These questions made it slightly harder to do that.
@Jia-933How are we thinking of the same person? Hahaha
@j.placerosHow To Become A Mentalist Like Patrick Jane?
@Lifelessuser-k6lyou watched to much of The mentalist TV show bro 😂
@Lifelessuser-k6lHe is from israel
@muntaha0019If he could read minds he wouldn’t say so; he’d just go around stealing everyone’s log-in information…👎🏻
@andrewpotzler9629What? I also thought of Barack Obama
@TheMuhammedtaha1He’s not much of a prognosticator but has some good tricks that he set up before the show or he leads them to an obvious conclusion.
@HawgsSmellGoodOn the last one it looks like when the guy was writing down Barack O'Bama the guy holding the mic may have had a camera that picked up the name, that name was then sent from someone off stage to a small screen on the podium or through the headset of the host that was said loud enough for the guesser to hear it and repeat it. But how did he just randomly catch the Frisbee. May that entire section where the Frisbee had been thrown to was filled with people working with the host and before the show the host practiced throwing that Frisbee to that spot over and over again. Remember people don't Drink The Kool Aid when served to you.
@___Will__Ferrellpatrick jane student
@VoyagexhdheheWhat 😮😮😮.. I'm speechless 😶
@asmit-rahmanThis guy has been debunked several times already, specifically with Charles Barkley who blew the trick on live tv!
@ykmjcIt was a decent show
@airstuff1874SHERLOCK HOLMES IN A DISGUISE, HE REALLY THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T NOTICE
@monster-thetechnicalman8501Came here for some teaching,
Just saw a magic show
One thing he's is not telling you dummies that he work for mossad.
@Sovereign-kalbut i still dont believe it. Feels like TED is becoming a big magic show
@bowenzhang4471🙄🙄🙄🤦🏾♂️
@jordanleebrown5403..and shows how anyone can learn mentalism.. great!
@transformers-NXIs it ok that my first thought was the german guy
@ahmadminhaj523Anyone from Pakistan ❤
@MemonBilal456How on this earth can you read people's minds without claiming you're a magician? Surprisingly, I use the tactic he described to remember people's names. I didn't even know it's a highly suggested tactic.
@elnaramammadova8274That how Pastor do it
@PLAYCODmovieI loved it
@Beyondscience_21clickbated
@Shahed_Is_OnStaged
@michaelheong166Beautiful
@The-Winning-Code111I read feeling. I know when you lie.
@bradhunt9518scripted right?
@user-uo3nb9yn5jNow it feel like it is scripted
@SheikhAbuRakatMeh please this is fake
@koolharshiOkey thats was waste of time
@saudah_nanjibaCan you read mind of someone who thinks in different language which you don’t know.?
@dharmik3617How bro 😭😭
@priyanshubhattacharjee75473:59 did u guys notice the eye contact between Ian and the girl who is holding the mic
@ThushanInduwaraHe’s literally lying this entire time. This isn’t how he does his magic at all and what he is essentially doing by claiming it’s anything other than tricks is being a fraud. Pathetic TED would have this guy speak lies to an audience under the guise of fact.
@Chicken_TsunamiCome on...
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