722: Brian Brushwood | Scam Your Way into Anything
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Brian Brushwood (@shwood) has spent the last 20 years entertaining and teaching people how to harness the deceptive (and self-deceptive) skills of scientists, spies, criminals, and con artists. He is the author of Scam School: Your Guide to Scoring Free Drinks, Doing Magic, and Becoming the Life of the Party. [Note: This is a previously broadcast episode from the vault that we felt deserved a fresh pass through your earholes!]
What We Discuss with Brian Brushwood:- Why being interesting isn’t a gift — it’s a practice.
- How fixed action patterns help us get others to do what we want them to do. (Important note: for good — not evil!)
- How to control a conversation by asking the right questions.
- The best way to convince someone to help us? By making it their idea.
- Why we’re all susceptible to being duped in spite of our highly developed human brains — and how practicing magic can train us to be more resistant to the fraudulent.
- And so much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harvanger Show. |
| 0:02.8 | When I learned the fundamentals of magic, |
| 0:05.8 | there's a rhythm and pacing that you have to set things up. |
| 0:09.6 | If you do a good magic trick, |
| 0:11.0 | you very artfully set up all the walls around the person |
| 0:14.5 | until you reveal the effect. |
| 0:16.9 | And by the time they see the effect |
| 0:19.1 | and then they try to backtrack and figure out how you did it, |
| 0:21.5 | they realize that they're completely locked in a mental cell. |
| 0:24.0 | They can't remember the right part |
| 0:25.2 | or they were looking at the wrong place. |
| 0:26.7 | The moment a magician says, |
| 0:28.5 | Now we begin, you're already screwed. |
| 0:34.5 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harvanger. |
| 0:36.7 | On the Jordan Harvanger Show, |
| 0:38.2 | we decode the stories, secrets and skills |
| 0:40.3 | of the world's most fascinating people. |
| 0:42.1 | We have in-depth conversations with scientists and entrepreneurs, |
| 0:45.3 | spies and psychologists, |
| 0:46.9 | even the occasional war correspondent |
| 0:48.7 | to arms dealer or rocket scientist. |
| 0:51.1 | In each episode turns our guests wisdom |
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