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He even poured a glass of water for the host. What a great guy.
I'm really glad that Derren accepted this invitation and spent the time doing this interview. This was well worth watching and it was very rewarding to hear Derren talk about his work and his experiences from a more personal angle. I've been a fan of his work for years, watching from the states, but I also respect and admire him as a person.
Always surprises me Americans are fans of very British personalities! 🤯
@@hanniffydinn6019 Me too! Its usually Eastern Europe. But Derren Browns proffesion is mostly appealing to U.S.A ???
I've always been fascinated by Derren's work and his genuine interest in the mechanics of the human mind.
It's always great to hear him talk at length about what he does.
The girl who interviewed him wasn't great though. At times she didn't sound all that interested and I lost count of how many times she said, "You know."
Derren isn't just an illusionist. He's a living legend.
Definitely one of my fantasy dinner guests. This has just reminded why.
What a great human being.
Re: the 4 foot wall. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.' I think Derren Brown may have subconsciously absorbed Sting's liner note for the song Sister Moon, on the album 'Nothing Like the Sun., 1987, (when Derren was 16 years old). The lyrics are named after Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. When accosted by a drunk man while out walking at night, Sting quoted it to bamboozle and disempower him. It worked. Interesting that Derren said you could also use a song lyric.
Derren is an introvert, so he was just getting warmed up by the time it ended. 😭😃
He's so interesting. I could listen to him speak for hours
Yes, hours.... and, YOU'RE AWAKE!
You've just: robbed a bank, assassinated a public figure and escaped a zombie apocalypse.
*snap*
His art, actual caricature depictions, is beyond amazing. Truly genius work.
I'm currently saving up for a print right now!
Always entertaining and thought provoking stripped down and talking honestly to an audience. But at the same time knowing that derren has Jedi powers!
Very Good Haha
awesome genuine person with morals and class
A writer kept a lucky charm on his wall and when asked if he really believed it brought him good luck he said, of course not - but its said to bring you luck even if you don't believe in it
Derren is truly a magnificent human being! Thank you, sir, for your work!
Hahahahan this is his greatest show yet. He just took you all along for a ride.
i like that Derren isnt overly confident considering his knowledge, his hands near his mouth an not looking directly really shows how shy he is
Love Derren Brown!
Who we are is context-specific and fluid. While we are individuals, but we are also part of a larger organism. Empathy and projection is how we connect to each other and function collectively when we have to. Yet in modern society we fool ourselves into believing the narrative of being “rugged individualists.”
Am I The only one that can't stop seeing Justin Timberlake it's uncanny! It is like morphing
Who?
He's a fascinating guy.
If there's an antonym to 'psychopathic', this man is it. Omnipathic? Respect and awe.
Derren lastest show is great and if you watch it then you will have too enjoy the show !!!!!!!!!
Great showman
Thank you Derren... You're every bit a mystery as Houdini... you'll still be fooling everyone in the most gentle of ways long after you're done... brilliant sir!!
Very enjoyable and illuminating discussion. I was particularly blown away by Derren's teaching on the emotional states that produce increasing motivation: gratitude, compassion and (healthy) pride. Since midlife (I'm now 59) I have been on a path to deeper self discovery which allowed me to let go of many aspects of my ego patterns. As a result I have cultivated more gratitude and healthy compassion (I used to try and fix people emotionally) but recently I realised an area for growth is related to how I downplay my own skills and abilities. I now realise am low in healthy pride and so this insight is gold for me, thank you Derren.
My self awareness journey morphed into a discovery of my spiritual self and as such, I view gratitude, compassion and pride as some of our highest emotional states of being (non ego self). I often feel the urge to share some of what I've learned with others but haven't done that thus far, so, without expectation of outcome :) I'm going to purposefully practice these three states each morning before I start the day. Maybe, some action will spring forth, maybe not. Being motivated to take action has felt like my biggest difficulty, although it's also possible this idea may simply be a narrative I need to let go of. We'll see!
Well done. Keep going who knows what else you can find out! Thanks for sharing.
@@dbrad5197 Thanks so much! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁🎄
@@HelenThomasCreativeHealer same to you! Have a great one!
Amazing, thinking I should do this too!
@@maxadams6661 if you want to try it, I can give some pointers if you like?
'You're a mentalist'! Not my words, but the words of Alan Partridge.
As a performer, magician and mind-reader you are and will always be an inspiration for me.
What am I thinking right now then?
@@tcrittthat nobody will be able to know what you were thinking
I believe what Mr. Brown means by being drawn to people who are susceptible to hypnosis is because they tend to be vulnerable or have the ability to be vulnerable. Jazz is like that. You can study the rudiments,notes,techniques, but in order to have musical intercourse you have to allow vulnerability. It's the secret to life to creativeness. The fear of it can stifle growth, create arrogance and limit humility (humble is the ability to give power,to realize your limits). Give and take,press and let go. A good melody is rarely forced but allowed. Easier said than done. With that I humbly wish you all peace-love
Absolutely right! Watching a Mark Knopler tutorial? vid I was struck by his complete absence of ego and humble person. Magic
I do hypnosis on people for healing, also family beliefs mostly to delete negative but I become the negativity and go full into motion enhancing it in silence without talking. Some things you cannot change, it only happens through people's consciousness and willingness. Could never understand why do it for shows, but hey! It's to enjoy not understand.
Another wonderful guest, thank you. It's very important to study hypnosis how words work with the minds and what's read in the air.
yeah this sounds totally legit
I've also been practicing hypnosis, and the more I learn, the more I think stage hypnosis is pretty lame. I'm like Derren in that I have no interest in people who are just "playing along".
The willing suspension of disbelief... In short, faith manifesting
You know. You know. You know. You know. You know.
You know.
Errrr
Ummmm
Errrr ummmmm
Errrrr
I now know, thank you, you know.
He said a few things that were funny in the first 15 mins, but the interviewer just nodded and smiled, and there was nothing. Another interviewer could have responded with a big laugh and "hypnotised" the audience into laughing too.
What?
what are you smoking?
I’m only part way through, but you’re correct - she’s working through her list of topics but isn’t particularly responding to Derren’s replies. I guess her brief was to host an ‘interview’ rather than a ‘conversation’. Very interesting show though.
I don’t remember there being a brief that he had to be funny for the whole presentation, he was very interesting and thoughtful in his answers which is what most people want from these talks. It’s not a stage show! Very enjoyable
@@seansankey3562 Yes, I agree entirely that Derren Brown was interesting and thoughtful. That is indeed what I want from these talks, and that's why I like listening to him - he invariably is both. My point wasn't a criticism of Derren Brown, nor was I saying that there ought to be humour throughout the presentation. I was if anything criticising the interviewer, perhaps not very clearly. I noted that Derren said some funny things at the start of this conversation, but that unfortunately the interviewer responded with nothing, not even a chuckle. This was a shame. He might at least have acknowledged the humour with a smile. The audience (slightly ironic point here) might have been more likely to respond with a laugh with these initial interjections of wit, had the interviewer done so. I expressed it badly though.
Hope that is better worded this time around, thanks.
Nice to see Eric Idle interviewing Derren Brown.
Attractive, intelligent interviewer capable of listening?
7:14 Fun fact - you can see Derren eminate his trademark micronod towards the presenter in which she instantly responds by nodding back :-j
love youuuuuuuu
Very good sort of video
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Wow. First Jordan Peterson, now Derren Brown. Cant get any better than that.
And Stephen Fry inbetween!
Jordan Peterson is a different sort of mentalist.
Keep them coming!
What do you mean by Jordan? What do you mean by Peterson?
Worth going to Cambridge just for the su!
What a class act of a guy.
@Monya Gal Derren? I mean, sure he's made a ton of money from his career but I don't think that makes him a bad person.
@Monya Gal You despise people making a living?
@Monya Gal What boys? I'm just curious as to your inexact comment
@Monya Gal It's sexist and unwoke..Possibly hatespeech against Derren because he's a successful homosexual?
Relax, just jestin' 😁
Would love Derren to sit with me for 2 hours and sort out my mindset!
Get behind me in the queue 😉
Does anyone know who asked the question around 1hr 3mins regarding self-help, Happy and the support group they set up? I'd like to get in touch with him for research purposes. Many thanks.
I agree, and i love derren brown.. but i was only 20 when i found out about this philosophy and i must say Derren that you should end your thought journey there. Listen to alan watts and go deeper down the rabbit hole
Hello I t have you tried creating an environment of suggestibility
Fascinating 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤
Why would they select a person that whistle when she talk to do interviews on camera?
I’m definitely hypnotised by… you know… um… sort of… you know… kind of a sort of… um… you know… sort of… you know… ummm… sort of… … … an incredibly distracting speech 😴
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I suppose…
Is she the best interviewer they’ve got? Ummm you know. Maybe. Errr not
They’re supposed to be our brightest minds, but don’t think to turn their chairs round?
@DerrenBrown I am Laughing out Loud literally, because until this show I have sent all my messages to an @DarrenBrown on your RUclips shows I've been watching... sadly it took me watching the Cambridge Union interview directly following you saying on one of your shows about covering your watch and tell me if it has a second-hand, and what time did it say
Why is the word happy so seemingly ubiquitous? It is as if "The Happiness Trap" by Russ Harris has never been written. ACT as a now major therapeutic approach has a very different perspective on some of these issues. No 1 is that we have much less control over our thoughts and feelings, than our physical actions and words, written or spoken. Also Stoicism on the surface can appear rationally strong, but experientially false for higher hanging "emotional fruits". Hence the growth of more Buddhist influences on 3rd wave CBT approaches.
i wish she would have put more effort into thinking of her questions - they do not advance the agenda of mentalism amongst the common people much at all...which is what we're all really after.
What's mentalism? And who's 'we'?
What a legend!
the host says 'you know' too much for my liking...
Anyone else inadvertently find themselves getting tired at 38:45?
sort of…you know
Are we to thank the exit of the court fool VC for this type of content?
I remember, about 40 years ago or something, and it's amazing because I can't remember what I had for breakfast, learning something. At school I had to do one of those things where there's a story and you have a multichoice thing at the end to see if you paid attention. Anyhow. Harry Houdini understood something really important. If you just pay people to lie/act then people won't want such a mundane explanation and will invent their own more fascinating events. Derren is a very smart guy, he just does the same thing. It's entirely fiction - but people just won't have it! There's a great lesson for authoritarian politicians here, as if they don't already know. PASS THE BURDEN OF DEFENSE ONTO THE VIEWER !
And there you are - the strange hooded man from the cave below Clifton suspension bridge
How many times does she have to say 'UM' ?
You know
I would have liked to ask if the people in his life can lie to him or if he’d always catch them out
I accidentally spoke for a deceased relative to a friend of mine because I felt so compelled to in the moment(was manic) and while I said something very wholesome I felt horrified I’d done it some months later and apologized. It’s not like I could actually know a persons final thoughts, but I just felt I knew what they wished they could say if they’d been able. Do not have plans to try that ever again 🥴 and if I do I know to say I don’t believe it’s real first now so thank you for the demonstrations you’ve done for us Derren 🫡
@@LucaBunny. It sounds like you would be a wonderful friend! Wholesome when manic, and able to take responsibility, be honest, and want to learn. Fantastic qualities!
Haha stage actress Miriam Margolyes eats a raw onion everyday - she did it on a TV program 🤣
which totally proves the point he made
The interviewer here is just so a loves ...
Do you mean aloof?
@@thedevilhimself8521 I'm sorry but I don't believe in the devil so I can't hear you .....
@@magneticgenetic198 interesting isn’t it then, that you would respond to someone that you cannot hear.
@@thedevilhimself8521 I'm sorry, what did you say ?
@@magneticgenetic198 there you go again
Ahh.. nice little surprise youtube nugget☺️
Ok I’m supposed to challenge the argument but not the person. Fair enough. However… I found it a rather sad set up. Deren was wonderful in the way that he took all the questions seriously and engaged with and provided honest and well thought through answers. What made more impressive was that the interviewer didn’t seem to have bothered to begin by engaging with him on a human level. She launched straight into the important questions she had planned, in a rather intellectual way. Slowly though she appeared to be enjoying the conversation and had forgotten her agenda
She's likely a student herself and likely nervous to interview a celebrity who is also quite intelligent. Remember that this is a university, where people are learning how to become professionals, and that she is not a profesional interviewer.
Empathy.
Fun fact: Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott once famously (and unprovoked) ate a raw onion as if it was an apple. Was Tony placed under hypnosis by Derren?
Did the interviewer wear a blue polka dot dress as a reference to the assassination of Stephen Fry?
the interviewer says "you know" a lot
say 'um' a lot too ...
I think she's really good
Leave her alone, she’s young and will go far
She's obviously a bit nervous to be interviewing Derren. Can't say I blame her, I'd be super nervous too!
@@Itskilo then you need to get out more, she is absolutely dreadful.
I expect that was he says about compliance will completely pass the Covidian collaborators by, similarly mass hypnosis
Strange how some of the allegedly 'brightest minds' fell for it en-masse. I'll never forget the attitudes they had, and really cringe now they're realising. No matter of backpedalling will uninject them, or earn my respect. It's a lose/lose situation.
Chinese batflu is irrelevant to independent critical thought
Derren was surprisingly incoherent in this interview
He's basically explaining Eckhart tolles teachings
I would agree there is some crossover. I have not read Echkhart's books, but have seen some videos and some writings, but I think there's a lot more that's different and unique about Derren's speaking points. Also, Derren and Eckhart are fulfilling completely different roles, and have different intentions.
Tolle stole everything from Buddhism. Wake up. 🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍
Don't bother reading them
Very impressed with the interviewer
Sarcasm, right? You surely cannot be serious
Where are the audience's masks?!
What's the point in all these vaccines if we carry on acting like it's March 2020?
This is England.
I wasn’t impressed with the interviewer. She didn’t appear to do much research on Daren but thanks to Daren he pulled it off well. I’ve seen every show of Darens on RUclips some 2 or 3 times over and think he is the best performer l have ever seen . I’m in my 70s so have seen many.
At least they get his name right
Seems you haven't done much research in spelling his name correctly!
Derren
I mean, erm!
Not bad but what a waste of an interviewer, clearly doesn't actually have an interest in Derren or what he does, asking long, incomprehensible questions and unable to speak properly without 'like' 'sort of' 'you know' 'and'. How she gets a position like this is beyond me.
Both of them keep on saying "sort of". It's doing my head in. Whose mirroring who?
I am an ardent Derren Brown fan, of his books and stage shows etc. However, this was boring. Mainly because of the banal questions from the interviewer and the audience, but also because I don't think the interview situation is his medium. I switched off half way through.
um um um
She is dreadful! Er um like ya know kinda sort of...all read from a list, no engagement, no interaction, wooden dull rambling.
Get a better interviewer.
tricky upbringing.... jajajaj
A very poor interview.
This didn't really do or give anything to anyone already having insight in the matter discussed. DB is a showman following same scripts as the targets and the audience - lest we forget - however fluently he seems to be doing the edited nonsense debunking on the side; this being obvious as the simplest encore questions seem to put him on the spot making him uneasy or frankly unable to produce coherent and fluid answers. The skillset he shows doesn't necessarily demand for any deeper understanding or knowledge regarding the human mind, just a baseline to follow when emphasizing the use of a sound epistemology while opening up the dubious truthclaim that's being processed. Rationality isn't rocket science.
rotflol @ 'sbould've been beaten up a lot earlier'! Empowering self/abnegation/denigration in the moment. The perfect WobblyMan
This should have been a lot less boring. Or should it? ;)
He absolutely does use stooges. Look at the video of him trying to get someone to turn around from a distance... the woman that does is interviewed after, and is clearly an actress. Most people grin when a camera is pointed in their faces, she didn't even smile, just kind of scowled, she was acting.
1. Some people may not think themselves photogenic, so may not be accustomed to being in front of a camera
2. The woman in question was likely slightly confused by the whole experience
3. He explained that using stooges or actors would decrease both the quality and realism of his work, so there would be no self-serving purpose in using stooges or actors
@@iseedamoon2756 Look up his "predicting the lottery numbers debunked" to see how trustworthy he actually is. Penn and Teller have a long standing feud with him for using stooges and camera trickery.
OF COURSE he said using stooges would decrease the quality and realism. That's a trick to make you think he doesn't use stooges or camera trickery. You were tricked by it. It works.
He doesn’t use stooges. I’ve been to lots of his shows and was even chosen for one of his demonstrations.
He's a showman, outside of the theatre employees and editing are standard
@@guineapigcuteness6887 Not all tricks require all participants to be stooges. Man, why are people so gullible?
HE NEEDS A NEW ACT
This conversation made no sense whatsoever, all I saw was a gay man wrestle with his sexually and a young uni student get quite flustered by this older, dapper gentleman. 😂
Derrens perspective on the human psychi is fascinating but this was more of a lesson on animal attraction than hypnosis. Im sure they were both thinking about each other quite intensively that night. Isn't the imagination wonderful. 😅
This guy does not know the first thing about hypnosis. Stage hypnotists do a great deal of damage to a legitimate modality of healing. Get a real reasercher on this subject and not a charlatan.
39:33 covid mass hypnosis 101
I love Derren, but let's entertain the following thought: what is more likely, that Derren really can hypnotise people into perceiving he is invisible, or that he simply bribes those same people to act as such and his outward disdain for stooges and frauds is just part of a long and consistent con to convince us that he is, in fact, the real deal?
There's a trick he did in one of his earlier series: Crowd in the street. Ask for volunteers. One guy comes forward but Derren tells him he's not the right personality type. Picks another volunteer but tells the disappointed guy that he can still use him. Tells the volunteer that she's going to read the guy's mind. Following his instructions, she tries to guess his computer password. She first has to guess the first letter - which she does. The guy reacts with shock, Derren tells her to stay focussed. She guesses the word and the guy says 'yes'. She freaks out. There are only two ways that can be achieved, and one of them is psychic powers. If you can't figure out the other one, then you shouldn't be allowed to vote.
(not you as in you, personally, obviously)
the former
@@olaf_biscuit1711 Everything Derren does can be achieved by trickery. Obviously it's made to look impossible in the edit. For example maybe the password was written down on a sheet of paper but this was edited out.
@@mbcx9ts2 I see, so Derren picks a random guy in advance, steals his password, hypnotises him to attend some street magic and volunteer to be part of it. Then Derren picks a real volunteer and plants the password inside her brain - because he can do that, definitely - and makes her say it. True, that's much more likely.
Brown and cream makes for such a boring video background... no wonder the oxford union is so much better they actually think about that kind of stuff.
I am seeing so much injection damage, its horid
Eh?
@Monya GalHe's not an actor. People kill themselves because life is complicated and hard and people succumb to all sorts of mental illness, not because they're hypnotized. If you don't like his type of entertainment, don't watch him. It is your choice.
@Black Lesbian PoetHe's not an actor. People kill themselves because life is complicated and hard and people succumb to all sorts of mental illness, not because they're hypnotized. If you don't like his type of entertainment, don't watch him. It is your choice.
@Monya Gal See, there you go again, making no sense at all. What science says we are all actors? Absolute trot.
is the interviewer transgender? If so it makes the questions/answers even more interesting from that point of view
just me or does he look ill
'Left behind the Superstitious World'...Most deluded Idiots have yes...
Theology is the highest Science.
“Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?”
― G.K. Chesterton, Magic: A Fantastic Comedy In a Prelude and Three Acts
“Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.”
― G K Chesterton, Magic
“There is no bigot like the atheist.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Magic: A Fantastic Comedy In a Prelude and Three Acts
This comment reminds me of the notion that any statement in the affirmative or negative, includes in itself, its opposite. So if you say that you are a believer in religion or God or if you take the polar opposite view that religions are false and there is no God -- you are in effect, in both cases, espousing the very same concept - just in opposite directions - like the two faces of the same coin. This points to the uncomfortable truth (for some) that believers and atheists have more in common than they would like to admit. The deeper truth from a human perspective may sound something like -- "I don't know", but many of us find that very hard to accept.
@@djl3009 totally incoherent comment. "Espousing the very same concept"... "just in the opposite direction". Opposites are opposites not the same. A "deeper truth" from a "human perspective" cannot be a lack of knowledge. Completely incoherent statements, the whole thing.
@@djl3009 The Atheist tells the Theist that he is an idiot.
The Theist tells the Atheist that he is an idiot.
Indeed . . . two faces of the same coin, both equally certain of their positions . . . both equally enamoured that there position is not merely a personal belief, but is the absolute truth.
"Theology is the highest science" No, it is not.
Theology is NOT a science. I also reserve the right to disagree with G K Chesterton.
All white audience
Except the one black guy stuck up next to Darren 🙄
Trying to hypnotise someone to push another human being off some height??? Really? How ethical is that?? Just reading a book on demons - is this a coincidence? - and I can smell a demon lurking around this man. Irrespective of how entertaining he might be.....
Nothing to do with ethics, and everything to do with how pliable we are, and how, given the right situation and context, we could easily be the Nazi guard that we would insist we never would be.
He’s helped more people than he’s harmed.
Nobody was actually pushed off a building.
@@tchai91 you mean like what's happening in the world right now?
Oh ffs. There are no demons. Come on now.
@Monya Gal you should seek help.
1:06:19 - Almost 100% white apart from the dude alone at the back and the mic dude at 24:32
Why don't you write a letter of complaint...
Well, the UK population is 97% white, so "almost 100% white" isn't so surprising.
@@MrEnterthehole yup
@Monya Gal Racist
@@jrd33 87% of people in the UK identify themselves as white.
Wow. You have the cheek to claim using stooges is "artistically repugnant" when you used cheap camera tricks to "predict" the lottery.
You're an amazing showman, Derren. But you debase yourself at times. Please don't try to take the high ground.