Made by: Zoey
For today’s class, we learn about Attention, Reality, and Behavior. We start with a TED video, in this video, there is a speaker, who will tell us how to steal others' cash or some stuff, I mean divert others' attention. The speaker first picks a special volunteer from the audience to come on stage, After taking the stage, the speaker tells the volunteer to look at his left hand. When the volunteer looked to the left hand, the speaker put the coin on the shoulder of the volunteer. Because the volunteer is paying attention to his left hand so he will not be able to know when the coin is on his shoulder. The speaker took his wallet, cash, and watch in the same way. During this talk, the speaker actually changed his clothes, but all the people are paying attention to the show and what he says so nobody realized that.
How can we apply what we have learned today in daily life communication? I have an excellent example if one day you find something you want but your parents do not agree to buy it. What you can do is when your mom or your dad has a phone call asks them two or three random questions like. Do you like me? And the answer will be “yes”(unless your parents do not like you). right now their attention is all on the phone call, so they won't be able to think about the question that you asked. What you can do is say the thing you want, and tell them to answer you, probably the answer will also be “yes“. It is an effective way to get what you want from parents, It is effective and influential to make people agree with you because when people pay attention to one thing it is difficult to pay attention to other things. You can do that to influence people's behavior to get what you want.