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Cold reading techniques pdf Continue Cold reading is one of the basic skills for aspiring minuscule. In this section I'm going to show you 3 ways to read cold. Like everything it takes a lot of practice to get good at it, but its definitely one of the skills you need if you want to know how to become a miser. Cold reading is a classic trick traditionally used by the psychic, but has its place in the mentality if you so desire. You can use cold reading elements in your act. Cold reading usually works using carefully crafted language and paying attention to your subject responses. It can also be used as a mind-reading trick one. Using Shotgun Statements is the first part of a cold reading and it's called shottgunning or using a shotgun statement as it responds to the use of a lot of general information, so something is sure to hit someone. Much like a shot gun shoots a lot of pellets instead of a single projectile. The point here is to be pretty vague but generic, so you get a hit from the audience. You don't want it to sound too, obviously vague as you are a man or a woman that's far from egregious and won't fool most people. Instead say something like you recently lost an elderly relative or someone named John is very dear to you. These are very vague and will probably hit someone in the audience, and for them it will probably feel very personal. 2. The use of Barnum Statements Using Barnum Statements (named after PT Barnum) these statements, which seem personal but will apply to many people. Barnum statements rely on the phenomenon of people wanting to believe and looking for information that suits them if they fill in the gaps horoscopes use exactly the same principles. They offer information that seems to be quite personal but can really relate to anyone. Readers eager in wanting them to be true helps them read between the lines and search in their history for recent events as it may be relevant. The difference between the horror of the sphere and the normal cold reading is there is no feedback in the horror-sphere where, as in normal cold reading you have the interaction and can assess where to go next after the reaction of the subjects. Again these statements are used very widely and can be applied to anyone and tend to have a large area of open finished, which can then be used to narrow the box and appear to be more accurate. The example of barnum statements is perfectly illustrated in the Orsen Welles video, which you can find later on the page. Something like the ages of 13 to 15 you've been through a dramatic change is a perfect example of Barnum's statement. It seems very personal, but in fact it can be applied to everyone. I mean all in 13 to 15 will go through a dramatic change to it called puberty. A huge experiment that was conducted on the students where they got a piece of paper. Paper. was written on a piece of paper it was supposed to describe a particular student and 90% of them when asked if what they got described them they agreed with. Then they had to change what they had with someone else, and to their amazement they found that they had the same description. Everyone got the same description, but 90% of people thought it was a tailor written for them. The description, of course, was entirely made up of Barnum's Statements. 3. Summary / Reuse information that they have already confirmed earlier to read and feed it back to them. Once you've started talking about the topic and made a few hits using Barnum statements listen to what they say. If they mention something specific or something you can draw a conclusion from what they say, don't recognize it instead save it for later and use it and watch them be shocked about how personal you can be. 4. Choose the right item While you don't always have control over it in situations you want to use it to your advantage. Choosing the right subject is important, as mentioned earlier 90% of students in the Barnum statement example thought that reading was for them specifically which means that 10% did not. You want someone who is receptive to the proposal and not too many skeptics to start with this will dramatically increase your chances of success. 5. Use negatively loaded statements Use statements that both win. So talk about situations where opposites agree and human behavior is an integral part. So to speak, when your at a party you are an extrovert and life and soul party, but when your home is on your own you are much more introverted. 6. Changing your meaning there are basically two strategies in cold reading to deal with not getting hit and getting the information wrong first is to change your value second is to play the game of blame. If you make a statement, you will either get hit or flip it around and get hit. We hope your subject will help you do that. If, for example, you say John means nothing to you and they think and say no, but Joan does just go to this to say yes and claim to be a hit. 7. Play the blame game Even if you are wrong, don't let it try and word it a little differently or work in a slightly different meaning. Or tell them they're wrong to sit down and think about it, and then move on to the next question. Cold Reading Examples Just to illustrate the idea that by practicing 3 cold reading skills here that you will get better at watching this amazing video of Orsen Welles about the day he pretended to be psychic is a great understanding of cold reading. All day he pretended to be a fortune teller. In the video, he talks about how warm up the socker about things they don't think you might know but everything you talk about would have happened to most people in some some some For example, between the ages of 13 and 15 you have gone through a big change in your life it gets quite a lot of laughs as it is quite obvious to everyone that they have gone through changes during that time, but when it is told the goals they feel it is personal. It also says use you have a scar on your knee as almost everyone will have a scar on your knee. If you see any scars on your head, then you're probably pretty safe to say something like when you were younger, you hit your head very hard. Once you warm up the target and hit a few predictions correctly they tend to believe that you can read the thoughts and loosen up and give away a lot more with their body language and save a lot more room for errors in your predictions. Once you warm up someone you can say: You have a brother and it will be a complete miss, but they would say: No I have a sister and think you got hit or I always wanted a brother and you continue from there with additional information that they just fed you. With his very short time of luck saying that he becomes a closed eye (a man who considers himself). It gives a great example of being a night clerk and saying what a person is doing and if they are suitable for staying at your hotel, judging by what the person's details say, staying at your hotel first you will make mistakes and it will take some time to put down all the evidence and decide if that person can stay at your hotel and eventually you will become so good at picking ques that you don't even think about. Basically the nanny does all the work, trying to do what Joe says fit and throwing away a lot of information, so somewhere there's a fit. They also speak about Barnum's statements, a statement that can clearly apply to many people such as you have a bad knee statement. Finally Derren Brown and Richard Dawkins discuss and dissect the cold reading Although I would say that cold reading in many ways you may have seen from psychics is not the way you would apply it being a minuscule there are certainly a few principles that you can learn from. If you want more tutorials of mentality you could look at our selection of books on the mentality to keep looking back at the site or clicking on the link offered for some of the best mentality books a set of techniques used by mi mentalities, psychics, fortune tellers, and environments This article is about communication techniques. For theatrical learning techniques, see cold reading (theatrical). 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