How to pronounce “mentalis” in English

It's artistically, not very satisfying to smart people.When I see a mentalist present something as though maybe I really have powers, I really go, well, yeah, right.And I think that a lot of people do that.

That's really important, because that means that they understand at a very deep level that there was a trick.And then you get to what's called mentalism, which is the term that magicians use for mind reading.And then it gets sloppy, because even the people who don't say, I can read minds will say, I'm using principles of magic, and psychology,

And they do all of this stuff.And some people would leave the theater thinking after seeing a mentalist act that they had witnessed somebody who was incredibly good at psychology,or incredibly good of memory tricks, or incredibly good at any of that.

Well, the ones that have come in a recent period.And also, we know we considered ourselves to be the experts on mentalism, and talking with the dead.

of competitive chess and we visited chess tournaments like this one. Now, chess is an interesting arena to study because chess has an objective statistical rating system thatChris Chabris: but in a way, a lot of what mentalists do and magicians, of course, is manipulate your attention. So, they manipulate what you're paying attention to and what you're

Not the sort of thing you normally admit to at a public event, but I notice about eight of you perked up there.And the producers put together these genres-- they brought an illusionist, and they brought a comedy act, and they brought a mentalist, and a manipulator,

of competitive chess and we visited chess tournaments like this one. Now, chess is an interesting arena to study because chess has an objective statistical rating system thatI've seen videos of, I don't know how real these videos are, they're from some like, mentalist guy, but he like, pays for things with blank, with like white paper--