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Professional pickpocket Apollo Robbins on the art of misdirection

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Sleight-of-hand artist Apollo Robbins steals things for a living. In this captivating TED video, he explains how treating people’s attention as a limited resource keeps him employed.

For more from Robbins on the nature of human attention, see his instructional video on how to steal someone’s watch.

https://gizmodo.com/pickpocket-master-apollo-robbins-reveals-how-to-steal-s-5975788

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