Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. Too often we take our construct of reality as an absolute and what I’m trying to point out for most people is it’s important for us to know what we don’t know. There’s a great quote by Albert Einstein and it says that reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. You have said your goal isn’t to hurt people or bewilder them but to challenge their maps of reality. I work a lot of high-profile parties where there are celebrities or VIP clients. I’ve stolen from (former NBA star) Charles Barkley and some other sports figures. Ironically, I ran into them at an airport and she pointed out to Ben, ‘This is the guy who stole my ring’ and that’s how I met Ben. She’s a good sport when she found out it was missing. When I was performing at that event, she had just received an engagement ring and I didn’t know it was from Ben Affleck. She worked on a show called Alias and I would do the wrap parties for the show. After, Carter said, ‘Aren’t you guys supposed to be protecting me?’ The Secret Service asked me how I compromised the training they had and that’s what started me moving into training and away from performing.ĭid you also steal from actress Jennifer Garner?
And I searched and got their credentials, the keys to the motorcade, their itinerary and a couple of their watches. I approached the Secret Service agents where they were secured at different doors. My manager pulled me from my traditional role and said I could steal from the Secret Service, so I did. The manager pulled me aside and they didn’t want me to shake Jimmy Carter’s hand because they were afraid it would make the news if I stole from him. Jimmy Carter was going to be coming through with his Secret Service detail. I was at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and I was performing at a show there. Tell me about picking the pockets of Jimmy Carter’s Secret Service Agents I design training a lot - anything inside the space of deception, attention and awareness. A lot of my work now is between speaking and consulting. The pickpocketing was a vehicle for me to learn about people. People would say, ‘Hey, there’s that Apollo kid.” That’s where the name generated from. When I was around 13 or 14 and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name Apollo on it. It’s a nickname that was given to me while I was in junior high. Here is an edited Question and Answer interview. Robbins talked to the Toronto Star from his home in Las Vegas. Earlier this year, Apollo performed before a TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference audience, opening his act The Art of Misdirection by suggesting that it’s often the things right in front of us that are hardest to see.
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