A Pickpocket's Tale: The Spectacular Thefts of Apollo Robbins

This book by Adam Green was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Tim Ferriss. It comes up in conversations about brain health, focus & dopamine. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “this is actually the perfect place for me to just read an excerpt profile of you, which was by Adam Green in The New Yorker.”

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  Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 202301:06:39

  Said during "The World’s Most Famous Pickpocket, Apollo Robbins | The Tim Ferriss Show". The episode features Apollo Robbins: Sleight-of-hand artist, theatrical pickpocket, and attention/deception expert known as 'The Gentleman Thief'; profiled in The New Yorker and a research collaborator with neuroscientists studying attention. Pickpocket Apollo Robbins reveals how attention, misdirection, and deception work, from stealing from the Secret Service to crafting belief.