Oz Pearlman (Mentalist): This Small Mistake Makes People Dislike You! They Do This, They’re Lying!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Oz Pearlman, the world No.1 magician, exposes how to read people, build trust, and win attention. From Wall Street to the world stage, he shares secret tricks for mindset shifts and memory hacks. Oz Pearlman is one of the world’s most celebrated mentalists, a top performer on “America’s Got Talent,” and the author of ‘Read Your Mind: Proven Habits for Success From The World’s Greatest Mentalist’. He explains: ◼️The small mistake that instantly makes people dislike you ◼️The psychological trick that makes people say “yes” without realising it ◼️The mind trick that makes anyone instantly like and trust you ◼️The subtle body language cue that makes people ignore or avoid you ◼️How to tell in 3 seconds if someone is lying to you (00:00) Intro (02:39) Can You Read My Mind? (05:38) Card Trick (10:44) How to Know If They’re Lying (14:00) How Do We Get People to Do What We Want? (16:13) Why You Should Take Notes for Everything (18:53) Why the Small Things Matter (23:03) Understanding Human Behaviour (26:24) Name Trick (27:21) How Do You Deal With People Being on Edge Around You? (31:04) Confidence (33:11) What Do You Think About When You're Communicating as an Entertainer? (36:56) How Do You Deal With the Ethics of Misdirection? (40:03) How to Be a Better Active Listener (41:54) When Did It Go Very Wrong? (46:58) How Do You Break the Ice in Social Situations? (47:59) Were You Trying to Make Anyone Else Happy? (49:20) How to Improve Your Memory (50:39) Wrapping Things Up in Stories to Help People Remember (57:42) If You Know This, You’ll Always Hold People’s Attention (59:48) How Important Is Obsession to Reaching the Top? (01:03:21) How to Show Up Better in Your Life (01:09:31) Final Reveal Trick (01:12:07) If You Could Live Forever, Would You—and Why or Why Not? Follow Oz: Instagram - https://bit.ly/3L3HuqL X - https://bit.ly/4o4JDBe You can purchase Oz’s new book ‘Read Your Own Mind: Success Habits You Can Use Every Day from the World's Greatest Mind Reader’ here - http://bit.ly/3WlKSQb The Diary Of A CEO: ◼️Join DOAC circle here - https://doaccircle.com/ ◼️Buy The Diary Of A CEO book here - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook ◼️The 1% Diary is back - limited time only: https://bit.ly/3YFbJbt ◼️The Diary Of A CEO Conversation Cards (Second Edition): https://g2ul0.app.link/f31dsUttKKb ◼️Get email updates - https://bit.ly/diary-of-a-ceo-yt ◼️Follow Steven - https://g2ul0.app.link/gnGqL4IsKKb Sponsors: Pipedrive - http://pipedrive.com/CEO Linkedin Ads - https://www.linkedin.com/DIARY Stan Store - https://stevenbartlett.stan.store for your 14-Day free trial

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0:00.0	If you've ever worked in a startup, you already know it's chaos. It's speed and it is survival.
0:04.9	And now with AI accelerating everything, that speed has only increased. Startups are landing enterprise
0:09.5	deals even earlier than before, but what comes with those deals is regulatory requirements,
0:14.9	something a lot of early stage businesses aren't equipped to handle. And a SOC too, if you know what
0:19.6	that means, isn't always enough.
0:21.8	When having the right kind of security is the difference between making a deal or breaking a deal,
0:26.8	you need to have a plan in place. Vanta, who are a sponsor of this podcast, have an AI and
0:31.1	automation system that makes it easier to meet buyer expectations in just days. And they continuously
0:36.4	monitor your compliance so any future
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0:43.1	and when it's needed. And they've built the fastest and easiest path to get you there.
0:47.5	If you're running a startup in this appeals, you can visit vanta.com slash diary and get a thousand
0:52.7	dollars off. That's vanta.com slash diary for $1,000 off. And the bigger win, your peace of mind. I've spent three decades reverse engineering the human mind to show you how you can use it to know what somebody's thinking when they meet you or if somebody was telling you the truth or lying. So let's do something fun. Imagine that in front of you was an invisible deck of cars. Spread them out in front of you. And now we reach down and imagine you just grab a card at random. Now, look at it. Look at me. Okay, close your eyes. Hold your hand out, please. Now, before you open your eyes, tell us what was that card? Three of diamonds? Open your eyes.
1:28.4	Take a look.
1:32.6	And it's not magic.
1:33.9	I can teach you this.
1:34.9	And these secrets, these habits, they're applicable all throughout life.
1:39.0	Trust me, you don't want to miss the rest of this.
1:41.1	O's Perlman walked away from Wall Street to become the world's leading mentalist,
1:45.2	unlocking the skills we need.
1:46.7	To read people, win trust, spot a liar, and influence anyone.
1:51.1	My whole job is to make you believe that I can read minds, but here is the honest truth.
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