Derren Brown's Boot Camp for the Brain
5.0/5
Critic Rating
Derren Brown gets into your brain...and reveals how to make it work better. Do you ever make mistakes? Do you ever lose your temper and then immediately regret it? Are you impulsive? Do you make great plans which you fail to act on? Do you ever behave irrationally? Don’t worry, it’s not your fault. Your brain is to blame. Extraordinary though it is, your brain is riddled with biases, blind spots and other cognitive weaknesses which can lead you seriously astray. But Derren Brown’s Boot Camp will help you tame your errant brain and fundamentally change the way you think. In eight episodes, packed with gripping real life stories and cutting edge science, the series takes you into the deeper recesses of the mind, to reveal what’s going on, identify the bits which tend to go wrong and show you how to repair them. Along the way it discloses the secrets of some of Derren’s spectacular tricks of the mind. A 7digital production for Audible Originals.
Critic Reviews
Score: 4.9
Alexi Duggins • The Guardian • Mar 4, 2022
"...it’s a beautifully produced, soothing listen, full of illuminating interviews with expert talking heads. "
Score: 5
David Levesley • GQ (UK) • Mar 20, 2021
"The podcast is, in many ways, a natural continuation from what he did before: a way of proving, through charm and wit, that our perception of an event is wrong. But as part of that conversation Brown touched on something fascinating: how to let someone know that what they believe is wrong, a skill perfected from years of teaching the nation that what he'd just done in front of them was make-believe."
Score: 5
Miranda Sawyer • The Guardian • Mar 13, 2021
"Magic man Brown is wonderfully OTT in his presentation of this podcast, his voice swooping and emoting all over the shop. It’s great fun. Occasionally, Brown reveals some of the science behind his tricks, but it’s his script that makes the show, plus his verve in delivering it. Highly enjoyable."
