Apollo Robbin's Secrets of pickpocket, who was reborn as a 'businessman'

 Apollo Robbins, It is the stage name of a magician. Started out as a magician. He is now the author of a thesis with a project that researches one-man shows, police training, and human cognition.

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He always wears a neat suit and kindly extends his hand.

He is a pickpocket who unknowingly steals his opponent's pockets defenselessly.

Calls himself a “gentleman thief”, He gives everything back to someone he doesn't even know has been stolen.

His unusual trajectory and twists and turns resemble those of a businessman who sells himself as a business item.

Without any help, even without the intention of starting a business, he was able to get to where he is today by constantly developing and promoting himself.

So in this article! We'll take a look at the life of Apollo Robbins and show you how he turned the art of crime into magic, art and tactics.

The cliffs are endless and he was originally born with a disability:

His mother remarried to the pastor of the church she attended.

The unborn child between the two is doomed to grow with a cancerous mass lodged in the womb.

He is diagnosed with a condition that his mother could die while giving birth to him, and even if he did give birth to a baby, he would suffer brain damage and become ill. At the time, doctors advised his parents to have an abortion.

As diagnosed, he had to wear an orthosis on his leg as soon as he was born.

He was born with his legs slightly folded outward and his feet slightly twisted.

Fortunately, with the help of a rehab therapist, this child regains strength in his limbs and is freed from his leg aids at the age of five.

It is fortunate that his family was in a state of disrepair because of the poverty that was torn apart.

Since then, the child has mastered the feat of using his body at random.

He also learns martial arts, rides a unicycle and practices skills like juggling himself.

In addition, the two older brothers with a large age gap were active as pickpockets early on (!), and the child learns pickpocketing skills from the two older brothers and becomes a troublemaker (?) running around the neighborhood.

Apollo Robbin's dream of being a magician:

A middle school student who was robbed and ran away from home, started learning magic seriously at the age of 15.

Then, the lover I met in high school dropped out of school after having a child.

For a while, he works as a cartoonist, salesman, telemarketer, and other jobs to earn money.

Eventually, at the age of 22, he takes his family and settles in Las Vegas.

He only dreams of being a magician. Unfortunately, it was a series of bad luck.

He continues to be unable to find work and becomes so destitute that he sells magic books at home.

Eventually, the wife takes her son and leaves to another area.

Shocked at this time, he stutters his words and is frustrated that his life is over.

 

A job comes to Apollo Robbins:

He was standing on the stage of a restaurant performance in a club where travelers were taking a break.

Of course, he was only on a temporary job filling the vacancy for two weeks or so.

Moreover, the night he first appeared on the stage, he got into another misfortune.

Robbins tried to establish his position with magic using his hand skills.

One of the audience members who was watching the show that day is upset that his ring is missing...

Ring with diamonds and sapphires. The guest and the party threatened to call the hotel security, accusing the young magician of stealing their jewelry. What did Apollo Robbins say?

“Sir, please don’t go like this. Because. If I had a ring, I could completely hide it while you were away to call the guard.”

“Obviously I know how the guests feel. Please allow me to look for you in front of the guests. If I delete the option that I stole the ring, you might come up with something else.”

Recalling the time, Robbins explains that this statement is an old selling technique.

He added that it was a way to improve the situation by never reacting negatively, but by agreeing with the other person and giving advice.

This event prompted Robbins to work as a full-time magician until the restaurant went out of business in 2002.

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However, the experience of this period was also a decisive moment for him to have no choice but to agonize over his career.

“Also, magicians from all over the world often asked me, ‘How are you doing? It was hard work not having anything to say to them. I want to clearly express what I am doing.”

“I couldn’t tell you what the difference was compared to normal pickpocketing.”

When the restaurant went out of business in 2002, Robbins vowed to become an unparalleled pickpocket.

He goes to various corporate events and presents several performances featuring the game of fraud and cheating. The purpose was not to deceive, but to show.

Team of talented gangsters:

The team is made up of gangsters in jail at the time, dexterous friends like Gary Scott and the dealer, and the Las Vegas police who were primarily responsible for those pickpockets.

A team with a unique composition was created with the suggestion of 'Let's do a performance that makes the public aware of the mechanism of pickpocketing'.

 

In their first performance with 250 people in front, they ran into difficulties in their performance and failed to demonstrate the practice of pickpocketing on stage.

In the end, the team is disbanded after going through the process of hiding and arresting the team members. Robbins recalls that he was discouraged by this at the time.

 

 

The man who stole the president's secret: 

 

Already famous for the 2001 episode in which Apollo Robbins stole the secrets of former US President Jimmy Carter.

He hears that former President Carter is coming for dinner. Naturally, the president's aide or restaurant manager urged him not to do anything out of the ordinary.

However, the president's calendar was in his hand.

When Apollo Robbins wiggles around a copy of the itinerary, the aides immediately rummage through their pockets.

Not only that, of course, but after the aides badges, wristwatches and even car keys were gone.

They say the only thing they didn't touch was a gun. Besides, they weren't just aide, they said they were the Secret Service Special Forces responsible for protecting former President Carter.

At that time, he was recognized for his talent rather than being disciplined. He gets a new opportunity to be appointed as Security Adviser.

Apollo Robbins, an irreplaceable figure in public eye:

He collaborated with CIA agents and professors of psychiatry to conduct sensory cognitive training and consulting.

This fame has made him appear on TV shows and even train movie stars.

As these exchanges increased, he heard from scholars how to deceive humans, and why they were deceived.

On the other hand, he proposed a new topic to scientists and participated as a co-author of a paper.

He also has the knowledge to explain his own pickpocketing skills with scientific and concrete concepts such as careless blindness*, misunderstanding confusion*, etc.

Apollo Robbins learned what his own talents were and what enemy foundations he had, and he gained a 'frame' to describe his own activities in a whole new way.

 

Apollo Robbins, “How humans work”:

There are two main comments about how he felt that he was an accomplished businessman rather than the usual pickpocket or magician.

When asked if he was revealing his magic tricks too much, he replied:

“It doesn't matter that people know how I work. Even knowing in advance that I'm working my magic as a pickpocket. Still people don't notice. “Even if they try to get my hands on me, I’m watching them too.”

In other words, as his initial promise, he has already become a pickpocket that no one can follow, so he explains his performances in detail.

He got to the point where he studied the principle. He did not simply sell performances, but understood the principles of performance as a product.

Expand your business into new areas where you can apply the principles, such as security, training, and cognitive science.

His obviously solid skills and understanding of it allowed him to expand freely into the various fields in which he was capable, rather than defining himself only as a magician.

 

Apollo Robbins, a "terrifying" businessman:

 

Also, when asked why he does magic by stealing, he replied:

 

“Theft is to me an experiment to play with human interactions.

 

Looking back, this little experiment taught me how humans work.

How to deal with stress and how to be confident.”

“If you ask me why I’m stealing, it’s just my way of communicating with people.”

Essence of businessman:

I applied it not only to the performance of my work, but also to all areas I could reach from the beginning to the end of my work.

I found craftsmanship, pride, ingenuity, and a means of life in the business, not just making money. He is a terrifying businessman.

The person no one can withstand is the flexible and terribly enjoying person, isn't it the realistic Don Quixote?

Looking back at the life of Apollo Robbins, I think about what it takes to adapt to the world as a commodity and survive, and the essence of a 'businessman'.