21 people suffer serious burns walking over hot coals at Tony Robbins event

[terry78]

http://news.yahoo.com/21-burned-walk-over-hot-coals-robbins-event-202003508.html

Power of the mind my ass.

 

[socool]

I don't know what the people who walked across the coals were expecting to happen...

 

[StrainedEyes]

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[The Question]

You can walk across coals without getting burned, it has to do with sweat and the relatively low heat of coals and how fast you walk.

It's pretty easy to do it wrong and hurt yourself, though.

 

[Piper Maru]

Tony Robbins hungry.

 

[Duke]

Stupidity at it's finest.

 

[Sawyer]

Pffffft.... amateurs.

 

[Backstreets]

Goes to show you, You can motivate people to do anything...

Skin and heat do not mix.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, you know, walking on hot coals isn't necessarily a new concept or anything. This seems more like an isolated fail than anything else.

 

[Dr.]

You can walk across coals without getting burned, it has to do with sweat and the relatively low heat of coals and how fast you walk.

Indeed. The participants would have been better off understanding the physics of the phenomenon rather than the psychology of "motivation."