Game 7: Video Detector

Objective: Develop objective bodily self-awareness, seeing your own low-status “tics” that normally go unnoticed by you.

Players and Roles

Choose a phrase and repeat it in front of the camera trying to be firm.

Option A (Work): “I want to talk about my salary. I have brought results and I think I deserve a review.”
Option B (Neighbor): “Turn down the music, please. It is 1 am and I have to sleep.”
Option C (Couple): “I don’t like you speaking to me in that tone in front of my parents.”
Option D (Social): “I won’t go to that dinner. Thanks for inviting me, but I don’t feel like it.”

Put the mobile to record (medium shot, hands visible).
Simulate a tense situation for 1 minute:
- Option A: Ask for a raise.
- Option B: Tell a neighbor to lower the music.
Analytical Viewing: Watch the video without sound first. Look for:
- Do you touch your face/hair? (Appeasement).
- Do you move your feet/legs? (Flight).
- Do you divert your gaze at the end of sentences? (Submission).
Write down 1 thing to correct and repeat the recording trying to freeze that tic.

Do you look like you thought you were? (We usually believe we are firmer than we are).
What does your chin do? (Up = Arrogant, Down = Insecure).

Keep the “before and after”. The improvement in a single session is usually brutal.