Ok I probably shouldn’t blog about some things but hey they are relatively harmless. I spend most tuesdays now in long, painful meetings on super-important stuff that I could tell you about but would then have to kill you. The result is, I have to keep myself amused for hours on end in really dull meetings. So here are a couple of my favourite mind games to keep those meetings interesting and perhaps keep them moving a little.
Shutting down a boring conversation. I’m sure you’ve heard about matching and mirroring - assuming body postures, tonality etc., to get in to rapport with someone. Well when you want them to go away or be quiet, mismatch everything, if they talk quietly, talk loud, if they sit cross legged, then open wide. Amplify this by rocking back and forth ever so slightly, and maybe even hum to yourself. Oh and the icing on the cake - in between eye to eye contact, stare at one particular point on the top of their ear. Anyone who can keep up a train of thought in such environment is probably playing mind games with you too, so bring it on!
Find a point on the ceiling, and whenever other conversations stray in to unwanted territory, subtly and regularly glance up at this point. When you get a chance to talk, be sure to glance up at that point regularly, and couple it with lots of negative words, ie, boring, pointless, dead-end etc. Most people won’t get this consciously but their unconscious minds will, and before you know it you have your own pavlovian experiment with an adverse reaction to subjects that you don’t like. Be sure to reward the doggies when they do good though.
And that’s the end of the mischief today. Have fun and remember, with great power comes great responsibility 
