Pink Discussion: Prompt 2
By lisahuff on May 15, 2008 in Summer Assignment 08
Pink defines “six senses”–the “six essential abilities” he thinks individuals will need to be successful in the 21st Century (4). In Part Two of his book, at the end of each chapter, he offers “a collection of tools, exercises, and further reading…that can help you surface and sharpen that sense” (4).
Choose one suggested tool or exercise, and follow his suggestion. Leave a comment, summarizing what you did. Do you think it was a worthwhile undertaking? Explain.
If you’re feeling adventurous–you might even snap a photo recording your experiment, write a blog post explaining what you did, and embed the photo in your post. You can include a link to your post in your comment.
Source: Pink, Daniel H. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
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After reading the book, I chose the activity on identifying fake and genuine smiles from the portfolio in chapter seven. The test, Spot the Fake Smile, was a ten-minute, twenty-question relaxing adventure. Each question consisted of a four second video of a human, male or female, smiling and two choices of if the smile was fake or genuine. The videos could only be viewed once so I paid very close attention. After answering all the questions, the site asked which facial feature attributed in helping solve the smile quiz. I answered that the eyes were dead give-a-ways. The results stated that I earned eighteen out of twenty correct. The two I got wrong were on both fake and genuine.
This activity will be help in the future as I get back to school and I am around more people that I do not usually spend time together. When these people smile, I will have an 80 percent chance of knowing if the smile is fake or genuine.
I choose an activity that looked interisting in the Portfolio of Empathy. The activity was called Mind in the Eyes Test. I decided to do this one because you always hear the saying ‘the eyes never lie.’ When I did this activity, some of the emotions were hard to find in the pictures of the eyes. After takeing the test I got my score of a 23 out of 36 which is said to be a normal score. A majority of the feelings I got wrong were the nervous feelings like uneasy, cautious, and suspicious. The activity was worthwhile, because I think the exercise helped me realize that even if you think you understand how someone is feeling by looking in their eyes, you may not. I also figured out that the ones i was not unsure about and I got right, are ones i just went with what i felt. Which comes back to feeling empathy for other people.
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When I was looking threw the portfolios in my book trying to figure out an activity to do, I came apone a section called Draw in the Symphony portfolio. I like to draw so I thought I might find an activity to do. Well, I didn’t have time to take a five day workshop so I decided I would try to draw a self portrait using only five lines. Now I’m not the best artist in the world, but my drawing resembles be a little. Ofcourse I only used five lines, so my drawing probably resembles a number of people.
This was a fun exercise, even though I just used 5 lines. I kept trying to figure out ways to make the drawing resemble me a little more. I didn’t work wonderfully, but I did manage to get a face with hair, eyes, and a mouth. Thats pretty good right.
@ Gracie G:
The activity she used seemed like it would be fairly fun too. Sometimes it really can be hard to tell if someone is really smiling or if it’s just a fake. That online quiz seems like a pretty good way to practice up.
I chose to “step on the humor scale” at the end of the portfolio in chapter eight. It required me to check out a test online in order to discover my individual “level of mirth.” The little quiz was simple and enjoyable, with a scale stretching from one to four, one being that you strongly disagreed with the given statement and four being that you strongly agreed, with two and three of course in the middle. An example of the questions on the test was, “I enjoy a good joke.” I strongly agreed. At the end of the quiz I received my results. I landed a thirteen/sixteen for creativity and performance, a ten/sixteen for coping, a sixteen/sixteen for facilitation, and a fourteen/sixteen for humour appreciation. The summary at the end complimented me for finding humour in the the midst of the daily grind and using it as a tool for improving my quality of life.
I do believe it was worthwhile, because I realized that my coping score was a little low, and that I really should work on using humour as a means of managing stress. The results also suggested that I “open up a little,” and learn to feel more free with my sense of humour. I took it to heart.
@Grace G: How fun! I do feel slightly self-concious smiling around you now, I hope it always looks real and you won’t analyze me with your newfound skills.
@Meredith M: I gave the 5-line drawing test a shot. Mine resembles me as much as five lines can, but like you said, the lack of detail makes it possible for it to look like any female. I enjoyed it, though!
@Carisa: I also took the humor quiz and said pretty much the same thing as yours.
@Grace: I tried the smile quiz, but I was not very good at it. I got an 11 out of 20. I thought it would be easier than that to be able to tell, but I was wrong.
I decided to undertake the Spot the Fake Smile Test. I think I should go pro at it cause I did pretty good, I made a 19 out of 20. It was actually kind of easy because all I had to do was look at the eyes and the test wasn’t hard at all. I think this test was a positive thing for me, I hope it will come in handy when dealing with my people and I am sure in some way or form this certain “skill” will.
@Meredith: It’s okay – your not alone. I tried that five line test too and I pretty much resembled a big blob.
@Grace: Me and you should so go into business together. We could be professional fake smile spotters then get rich and become millionares – sounds like a good plan to me
I found an activity in the Portfolio of Empathy. I did the activity Mind in the Eyes Test because people always say the eyes never lie. I thought that the challenge would be a little difficult because I am not usually very good at reading people’s emotions. I can usually only tell if someone is angry, sad, or happy. When I got the results back, I was surprised to get a 23. The website said that a 23 was a normal score to get. A majority of the emotions I got wrong were the nervous emotions like uneasy, skeptical, and worried. I was surprised that I got a lot of the ones right that I was not sure about but if you just go with the emotion you think you see, most of the time you will be right. I thought it was worthwhile because like the saying goes, ‘the eyes never lie.’
When Daniel Pink mentioned taking a test on fake or genuine smiles, I thought it would be fun. I was confident in myself and thought it would be easy to tell if people were faking or actually smiling. The test consists of 20 short videos which could only be played once. After analyzing each video, I had to pick if the person was faking their happy little smiles or actually smiling. Apparently, this was harder than I had thought. I only guessed 50% of the smiles correctly. I realize now that I need some practice on judging smiles. I wouldn’t want anyone to pretend to be smiling around me and not notice them faking.
@Grace G.: After looking over the fake and genuine smiles that I missed, I also found that the eyes just so happen to be a give away.
@Hayden H.: I was not a very good judge on genuine or fake smiling either. I was for sure that I would be able too. It seemed like I guessed all the fake smiles, but I thought that most of the real smiles were fake.
Reading through all of the many portfolios, “Become a Design Detective” caught my eye. I read through what to do and thought to myself, this is simple enough.
I decided to test this while going on my way to the emergency room. Walking through the sliding doors, the first thing I noticed was the big front desk with its two nurses having a look of confusion and worrying. That immediately gave me a bad vibe of “this is not gonna go to well” All of the chairs were empty, and the occasional patients or nurses would run/walk from the back room to who knows where. On top of that, the vibe of the room felt kind of forced into trying to appear happy when everyone knows going into the emergency room is anything BUT happy. I tried to find some other bright sides to it, but that was hard to do considering it was 2 a.m in the morning.
My aunt is also trying to sell her house and she decided to contact her realtor and have her go show some houses while she was waiting. Of course my nosey self got dragged along and we were sappose to see three houses, however, by the time we were done ooo-ing and aww-ing the second one, it had started to rain.The first gave a small yet cozy feeling having different color splashes in every bedroom. The second one was humongo (in other words HUGE) As soon as I walked in, I saw the grand staircase and when I looked up, there was a bright chandelier glinting down at me. We followed the realtor and she showed us the kitchen. It wasn’t as impressive as the first one, having only one oven this time, yet I could’ve promised you that the island in the center was one of the coolest things I have every witnessed. It had this button from somewhere underneath and when you pushed it, 3 tiers rose up. And somewhere beneath that, was a mini refrigerator. We looked at the bedroom and this time there were 5, but they were all painted the same tan color.
Overall, this was a worthwhile experience because by the end of the day, it kinda inspired me to put some of these mental pictures in the back of my mind and if I do decide to take a job as as R-directed thinking architect/designer, this will give me plenty ideas to start off with.
@Hayden H.: I do not think that I would do so good on that test, because most times I cannot tell when my dad is lying on one of his big stories or not. However, I am going to have to go take that test to see how well I do on it, so I can sharpen my skills at detecting people’s emotions through their eyes.
@ Carisa H.: I understand exactly what you mean, and I too need to use a little more humor to help relieve some of my stress. Everyone should enjoy a good laugh now and then.
Pink’s chapter on stories really spoke to me, so I chose to take his advice and write a mini-saga. The mini-saga could only contain fifty words. I thought, “Oh, just fifty words. No big deal!” However, I came to find that writing a mini-saga over fifty words would have been so much easier. I did finally come up with a little story to write that I edited and edited to make it just fifty words. I was so relieved when I got the story condensed to just fifty words, but I was kind of disappointed because I had so much more I wanted to add to it. I guess some times I get just a tad bit carried away.
Writing the mini-saga Pink suggested was a good experience for me, because I knew I had to be creative in order to condense a semi-exciting story into just fifty words. I also discovered that there are just some things that I need to put a limit on, because I was getting so carried away with the story. It was truly a challenge, but I did it.
To check out my story and a little more go to my blog Come Write Out And Say IT at http://starsandthoughts.wordpress.com/ Then click on my blog post My Mini-Saga. (If I knew how to hyperlink this on here I would, but I don’t. Sorry.)
The first of the six senses Pink pointed out was Design. Being on vacation at the beach, I decided to take notice of the design I was around. My condo was first. Both bedrooms were very feminine, one being baby blue and lime green, and the other hot pink and orange. I enjoyed the layout of both, because they were pleasing to my eyes and because they were convenient. However, the bigger design I took notice of was outdoors. I did all of this homework at the beach, for the obvious reason of me wanting to be at the beach. I was reading the design chapter and I noticed the phrase, “Look up from this page and cast your eyes around the room you’re in. Everything in your midst has been designed.” I laughed at first and thought about how I shouldn’t be doing homework at the beach and should probably be in a room, but then I thought about the design of the beach, and how perfect it is. The particular beach I was at is my favorite I’ve ever been to. There is first, the dry sand. It’s so white and pure, especially at seven in the morning, before the crowd comes. The white sand is hard to walk on, quite a work out, but feels amazing on my feet. Second comes the sand that probably got wet about half an hour ago, but isn’t really wet anymore because tides have gone down. Personally, I love this sand because it’s squishy but not slippery, not to mention makes the best sandcastles. The third layer of sand is the sand that the rolling waves are constantly crashing onto. This sand goes from cloud soft to rock hard in a few seconds, which amazes me for some unknown reason. In the middle of and past that sand is the best part. The ocean. This gorgeous artwork is the most complex part of the beach. In this body of water live more organisms than students in my school, yet people ignore that aspect of the creation of it all. The beach to me is the ultimate perfect design.
@Linh:You and I had the same idea, and you approached yours completely different, which was really cool. I like your statement about how the emergancy room tries to look optimistic while everyone knows its bad, because I’ve noticed that about many rooms in the hospital. Kind of humorous
@Kirbi:I loved your mini-saga, and I understand how hard it is to write a story with only 50 words, especially with your McMullin story-telling abilities..
While I was reading the many portfolios, I came across one titled “Be Choosy.” The suggestion mentioned really interested me. “Be Choosy” said, “Choose things because they delight you, not because they impress others. And never let things be more important than your family, friends, and your own spirit.” I considered this when I went shopping last week. When I bought my new clothes, I bought items that I would like and not just items to impress others or make me feel “cool.” Peer pressure is such a big deal for teenagers these days and everyone is searching to do anything to become popular and fit in. These people need to be their self and be happy. Also, this reminded me to keep my family, friends, and faith in front of everything. Nothing that I could ever buy could compare to my family, friends, or God.
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@Meridith: After trying to draw myself with just five lines, I knew te activity was not for me. My face ended up looking like something the first graded I babysit would draw.
@Kirbi: The problem I had was wrapping up the story. I always needed fifteen more words.
So… guys… and… women. I took the Empathy test @ http://glennrowe.net/BaronCohen/EmpathyQuotient/EmpathyQuotient.aspx
and I got the score of 51, which they placed in the high end of average (33 – 52 was average). Most women score 47 and most men score 42. Apparently I’m nice. Empathetic. Whatever.
@ Grace: After reading your discussions on the smile test, I decided to take that as well. AND… I only got eight right. Ah well, we can’t all be detectives.
Also, while I was there, a quiz for “Brain Sex” (no… not that, like gender) caught my eye. Unfortunately, I have a dude’s brain. Dumb Test.
@Rachael: I always knew you had a “dude’s brain” haha! Just kidding. I really would like to take that quiz now to see what kind of brain I have.
At the end of the Story chapter was an idea for writing a “mini-saga.” A mini-saga is a story with exactly 50 words. I chose this activity because I have always wanted to write a book. As I wrote I noticed that 50 words is not very many at all. I had trouble writing the end because I had a limited number of words (about seven) to conclude my entire story. This exercise was worthwhile to me because I learned how to express a large amount of detail with very few words and use my words to imply meaning instead of directly stating it. Plus, I had fun and wrote my very own story. I will try to post it on my blog soon.
@Kirby: You and I had the same idea and the same problem. I usually ramble when I tell stories, and they end up taking forever to tell. I know what you mean when you said you had so much more you wanted to add.
@Meredith, Carisa, Tamara, and Grace: I also tried the five lines drawing because it sounded like so much fun. I somehow got the face to resemble me (if you use your imagination). Try making the lines be more than just one feature. For example, I used one line to draw one eye and a nose.
@Riley: Your description of the beach made me feel like I was on a tropical island! I agree that the best designs are found in nature. Some designers even try to imitate nature in their designs.
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At the end of the Story chapter was an idea for writing a “mini-saga.” A mini-saga is a story with exactly 50 words. I chose this activity because I have always wanted to write a book. As I wrote I noticed that 50 words is not very many at all. I had trouble writing the end because I had a limited number of words (about seven) to conclude my entire story. This exercise was worthwhile to me because I learned how to express a large amount of detail with very few words and use my words to imply meaning instead of directly stating it. Plus, I had fun and wrote my very own story. I will try to post it on my blog soon.
@Kirby: You and I had the same idea and the same problem. I usually ramble when I tell stories, and they end up taking forever to tell. I know what you mean when you said you had so much more you wanted to add.
@Meredith, Carisa, Tamara, and Grace: I also tried the five lines drawing because it sounded like so much fun. I somehow got the face to resemble me (if you use your imagination). Try making the lines be more than just one feature. For example, I used one line to draw one eye and a nose.
@Riley: Your description of the beach made me feel like I was on a tropical island! I agree that the best designs are found in nature. Some designers even try to imitate nature in their designs.
I posted my story, if anyone wants to read it.
http://chocoholic.edublogs.org/
I chose the activity under the sub-title “But Out,” which helps make our lives more meaningful and helps us break through challenges. Pink tells us to make a list of some of the important changes we’d like to make in our lives and what’s keeping us from realizing them. For example,
I’d like to start my summer assignment earlier in the summer, but I like to do other stuff.
Now, go back and change the word but, to the word and. It should sound like this,
I’d like to start my summer assignment earlier in the summer, and I like to do other stuff, so I should try to include my work with my other stuff.
We can do this to all of our problems, and surprisingly, it can help quite a bit.
It also helps us cut down on excuses and can get us into a view of problem solving, which can add meaning to our lives.
When Pink gave me an excuse to eavesdrop, I decided that was a task for me. I didn’t really see how listening in on my mom’s conversations on the phone would be any help on gaining empathy, but I thought what the heck, I’ll try it. I found it was much easier to relate to someone by eavesdropping than actually listening to them. I could see their side of the story. When my mom was talking to someone(I still don’t know who) on the phone, she was telling them how stressed she was about her upcoming yard sale. She never gets stressed in front of me and always tries to keep her cool so hearing her like that, I could almost feel the knots in her stomach. When I thought about it some more and tried putting myself in her shoes, I decided that my mom needed a hug. I thought it was much easier to tell how someone really feels if they aren’t talking to you, and not being able to see my mom’s face made it easier for me to picture the steam coming out of her ears.
@Natanya and Kirbi: I thought really hard about those mini-sagas. It seemed like a really good idea, but I’m too lazy to take the time to jot some stories down and it’s really hard for me to get a point across in so little words. How did you do it?
As I was looking through the portfolios, one of the six senses caught my attention more than the other five, empathy. While looking through the empathy activities, I decided to test my empathy quotient (EQ) on an online quiz. This test consisted of sixty statements, each of which I had to choose if I definitely agreed, slightly agreed, slightly disagreed, or definitely agreed. After I marked my gender and clicked on a choice for each statement, I got my results: I scored a 44 which means I have an average empathy quotient. This was not exactly a surprise to me, for I did not think I was an overly empathic person nor did I consider myself completely thoughtless.
@Keri R.: Hmmm… I might be able to get away with smiling at something you say even if you aren’t funny. Just kidding. Anyways, I decided to take a crack the Spot the Fake Smile test and actually I’m not that bad of a fake smile detector, for I got 18 out of 20 correct. I pretty much just stared at the person’s eyes the whole time to see if they crinkled up and narrowed like Pink said.
@Carisa H.: I decided to give the Humor Test a try and found out I had a creativity and performance score of 9, a coping score of 10, a facilitation score of 14, and an appreciation score of 14. Apparently I have a quieter wit and slow reactions, but I also need to work on my coping skills. Haha
I thought the quiz was pretty adequate and fairly accurate to how I view myself, and I also thought it was worthwhile.
@Krystal
Not much to say but it is kind of ironic that a computer (left brain) is evaluating a quality of our right brains.
@Nathan: Haha. That IS pretty ironic, but it does seem like it won’t be long until someone somewhere develops computers that are not only left-brained, but also right-brained.
So I have not finished the book yet. I m currently at a hotel in little rock using my step-moms computer and hotel wifi. Current events in my experiences have left me apathetic towards alot of things and the two things that are keeping me up are Pink’s book’s suggestion and Eric Clapton’s Unplugged. I tried the activity of taking pictures with my phone of designs that caught my eye. One was a paper straw sleeve that i had fashioned into a hershey’s kiss shape and another was a guys beard that i saw get off a motorcycle with a NOS kit on the side (im not lying a 32oz. cylinder with NOS in it and it was attached to a chopper, that is death on two wheel with an express button waiting to be pushed). His beard was what caught my eye though and it was funny because he just had a normal beard. I thought about taking pictures of the krispy kreme line because if you pay attention they all have a story to tell…or atleast i will make one up for theme. I saw a bunch of pictures in the lobby of my home way from home and thought about taking thier pictures but that just seemed absurd because they already are pictures and if a picture had a picture then that implies that the pictures pictures is a baby and i didnt want to be apart of mating with inanimate objects. But thats my story i took alot of pictures and it did not do a whole lot for me but keep me alive from the threat of death by boredom. If i see something that really inspires me then i will remember it and if i make a mental note and forget then it probably was not important enough…
Music is what makes the world go round. It holds everything together. Anyone from any country, from any culture, or from any religion can understand the simplicity of music. I took a symphonic look into having a whole new mind. I listened to Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
Beethoven mastered the art of music in a way no one to this day has yet to live up to. Every note, chord, and rest is purposely placed to combine together to make a beautiful piece. It would all fall apart if just one instrument was off. The big picture is what we all hear. It should be what we all see too. We should not focus on the little bumps in the road but the long stretch in front of us.
Music is a huge part of my life. Nothing speaks to me like the sound of instruments in harmony. Music always reflects what is going on in the world during that particular time. Symphony will lead us into the future. Music will never die.
@Meredith M.
I love that you tried to draw because my drawing abilities are majorly lacking. Congrats on getting better and better too.
@Carisa H.
I really want to try that quiz now to see how I would do. I think you totally should have scored higher.
@Tamara E.
It is really cool that you can tell the difference between fake and real smiles because I am completely clueless. You should go pro! I would watch you on tv!
@Krystal P.
The empathy quiz sounds pretty interesting. I bet I would do about the same as you. I should probably try and do that.
@Zach:
I like what you did. You told your story with examples and stuff that brought it to life and actually made it interesting for me to read about. Good job!
@Grace: I read your comment first because it was the first…how ironic. I think that it’s cool, this new amazing power you have contracted. I think we all have something like this in our basic instinct, people have a quality that helps them detect feelings and hidden perogotives in situations (i dont think i spelled perogotives right) its almost like a safety feature. I read your last sentence, I will have an 80 percent chance of knowing if the smile is fake or genuine.” and i imagined Dwight Schrute saying it and i laughed like nobodies business.
@Natanya: Okay so i am really ADD maybe even ADHD at times. Which means that i cant read all the comments, which leads me to your comment (the shortest one on the page) that says “here read my story” i was like man this is gonna be good. I clicked on the link that lead me to a chocoholic and i started reading and i was immediatley caught up in the story it was a cure for my ADD and i was excited about it…but i didnt know that it was only 50 words long so i clicked on the heading hoping to open a story that i could read and it was still short and i went back and read your comment and i was like “NO” so im pretty sure you should write your book and ill read it.
I chose to write a mini-saga. My inspiration came from Vincent Van Gogh’s The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum (Yeah, I know it is a weird looking picture but it is my favorite Van Gogh.) I had a hard time keeping my mini-saga to only fifty words, but it was a fun challenge. This was definitely worthwhile; it did not seem like forever to write. The hardest part was making sure you had fifty words, no more, no less. This is something I will probably end up doing if I am on a trip to somewhere, with something that catches my eye.
@ Zach- I like how you entertained your self with taking pictures of random objects and creating a story for them.
@ Riley- The way you described the sand was really good. You gave me a perfect picture of what the sand looks and feels like. Now I want to go back to the beach.
P.S. If anyone is interested in reading my mini-saga the website is http://tnictye.wordpress.com and the is title My Mini-Saga
@Emily: Your right, music is a huge part of our world. I think our world would be soundless without it. Think about movies, the music makes them. It keeps the suspense going in horror films and the romance in love stories. It’s also very calming and can express so much emotion. I agree, music will never die.
@Danielle G.
You are totally right about how music is everywhere and about how it is an amazing way to express emotion. It seems to be what keeps us all together!
I loved the book!! I especially liked the portfolios that were included. Reading along with the book, I tried most all his suggestions.For example, along with grace, i choose to see if i could detect a fake smile from a true, genuine smile. I did ok as to telling other peoples, but with my own, I think it was hard to tell the difference when you are not actuaully trying to smile for a good reason. My face hurt for quite a while. I also tried the laughing excersize. I did a couple of ‘ho ho ho’s’ and a couple of ‘ha ha ha’s’ and then I trully started laughing. My mom came into my rooming thinking i was choking on something i was chewing on. She was very suprised. The i wrote down a few reminders to start my very own journal and to start learning how to draw ( my version of a drawing is using only stick figures). I also put a lot of thought into actually listening to peoples stories, not that i don’t already, but i do tend to talk way to much instead of giving someone else the mic. I read a book called “Wickedly Lovely” and when I came across a passage that read: “Do not thank me. Many humans tend to use that text to much that the word has lost its meaning.” The girl in the book stopped herself from giving to much thanks and only saying the word, and actually looked at the person and showed with her eyes( you can tell a lot from a person by looking at their eyes) and said how she truly appreciated their act of kindness. When i read Pinks portfolio about how we should thank people in our life that showed an act of kindness, i looked back at that novel that i read and thought that i should more likely express with my E0Y0ES, how much that person has offerend in my life enough to show my appreciation. If anything, this book has taught me some great life lessons that i would like to do in the future.
I chose the activity of detecting a fake smile from a genuine smile. I thought this was a very interesting activity! I answered 15 out of 20 smiles correctly. I usually smile and try to be friendly to everyone equally, and when others smile, I tend to look at their teeth, lips, and chin area. After completing this activity, I am now more drawn to look into their eyes to detect the emotion they are truly feeling. This activity definitely caused me to become more “smile conscience”!
I did the five-line self-portrait of myself found in the Symphony section of this book. I found this an interesting way to express myself. When I began drawing, I attempted to draw all of my face, my eyes, my ears, my nose, my mouth, even my eyebrows. However, as I continued I realized the point was not to draw my face, but to draw me. I came to the realization that the point of me drawing my face with a restricted number of lines was almost the same as writing an essay describing myself. What I focused on and what I chose to draw, and even how I drew it demonstrated what I thought was important and also what I thought were important or at least meaningful qualities of me.
@Tamara- I think you should “go pro” in spotting fake smiles. Then you could be one of those detectives or cops even that try and figure out the guilty party in crimes and stuff, it’d be pretty cool. Because of your ability in detecting fake smiles, I think you could definitely hone that and then turn it into detecting other things by simply looking at facial expressions.