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April 24th, 2021
- @maybegray status workshop
- intro questions in case you forget
- what inspired you to be here today?
- what's your improv experience?
- creativity
- ...hm!
- teamwork
- openness to agreement - yes, and
- momentum
- improv relies on building momentum
- supported by
- spontaneity
- physical movement
- spectrum from right to rightest
- "welp, that was the least right thing I could have done"
- what feels right, what feels righter/rightest?
- (connects with everything makes sense - if something had been wrong, you wouldn't have done it)
- "aww - tada!"
- really embody the shame etc
- then like, nobody intends to do the least right thing, so you say "tada!"
- status game # 1
- 3 experts on a science panel
- 2 moderators
- everyone competing to seem smartest
- "how did it feel to compete for high status in your little imaginary situation"
- Priya also owned the "I'm the assistant" in a way that didn't particularly lower her status, like "I do all his thinking, that's why we've gotten so far" is a playful high-status move in and of itself
- also a great callback to "why we needed no introduction" - made the fact that they hadn't said much yet better be evidence towards high status
- resourcefulness
- build up a subconscious inventory of what's already been said
- status game # 2
- competing for low status on artist panel
- great name pronunciation move
- moderator couldn't pronounce artist's name, repeats a dozen times
- artist defers "don't worry about it"
- Kushaan twitter - his 10 followers vs others' 100s
- lowered everybody's status
- Nat > I could have played fool there and said "I have 12. happy to offer advice"
- status game # 3
- spiritual panel
- secret status mission - low-middle-high
- idea I had
- I think it would be hilarious to do a round that's overtly the same as this one but actually has everyone trying to be medium status (maybe with 4 people and you have them all trying to be 2nd highest or all trying to be 2nd lowest)
- other idea - invert it - only the hosts know other peoples' status assignments, and the guests have to deduce their own status
- consistency communicating high status
- eg Mage's academic, AJ's moderator
- maintaining status by speaking to the environment that you want to be stable
- meta status game of finding the place in the world where you win
- media very related to status
- My Fair Lady
- Gatsby
- @maybegray > interesting tension & connection between
- trusting that a person is who they say they are
- trusting them to be trustworthy in some other sense
- Nat Sharpe > status is a game - if you're not having fun with it, what are you doing
- status of dominance/submission, vs prestige etc
- Will Ferrell's Sensitive Drill Sergeant
- the thing where cats lick rabbits and both think they're getting the better part of the deal
- couples where both people feel "wow I'm so lucky to be with you"
- both have more admiration/attraction to the other than their own esteem
- (which doesn't necessarily require having low self-esteem, it could mean having high self-esteem and ultra-high other-esteem)