status

@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
- rabbit-cat compatibility
  - 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)
  - twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1305636982563901440
  - twitter.com/Mellow_Mizz/status/1305904003184816131
  - twitter.com/bigdyl618/status/1366904630794403849