Eye Contact With Drivers
I’ve noticed that when I’m at a stoplight in my car and start looking around at the drivers, most of them are looking forward in this dazed look and would rarely make eye contact with me. Once in a while you catch them, but their eyes quickly dart away. So today, I’m going to start working on getting eye contact with drivers and holding it long enough until they are the first ones to break.
Since visualization is such a powerful mental tool, I was practicing looking at the drivers next to me while imagining that I had Get Smart’s Cone of Silence. It took me a while, but I finally got this woman to look at me. When she did, I waved back and smiled at her. As soon as she saw me do that, she then quickly looked forward again and pretended like nothing happened. I’m not sure who’s more weird now: me or her.
Maybe one day I’ll have enough nerves to start honking my car horn to get their attention, while also sitting in the tension of the car in front of me potentially getting upset. We’ll see how that experiment goes…
Yeah, I also think visualization is very powerful mental tool…