Are you game?
As fall comes around the corner, and I am relegated inside again, I find myself asking myself what it is I would like to do — to keep me busy over the long winter months.
Do I want to go into coaching?
Do I want to continue to write my relationship book?
Should I focus on photography?
What do I want to do!
Over and over again, I find my fascination with lie detecting center and paramount on my mind.
Then I test myself again. I see a clip of someone on a show before they tell you the outcome. They say the person is suspected of murder — for 20 years — and within 20 seconds of seeing the accused talk about the situation with no exterior clues — I can tell my husband if they are honest with great accuracy.
And more surprising, and to my support, I am not consistently supporting the media’s call. Like in the last case, a guy was suspected of murdering his wife for 20 plus years. He was tried but not convicted. When I saw the guy talk in the first minute of the show (he talked for 10-20 seconds), I knew immediately the guy was innocent (without a DOUBT) — and that is what the story revealed. Thankfully, I missed the story lead for that story (my DVR cut it off) or I wouldn’t have been able to test myself! The true killer was revealed: BTK (48 Hours Saturday).
It’s been over a year now that I have tested myself. And I have hesitated to call only a handful of people during this year because I suspect they were pathological liars — the hardest to detect. They give me great pause — because either they lack normal emotional responses or they are just strangely honest. But 90% of the time, I hit them on the head. I call people long before anyone around me even has a clue.
It’s chilling at times.
My husband is always surprised — sometimes he freaks out a bit. He says he can’t see anything I see — and he is a bright man — a highly educated engineer. Even when I rewind and play things in slow motion – – if I don’t give him clues — he misses it. He only sees it when I give details explanations.
I have a unique gift, and I so want to bring it out and use it for the good. I just want to be able to do what I am the best at, to enjoy my life — and to help others. I always have fought against injustice. This would just be another way to do it.
Would you be interested to record video snippets of yourselves, upload them to the web — and test me for real?
If you would, I would write up some parameters that you would have to follow to make this a good test. I would make those public.
I’ll do anything right now to test myself without putting myself in a huge spotlight because a huge spotlight would get me all emotional, nervous — and then my lie-dar would fuzz over and freeze!
Are you game?