Mechanical mood modifiers
Just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. Then, online, I saw a few references to using physical actions to influence one's feeling of productivity. (E.g., Merlin pointed to Bert and Jason Womack chimed in.)
It appears that none of these entries mentions one important phenomenon that Gladwell describes: that making a particular emotion-related facial expression can cause you to feel that emotion. (See the subsection "The Naked Face", in the "Bronx" chapter.)
I wonder to what extent trained face-readers and face-fakers can simulate the eagerness and feeling of competence that so often occur during those most productive days.
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