Practical exercise
Five minute mirror eye contact drill
Most Pakistani students lose eye contact within ten seconds of starting a sentence; eyes drop, voice drops, the room loses you. You will spend five focused minutes in front of a mirror, holding your own gaze while you speak. It is awkward on day one and almost magical by day five.
15 min·starter
Now try it
Five minute mirror eye contact drill
Stretch
After five days, do the drill once with a sibling sitting two metres away instead of a mirror. Holding a real human's gaze for five minutes is the next level. Most adults cannot do it.
Goes into your portfolio
The doc eye-contact-log with at least five dated entries, each naming the moment of greatest urge to look away and one word feeling after the drill.