If you park in a large parking garage/shopping centre, get out and take a photo on your cell phone of the nearest parking sign (Area B2, etc). You will never lose your car again.
In class, if it's a presentation where someone has to present without looking at notes or anything like that, and while they're up in front of classroom presenting, some people forget what they're talking about, space out, freak out, and lose their train of thought. To counter this, nod your head at the end of each sentence they say, confirming what they're saying. They will somehow use this as a motivator and 9 times out of 10 will keep presenting without fault.
If you're in a crowded social group, restaurant, bar, party etc... and you want to know if someone is checking you out try this:
Turn sideways from them (they will be either 90 degrees right or left of you), then very obviously, look at your watch (even if you don't wear one, lift your wrist) then point at your watch and nod thoughtfully. Over acting is perfectly acceptable.
If they are keeping tabs on you, even peripherally, they will have a sudden urge to know the time and will either look at their own watch, cell phone, or casually look at the various obvious places where someone would put a clock.
I'm a paramedic. When a patient is possibly faking unconsciousness we have 2 tricks to determine if they're really unconscious or not. First, you can lightly brush their eyelashes with your finger. Their eyes will flutter if they're faking it. Alternatively, if they're on their back you can lift their arm over their face and let it go. A conscious person will drop their arm away from their face.
Finally, a trick to see if someone is faking a neck injury or neck pain. Put a thermometer in their mouth while checking their vitals, then ask them a yes or no question while looking them in the eyes. If you aren't looking directly at them they tend to answer with a strained "uh-huh" or "unh-uh", but if you're looking directly at them they will usually nod their head. Someone who is faking the pain can do this with ease.
And yes, there are a lot of calls where people fake pain, illness, etc. for various reasons...
The door-in-the-face technique. The general idea is that you ask someone for a huge favor which you're relatively confident they'll say no to. Then you ask them for a small favor.
Subjects who initially refuse the huge favor have a much higher compliance rate on the small favor than if you just ask directly for the small favor or if you present both at once.
If they end up saying yes to the huge favor, that's also good.
If I need to remember to do anything at all the next day I will put something in my room out of place. This works every time. Say for example I really want to remember to email my professor before leaving for class I will put a movie on the floor. I will initially think "Why is that-oh right email Ernie".
When trying to convince somebody to do something...offer them two options...either of which is OK with you. Humans have a hard time selecting outside of the given options.
Example: So, did you want me to pick you up at 7:00 or 7:30? Did you want me to pick up the $50 one or the $35 one?
"Nobody questions a man with a clipboard who looks like he belongs there"
A few months ago, a few local gas stations were robbed of all their red bull by a guy wearing a red bull polo and a clipboard. He walks in a tells the clerk that the red bull has expired and that he's replacing them. He loads the "old" red bull on a cart and leaves never to be seen again.
You would be shocked to find out how often "Hey look, a distraction!" works. Sure, they usually get mad right afterward, but I spent the time between them turning and catching on to what they just heard leaving the room.
Protip: it is best to do this next to a door, especially if you can get out of that door's line of sight quickly.
Proofread documents backwards. You'll catch more misspelled words.
Shit i didn't know, Courtesy of Reddit.com
p.s. Get a "Security" shirt.
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