Cool Index™ · The Mavrick Standard
A Cool Assessment graded against the standards of a man who once wore sunglasses indoors to look untouchable and walked straight into a sliding glass door. He bowed slightly, like it was performance art.
Instrument: Cool Index™ · Calibration: Brand Mavrick · Publisher: CrankyBooks
This will not help you. That's why it works.
The Cool Index measures one narrow thing: whether your signal holds when the room stops flattering you. Anyone looks composed in good lighting with a drink in their hand. The question is what's left when the lighting goes, the drink is empty, and someone asks you a sincere question you didn't rehearse for.
Twelve questions. No right answers, though you'll suspect otherwise and start performing for the form — which the instrument is counting on, and counting against you. Answer honestly. If you lie to a questionnaire, what else are you lying to. Just wondering.
Real coolness is a trap designed to keep people far enough away that no one realizes you're unraveling. — Philbert T. Upton, Founding Partner, Panopticon Agency