Hey its Min from the Art of Verbal War, where people learn to excel in verbal skills.
So, I've been a little MIA lately.
What have I been doing?
Well, I've been doing a lot of reading.
And this reading has been a little painful.
No, not that kind of painful!
I'm not reading Fifty Shades of Grey.
So, I've been reading a stack of scientific articles.
Check this out.
It's massive isn't it?
I've been doing this so you guys don't have to do this.
Why are you guys so damn lucky?
So, today's topic is "The Science of Charisma".
So, do you hate it when self-help "gurus" just pull stuff out of their asses?
Today, we're going to talk about things that are ACTUALLY proven.
Not by me, but by legitimate scientists that will increase your charisma.
So, let's talk charisma.
What exactly IS charisma?
So in this massive stack of articles, scientists define people with charisma as people who
have the following adjectives: convincing, believable, respected, admired, and in whom
others have confidence in.
I like it.
Don't you?
How would you like these adjectives to describe the way you present yourself?
I know, charisma seems like such a vague and ambiguous concept, and it seems like you just
have to be born with it.
But that's not true at all.
Scientists have done a massive amount of research on the subject of charisma.
And I'm gonna bring that to you today.
So, here are five things you can incorporate today into your verbal and non-verbal repertoire
that will increase your charisma dramatically.
#1 is vocal delivery.
Scientists have found that a vocal pitch that's higher in pitch is more charismatic.
And they also found that the more use of pauses increases charisma.
And finally, they also found that extreme variations in volume also increase your charisma.
#2 is the intensity of words, and I don't mean how loudly you speak.
What I mean by intensity is the amount of emotional content and specificity in the words
that you speak.
So, the more emotional and specific your language is, the more charismatic you'll seem to be.
I mean, this is so true.
How many times have you met people who speak generically about their experiences?
It's impossible to connect with them, right?
#3 is enthusiasm and passion.
I mean this is pretty intuitive isn't it?
Someone who is enthusiastic and passionate tends to come off as more charismatic.
And this is hilarious, this study also concluded that boringness is correlated with low charisma!
Duh. #4 is the content of words that you use.
This is a bit counterintuitive, but a study found that the less CONTENT words that you
use versus the amount of FUNCTION words you us is also correlated with charisma.
What are function words?
Function words are non-content words.
They're just basically words that imply relationships between content words.
So, anyhow let's throw out these definitions.
It boils down to this.
Now, here's the counterintuitive part.
The longer it takes for you to say what you're trying to say, the more charismatic you can
come off.
I mean in someway that doesn't make a whole lot of sense right?
But basically don't take it to an extreme.
You don't wanna be long winded, but you also don't want to be too concise and brief.
Now #5, and the last thing we're going to talk about today, is vocal pitch.
Scientists who have found that people who are more charismatic use a higher amount of
high pitch accents when they speak.
Now, I don't recommend you talk like Alvin the Chipmunk.
Instead, what you wanna do is to use a higher amount of higher pitch accents when you speak.
Okay my friends, today you learned five of my ten scientific charisma secrets.
If you want to learn all TEN of these scientific charisma secrets, go to www.artofverbalwar.com/scientific
and I'll send you a free report with all ten secrets, and you'll also learn when my new
book "Scientific Persuasion" is released.
Okay that's it for today, I hope that was helpful.
Until next time, go forth and be charismatic.
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