5 Tips To INSTANTLY Raise Your Status (Hint It’s Not Money)
[0:00:00] How to raise your status instantly?
What I'm talking about here is the box.
When people meet you, they put you in a box in their mind as a successful person, as a
not so successful person, as someone they want to get to know, as maybe someone they
want to pass on and, yeah, maybe if I have time.
I understand you guys are busy.
You're going for success you want to put your best foot forward.
Today's video, five tips to boost your status.
[Music] Tip number one to boost your status come off
as more attractive.
Now, you can do this in multiple ways.
So, first off, let's talk about style and clothing.
You knew I wasn't going to cover this guy's.
But, when you dress the part when you look the part of the success, people do judge a
book by its cover.
Now, I'm going to link to a number of studies down in the description in the support article,
but I will tell you guys research again and again shows that people fall prey to their
emotions to their stereotypes to basically being lazy and they walk into a room and they
just want to make a split decision.
When you look at a car, you don't go under and look at the engine to determine how fast
it is.
You look at the make and look at the model.
You use those shortcuts to make a determination of how fast.
Now, another car over here it may have been boosted may have actually I know a number
of things done with the engine, it may blow that other car out of the water.
But, but you're not going to know that because you're making a split-second decision because,
hey, you're going with what you have which is what we see.
We do that as human beings all the time.
Now, clothing is a big part and it's something you can control something I teach you here
at Real Men Real Style how to use so you can set your best foot forward.
Now, let's say you can't do anything about your clothes.
You're about to walk into a meeting you're about to walk into an interview maybe you're
going to give a presentation.
Well, what can you do to come off is more attractive instantly?
Smile.
So, there was a 2013 study and they showed all these different pictures oftentimes of
the same person, but in one case the person was smiling in the other one he was not and
what happened?
Lo and behold if the person was smiling on the pictures, he was always rated as more
attractive.
So, when you give a genuine smile, people can't help but feel better about you.
When they feel better about you, they find you more attractive.
So, we talked about clothing so we talked about smiling, but what about items that you
own maybe what about the car you drive, maybe the bag that you carry, maybe the watch that
you're wearing.
There is actually research on cars.
They've actually looked at various vehicles how people perceive what you drive and the
status associated with it, how new the vehicle is.
People make snap judgments, yes, on your car.
Bags -- leather bags I couldn't find any information on that and the same with watches which I
was surprised with.
I thought that somebody would have done a great study on watches and perceived status.
Now, when it comes to watches I am going to say though that getting a nice watch is great.
And if you're just starting off let's say you got a limited budget you want to watch
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Okay.
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I'm keeping these watches, they're beautiful.
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You guys know when you wear these watches you're going to get compliments.
Status booster number two, use power of body language.
We're talking about power poses.
So, this goes back to a 2015 study in which they had two groups they broke up.
One group they had do power poses for five minutes reciting their qualifications for
an interview, the other group about the same thing except they had weak poses.
So, the people actually doing the interviews did not know they had done these power poses
and they didn't know which one they did and they rated them on are they qualified, was
this person confident, was this person attractive, was -- all of these other things they rated
them and the people that had the power poses were much more likely to be rated as attractive
as higher status as someone that was wanted for the job despite all of them having about
the same qualifications.
[0:05:11] If you're about to go into a meeting you're
about to give a presentation, do not just simply get into that weak pose.
Get out there maybe go around.
There's also other studies in which actually children would perform better in school if
they had exercise first thing in the morning.
They were smarter they were more attentive and even the teacher thought they were more
alert.
Kind of makes sense, right?
So, maybe one thing that you could do if you're not going to start doing the power poses,
start to exercise in the morning.
All of this can boost your status very quickly.
How to increase your status tip number, three display authority when you sit down.
So a lot of people when they sit down they try to minimize the amount of space that they're
taking and it's something that comes off as very weak.
So, if you cross your hands if you kind of bring everything in, if you don't want to
disturb people if you want to look smaller.
Now, I'm not talking about going with the opposite here when you walk into a room and
you take up all the space maybe lay across three seats.
View people and anyone else you meet as a – as a peer as someone you're at the same
level of all these people.
Yes, your boss the CEO they can fire you, but they called you into their office because
they want to talk about that project and how we can get it going faster.
Come off as a friend, come off as someone that you -- it's just, hey, you know it’s
just me and you let’s talk.
And, when you do that, you show strength you show a bit of authority and you come off as
stronger.
Increasing your status tip number four, improve your eye contact.
So, this depends on how many people you're engaging with.
If you're talking with somebody one-on-one, about half of the time you want to be looking
at them in the eyes.
Understand that if you're not making eye contact with them, then it can come off as weak.
Now, when you're talking in a group not making about, you know, 20% 20% 20% and then 40%
of the time you're just kind of moving your eyes in and around, that's about on average
what you want to see.
If you overdo this which is actually difficult for a lot of people to do, that's about 60%
for one individual, it didn't come off as aggressive, but that's still better than coming
off is weak.
So, weak is where you not almost making any eye contact.
You're basically just looking up and it not only comes off in most Western countries as
disrespectful, it comes off as very weak.
Now I understand some of you guys come from countries in which maybe you don't make eye
contact with people in a respectful position, so this is something it is very context-driven.
But, understand if you're in a business environment and you're talking with someone or if it's
a, you know, a deep per – you know having a personal meeting, but it's something that's
important, make sure to make the right amount of eye contact otherwise you're going to be
perceived as weak.
So, this next tip for increasing your status is one of my favorites, become a great storyteller.
So, if you can engage an audience whether it’d be two, whether it’d be one person,
whether it be a hundred people with stories that are strong that are emotional they grab
their attention they take them – it basically help make them feel what you're feeling when
you're telling the story, you have a very powerful gift.
And this makes you more attractive, it makes you come off as more competent, it makes you
come off as someone that they want to do business with.
Yes, it make -- storytellers make excellent, excellent salespeople because they understand
that emotion that actually getting the person to remember you that using something that's
memorable to get to the point and to show this person, hey, I can solve your problem
I have a product that can help alleviate your pain, that's very, very powerful.
A lot of people they just view storytellers though as people that are amazing communicators.
Peo – and human beings have told stories for thousands of years.
It used to be how we passed on history.
So, if you are an amazing storyteller, you're someone that can captivate an audience and
this is something it's a learned skill, instantly you're going to take your status up to the
next level.
All right, gents now it's your turn.
Let me know in the comments what I miss what you would have added to this list.
And I know many of you guys going to say, oh, all you need is a million dollars just
a lot of money and, yeah, your status is going to go up.
But, understand the status I'm talking about is more about how you can position yourself
to be -- to send the message you want to.
Because whether you were in a nonprofit, you own a construction company, you've got a law
firm, you've got a consulting company, you are just starting in the mailroom of a really
large bank.
Whatever it may be, guys, I want to make sure that you can go in there and you can send
that signal that, hey, I'm someone that you can trust to do business with you, I'm someone
that you can trust to give me your business, I’m somebody that is going to be successful.
That's it guys.
Oh, go check out Vincero.
I'm linking to them down in the description.
Like I said, I've got a few watches I would love to send your way, but I need to hear
how are you going to wear it exactly which watch you would like to receive.
That's it guys.
Take care.
I'll see you in the next video.
Bye.
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