If you feel confident, you’ll look confident. An open posture takes up more space and makes you feel more confident. If you keep your hands in your pockets, take them out. A laptop between you and your listener is a barrier. There are others to eliminate.Ī lectern is a barrier. Confident speakers, by contrast, keep their arms uncrossed with their palms turned up.īut your hands and arms are just one barrier. An uncomfortable speaker might unconsciously cross their arms, forming a defensive pose without being aware that they’re doing it. Open posture means that there’s no barrier between you and the audience. Rehearse until you have the presentation down cold. Every time you do, try to spend less time talking to the slides and more time making eye contact with your listeners. Watch the recording, noting all of the times you look at your slides instead of at your audience. There’s a simple way to get better at this, but it takes a little work: Record yourself practicing your presentation in front of a small audience. “When humans observe others’ faces, eyes are typically the first features that are scanned for information.” “Eyes play a key role in human social encounters,” according to one research report. Making eye contact is the first step to building trust with your listeners. The good news is that there is plenty of hard evidence that explains how you can give the appearance of confidence and competence - even if you’re nervous or timid on the inside. What you say and how you say it are equally important. This means, within seconds, listeners will decide whether you are trustworthy, and they will do it based on your body language and vocal attributes. Research shows that people form impressions about a leader’s competence in as little as half a minute. How you look and sound are going to make a big impression - and your audience will form opinions quickly. – I skipped two days of blogs due to personal issues.You’ve crafted the message and created the slides for your next presentation. A clean image, including fitted clothing, matching colors and sets, is a stepping stone for your dreams. And they have little to relate with us, as (in general) many of us physicists carry a rather elitist mindset in our occupations.Īll I wanted to point out is that you can do what you want, be it to be a lawyer or a particle physicist, you should always put some effort into your wardrobe and your image (appearance mainly) for if you want to succeed, dressing like a beggar will get you treated as a beggar. As a side note, this field that I belong in has rarely ever helped me in conversations because everyone else is studying either philosophy, psychology, education, law, music, film, acting, business, communications, or etc. Why? Cause physicists and some groups of mathematicians have given themselves a look to society that if I were to tell others what I’d do, they would be shocked if they see how I present myself. When I go out to hang out or when I still went clubbing, I used to not tell people what my major is or what I studied. represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry I’m going to directly quote Miranda Priestly: I know some of these people that t ake themselves toooo seriously to care about what they put on their back. Worse, some take themselves too seriously that they believe it’s below them to spend more than even one minute on their wardrobe. Oversized button-downs, huge slacks jeans, ugly jackets, and etc. They believe that their effort put towards understanding their field (which is highly respectable) is their true calling and most don’t put in the time to take a look at themselves. By that, I mean that if you dress like a slob, you will be treated like a slob, and sometimes (if you don’t have that confidence to support your inner self) you will feel like a slob.Īn argument many many physicists and mathematicians and engineers make is that it simply doesn’t matter. However, there is one subtlety where when it’s another person looking at you, that other person will judge you by their standards and your core being will be shrouded from their eyes. I’ve always concluded that this is like a law of nature, where there are no exceptions. Am I saying that people that just don’t care about their image also don’t care for others? Yes, in the sense that these people are not completely rounding out their persona.īeing trained as a physicist, I learned that things like names and things like outer appearance don’t affect the core of what “is”. What does it mean to dress nicely? Without all the usual derogatory sidechat that can be drawn to the purpose of dressing and looking decent, I’ve been raised to believe that one’s image is a type of manner – a type of respect for others.
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