The document discusses how body language and posture can influence confidence and emotions. It suggests that acting confident through open body language such as standing up straight, making eye contact, and smiling can prime the brain to actually feel more confident over time. Specifically, saying positive goals while sitting up straight with open body language makes them feel more achievable than saying them while slouching or with closed body language. Confident people also move slowly and make eye contact with relaxation rather than darting their eyes around nervously.

2. A lot of things can be reverse
engineered.

3. For many human qualities, form
follows function, and function follows
form.

4. Meaning if you feel confident on the
inside, you'll act confident on the
outside.

5. But if you're not confident on the
inside, you can "prime the pump" by
pretending to be confident on the
outside.

6. Fake it till you make it, as they say.

7. You can change your mood quickly,
when sad or depressed, but standing
up, rolling your shoulders around,
puffing out your chest, and putting on
a HUGE smile.

8. You'll feel pretty goofy at first, but it
works.

9. Especially if you're walking around
other people.

10. Once people start smiling back at you,
you'll turn any negative emotions
around, driven by the positive
feedback loop.

11. Sometimes, when you're not sure
what somebody means, you can take a
good guess by simply copying their
movement, facial expression, and body
language.

12. Like you see somebody doing some
"weird" body language or facial
gesture, you can "try it on" to see what
kind of internal emotions it creates.

13. This why often times it's good to say
things that are true, or you'd like to be
true, with your feet on the floor, and
open body language.

14. You can try this yourself, and see the
difference.

15. Take something you'd like to happen,
like a medium term goal.

16. Sit in a chair with your legs crossed,
feet off the floor, head tilted, and arms
crossed. They say your goal.

17. Now sit with your back straight, feet
flat on the floor, palms open on your
lap, facing up.

18. Your face squarely ahead, eyes solid,
looking in the mirror if you can. NOW
say your goal.

19. It will feel completely different.

20. This is one of the ways you can tell
that somebody's ultra confident as
soon as they walk in a room.

21. They're eyes aren't darting around.
Their head isn't spinning at the
smallest evidence of interest from
others. They aren't nervously tapping
their feet or moving their hands
around.

22. They're just moving very slowly. Head
slowly gazing about, eyes relaxed and
open, taking in the whole scene.

23. A slight smile on their face that shows
they're thinking, "Hmmm, I wonder
what kind of cool people I'll meet
here?"

24. And when they see somebody they
think is interesting, they don't circle
them wondering how to approach or
anything like that.

25. They just look at them and smile and
let them know, allowing the other
person time to gather themselves
before they walk over.

26. While they do, people are all thinking
the same thing:

27. "Who IS that?"

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