Your posture communicates a lot about you. Principally, it communicates your confidence and therefore your authority. It also communicates by some, perhaps not reliable reasoning, something about your honesty. So what are some good guidelines for the kind of posture that you want, if you're to convey gravitas? The first is to be square on to the person or the people that you're talking with. As soon as you move just a little bit sideways, you look just a little bit shifty.

And have you noticed that sometimes, when people are talking to you, their head is spinning? See you. But if you were to look down, you'd see that one of their feet is pointing towards the door. Now of course, straight on its head eyeball to eyeball stairs are intimidating and diminish gravitas in favor of something far less pleasant some form of power, but a confidence square on posture. That's what you want. The next thing is to keep your posture as much as possible, symmetric.

Any gross asymmetry will diminish your authority. In this kind of posture. It kinda looks like I'm thinking about something and whilst thinking is good. Maybe you have further I don't know. The next thing is to make sure that you're up right. Now the best way to do this is to plant your feet about shoulder width apart.

Now when you do this, you'll notice that a comfortable posture has your feet splayed out just a little bit, and that's fine. So shoulder width apart of your feet. If you want to send a dominant signal, then perhaps a little wider. But shoulder width apart for confidence and gravitas. And then imagine that there is a puppet string, pulling your head up onto your shoulders. That kind of upright posture is important.

If you have problems with your posture, then there are a range of methods you can use to develop it like the Alexander Technique like physio therapy, and things like that. Even some of the martial arts or things like yoga will help you to develop and improve posture. Finally, one of the things that can Easily destroying gravitas is when you cross your legs or your arms. Now, a lot of this is around code psychology. crossed arms don't necessarily mean you're defensive. We are hostile.

It could mean you're comfortable or cold. But people will interpret your body posture. So, uncross your legs, uncross your arms, feet shoulder width apart. puppet string, pulling you into an upright posture, square on facing the person speaking with nice and symmetric. All of that will aid your gravitas