Name: 3 Body Language Tips To Instantly Look More Attractive
Uploaded: 2018-08-03T06:57:26.000Z
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Like it or not, people are making snap decisions about you all the time

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and oftentimes, they do it without even letting you speak.

Quite frankly, you do the same thing to them which is why in this video,

Valentine's Day is coming so, we're going to do three subtle things that you can do

to be more attractive with your body language — nothing to do with what you're saying.

So I'm just gonna jump right into it; the first one is something that people do wrong

I'm gonna illustrate this with the story because I think it's the easiest way

and it was one of the most vivid ways which I learned it.

I was in Las Vegas with a friend of mine. I lived there; he came in to visit and if you've ever

been to a Las Vegas Club, it can be overwhelming.

So we got into this club, it was just the two of us,  were not drinking, and he's not from there so, instantly,

I see his body language lock down and he starts to get uncomfortable.

To his credit, he starts to walk up, he sees a group of women, he walks up and says hello,

and it didn't go well; his lack of confidence shines through and they disappear within

pretty much 15-30 seconds. So I said, "It's alright, man.  Don't sweat it. We'll have fun on the dance floor."

We go to the dance floor and the same lack of confidence  is shining through; he's not moving very much.

He's kind of dancing in this little box like a T-Rex. So I say, "Hey, lift your elbows

off of your ribcage. Be a little bit more expansive,  be expressive, and just dance as goofy as you can."

Now, this is silly but he does it and he looks  goofy for a minute but really, two things happen.

First off, because there's a feedback loop with the  way your body works and the way your mind works,

as he starts to move in a more expansive way, he starts to feel more confident.

And I'm sure you've experienced the same thing or  perhaps the reverse when you walk around like this.

The second thing that happened is that people started to notice  him on the dance floor and we started dancing with some people.

Not only that, when we went off the dance floor  he maintained those kind of expansive gestures —

the pointing like this, moving around, not having his elbows glued to his side...

And the next group of women that we spoke to, we wound  up hanging out with for the rest of the night in the club

and he did that because not only did they see that he was more confident but he felt it too

so use expansive gestures no matter where you are.

So if you see a friend, you could say, "Hey, what's up?" or you'd say, "What's up, man?"

That's an expanse gesture. If Somebody asks you for  directions, you could say, "Hey, I think it's that way,"

or you could say, "I think it's that way." That is an expansive gesture and it's going to do

much more to make you be perceived as confident and of course, attractive.

The second thing, again, that people do wrong is seeking behavior.

The classic seeking behavior, you may have seen in a bar, is two guys standing at a bar

and they're buddies and you could tell because they're close to each other

but they're not looking at each other; they're looking out there.

And what they're broadcasting to the world as they peer is that the fun is not here.

The fun, the interesting thing, or whatever it is that they're looking for is outside

of themselves and that is an incredibly unattractive thing to broadcast.

Contrast that with magnetic body language

and what magnetic body language is telling other people before  I kind of show you what it might be is that the fun is where you are

because we all are very, very finely socially attuned people

and when we're out at a bar or a party or club or any kind of social setting,

we tend to want to know where the fun is and then we put ourselves near that.

So fun would be facing the person that you came there with.

When you're in conversation with them not looking over your shoulder trying to find

something more interesting to do but being engaged in that conversation,

using your expansive body language, laughing loudly, and having a good time.

Now, I'm not saying to fake this stuff; I'm saying to actually do it.

And in fact, it doesn't have to just be with your group of friends.

Something else that I see in terms of body language is people will kind of walk around

spaces during parties, clubs, bars, or whatever almost as if they were looking

for something and they do loops and I'm guilty of this myself.

Instead, have fun with whoever you are near; whoever's there, strike up a conversation.

Say hello — whatever it takes — because that is magnetic.

And when you start pulling people into that group, amazing things happen.

A quick story to illustrate this — many years ago when I lived in New York City,

Ben who was my best friend and my co-founder was an investment banker.

And they worked a lot of hours so he got one night off; he and  his buddies went out to a club and they were so happy to be there.

They were extremely excited, they were laughing,  talking to each other, having a great time and people noticed.

So what Ben did, because he was just having a great time, was as people kinda

overheard their conversation and chimed in and he would bring them into the conversation

so that started to grow. He went to the bathroom.

If he was standing in line for the bathroom, perhaps somebody was standing in line

at the bathroom just kind of quietly and because he was in such a good mood,

he started including them as well; he'd bring them back.

In this way, he started to grow this core group until somebody came up to him and said,

"Hey, are you working?" and he said, "No, I'm not working.  If I was working I wouldn't be here."

The guy said, "Oh. Sorry, man. I thought that you were a club  promoter just based on the amount of people that you had here."

Since you're not, maybe you want to come out with me." He gave his card

and this wound up being someone that we went out with for probably the next year

to the best clubs in New York City, we got in for free, we cut the line, and we were

drinking at the time because we were young twenties, and we got free alcohol as well.

The point of this is this is a body language thing is a talking thing but it's —

don't look and behave and act and feel wherever you are as if the fun is out there.

Have fun with whoever is nearby. So just think, if you're ever being bored standing in line

waiting for the cashier or wherever, make sure that in your immediate periphery,

there's always someone around you, strike up a conversation with them,

do your expansive body language all that kind of stuff, and this is going to make people

who can't even hear your conversation drawn to you; this is the magnetism we talk about

so that is the second thing. The third thing is something that I see particularly, again,

in clubs and bars but that's just where this body language stuff is most pronounced

is when groups go out because groups of guys tend to go out with groups of guys and

groups of women tend to go out with groups of women

and what happens is, when they meet, they stay in the group.

You've got a group of three guys lined up over here and

the girls lined up over here and it looks like a sixth-grade dance

where they're just both standing against the wall waiting for somebody cross over.

Even if that conversation goes well, it can feel like two groups  are kind of interrogating or interviewing each other.

A much more powerful body language thing that you can do

is to stagger this to boy-girl, boy-girl, and boy-girl. How do you do this?

It's actually very simple. When you walk up to a group with your buddies —

you say hello and you're introducing yourselves — a very simple thing that you can do

is just as you're shaking hands to step in and stand next to  as opposed to across from the person that you said hi to

to make room for your friends who might be saying hi as well.

If that's not something that you're comfortable with or that doesn't happen the beginning of the conversation, again, very simple —

just wait until you guys have been talking and if you notice that this happens, say,

"Hold on. This feels like we're at a sixth-grade dance with all the boys on one wall

and all the girls at the other; let's stagger this," and you can just move yourself over,

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