3 Tips Anyone Can Use To Instantly Look More Attractive

Body language shifts that make you look more confident in social settings. Stand with expansive gestures, smile more often, and position yourself at the center of group conversations. Small physical changes signal confidence to others instantly.
Like it or not, people are making snap decisions about you all the time. 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, I want to talk about. Well, 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 going to jump right into it. The first one is something that people do wrong, and that is T. Rex arms. I'm going to illustrate this with a story because I think it's the easiest way. And it was one of the most, well, vivid ways, which I learned it. I was in Las Vegas with a friend of mine. I live 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's just the two of us. We're 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 does not go well. His lack of confidence shines through, and they disappear within pretty much 15, 30 seconds. Say, it's all right, man. Don't sweat it. We're just gonna go. We'll have fun on the dance floor. 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, well, 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, right? So you see a friend, you can say this, hey, what's up? Or you can say, what's up, man? That's an expansive gesture. Somebody asks you for directions, you could say, hey, I think it's that way. Or you can 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, somebody that people do wrong is seeking behavior. The classic seeking behavior you may have seen at a bar is two guys standing at a bar. They're buddies. 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, 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 a 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, parties, clubs, bars, whatever, almost as if they were looking for something. 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. Quick story to illustrate this. Many years ago, when I lived in New York City, Ben, my best friend, my co founder, was an investment banker. And they work 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, you know, he was just having a great time, was as people kind of overheard their conversation and chimed in, he would bring them into the conversation. So the group 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. He 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. Gave him 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 in our young 20s and we got free alcohol as well. The point of this is, this is a body language thing. It's 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 or boring, standing in line, waiting for the cashier, 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 aren't even. Can't even hear your conversation drawn to you. This is the magnetism that 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 grow up with groups of guys. Groups of women tend to grow up with groups of women. And what happens is when they meet, they stay in the group. You get a group of three guys lined up over here, the girls are lined up over here, and it looks like a sixth grade dance where they're just both standing against the wall waiting for someone to cross over. Even if that conversation goes well, it can feel like, well, 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. Boy, girl, boy, girl, 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, you know, 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 at the very beginning of the conversation. Again, very simple. Just wait until you guys have been talking and if you notice that this happens and say, hold on, this feels like we're at a sixth grade dance with all the boys on one wall, all the girls at the other. Let's stagger this. And you can just move yourself over. Go here. Okay. Here. Better. Now we look and feel like a group of friends and people will laugh because it's funny and it's true and then, well, you're out there and you' it. So that will change the dynamic of the group and you can have the same conversation and it's going to go much better and you'll be perceived as more attractive for being the leader and for setting that up. Those are the three subtle things. But I'd be remiss if I didn't do one more, perhaps more obvious thing. But it's, it's, you got to include it in body language and it's smiling. This is the simplest thing to make you be perceived as more attractive, friendlier, more approachable. We've got a video on the perfect smile. I won't go into in detail here, but I couldn't leave it out of this video. All of these things fall under the realm of things that typically high self esteem people do fairly naturally. And while you can start to layer the behaviors on before the self esteem is there, it's helpful to take a two pronged approach, right? Put the behaviors on. You can fake it till you make it, but also begin to develop that self esteem internally. 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If you have any questions, go ahead and leave them in the comments below. If you want to see more like this, make sure to subscribe and of course to hit that notification bell so you don't miss any other tips. Have a happy and wonderful Valentine's Day no matter who you're with. Right? Be magnetic, have a good time with the people around and I'll see you in the next video.










