Vanessa Van Edwards explains that the distance between your ear and shoulder signals confidence. A University of British Columbia study found Olympic winners occupy more space with their bodies while losers contract. Push your head back and up, lower your shoulders to open your chest, breathe deeper, and project more confidence.
The distance between your ear and your shoulder is a window into your confidence soul, and here's why. Whenever someone is anxious or nervous, they begin to creep their shoulders up, they turtle their neck down and in. Researchers from the University of British Columbia studied winning and losing athletes in the Olympics, and they found that winning athletes take up more space with their body. They typically have space between their arms and their torso. They have space between their ears and their shoulders. Losing athletes— and I literally want you to think of this as loser body language— they roll their shoulders in, they take up as little space as possible. Yeah. So what I want to say is, one, in your profile pictures, please please make sure that you have a maximum distance between your ears and your shoulders. Otherwise, you are signaling low confidence in your profile picture. Second, I want you to get in the habit of maximizing this difference— distance. That means pushing your head back and up and lowering your shoulders. What that's doing is I'm forcing your shoulders down, which opens up your chest, which makes you take in more air, which increases your vocal power. It also forces your head up, it relaxes your jaw, and it makes you have more of a relaxed face.
