Vanessa Van Edwards shows four non-verbal cues: the hand-steeple conveys competence, a head-tilt signals engagement and invites others to share, a pensive pose requires caution, and touching your face reads as deception. Keep your hands away from your face during conversation.
Smart people steeple. What's that? You want to try it with me? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. If you do this for a second, you actually kind of feel more put together. Oh. I call this a power pose for the hands. Why? You can see palms. We love a palm. We love to see it backing over. It's nice and loose. It's sort of put together. You said it shows competence and confidence. That's right. If I were to say, do you hear that? We tilt our head to the side. It's super engaging because it is a universal engagement cue. When I'm saying, oh, tell me more, I'm literally showing. I'm listening. Easy. War. So I do this one a lot, too. Does this one help? Like, okay, so this is the pensive. That's why we know this is the thinker. Pensive doesn't sound good. You have to be careful. Careful not to touch your face. And here's why. Liars are found to touch their face more often. Yeah. Touch their nose. Touch their nose. They itch their nose. They cover their mouth or they rub their eyes. You want to actually avoid any mouth, nose, eyes.
