Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident

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And my answer is always that you don’t - motivation isn’t a tangible, definable thing, and this book makes the same point about confidence. Hi, I’m Suswati, journalist and editor, discovering what makes us human and “how to be”, whilst showcasing polarising conversations. Subscribe to Viv's weekly newsletter here for book, TV and film recommendations and loads of great tips on writing creativity and mindset: https://howtoowntheroom.

She has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post and the F-Word blogs, and has worked for various media outlets such as the BBC, Channel 4 and for ITV News/ITN.It’s simply and entertainingly done, and I enjoyed the references at the end being offered in a much more casual style than a typical bibliography. The why is beautifully explained, without harnessing and enhancing our confidence we loose out on so much opportunity in front of us. The kind of confidence that comes not from anything particular that you say or do but from how you hold yourself, your ‘status’. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Authors identify five actions news publishers can take to address news avoidance, from packaging their news products differently to explaining the value of journalism and reaffirming their editorial values. Patsy is coming back to EastEnders later this year so this interview got picked up in the Daily Mail who reported on her tone of self-acceptance with shock and confusion. She is the host of the podcast How Own the Room, with over 2 million downloads and guests including Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Professor Mary Beard, Nigella Lawson and very occasionally a man like Brian Cox (Succession's Logan Roy).It lends strength and energy to your interactions, big and small, and is a way of projecting status, minimising self-doubt and moving effortlessly through life.

It is about trusting one’s instincts and decisions, being comfortable in one’s own skin, and maintaining a steady and composed demeanor even in challenging situations. As the graph depicts, self-perceived attractiveness scores increased in the presence of a compliment and vice versa. In a series of chapters in which she approaches the idea of status from different perspectives –for example ‘be like final-scene Sandy and Danny’ – Viv Groskop gives a mixture of friendly encouragement, deep dive psychology and practical tips such as ‘leave a gap and a space for a thought to land with the other person. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. Just as I said these words out loud, the lighting rig sparked up out of nowhere and bathed the stage in a pool of illumination.The story, “Makron-økonomi”, about the rise of the trendy macaron, was printed in D2/ Dagens Næringsliv. The wider issue — certainly in the UK — is an issue that news providers can’t fix: increasingly people don’t feel part of a community… So no wonder they want to disengage from news when it only frightens and depresses them and makes them feel more atomised. As an executive coach, she works with women across business, media and advertising, helping them to hone their authority, presence and leadership. I’ve also read her book ‘How to own the room’ where she introduced the ‘Happy High Status’ concept in a very memorable and intriguing chapter. If people are looking to you for confidence and clarity when all around you is complexity and chaos, you could do a lot worse than read this guide to being yourself while also being charming, calm and authoritative.