The less you need to be seen, the more people start noticing you.

Chasing attention reads as need, and need pushes people back half a step without either side deciding to. Somebody busy with their own thing gives off the opposite signal, and attention drifts toward it. None of that is a technique. It is just where people look when nobody is pulling at them.

Pick one thing this week that you do well and do not mention it anywhere: a run, a grade, a favor you did for somebody. Notice how differently it sits when the point of it is not the telling.