How you stand is the caption under every picture people take of you in their heads.

People read bodies before they read words and they do it fast and without permission. How you hold yourself at the edge of a room gets filed as confidence, boredom, or nerves before you have said a thing. That reading is often wrong, which is the annoying part, and it still becomes the caption people carry around.

None of this is about looking a certain way. It is about noticing what you do when you are uncomfortable, whether that is shrinking, checking your phone, or facing the door. Change one of those once this week and see if rooms answer differently.