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Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident (out June 29) is my sixth book but this never gets old… Opening the box and holding that hardback in your hands for the first time. Charismatic individuals have a captivating presence, charm, and the ability to inspire and persuade others. There’s also a welcome look at how to deal with situations in which people may wrongly assign a ‘lower’ status to you based on the fact that you’re not a white man.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. I find this inspiring: to know that even the best performers acknowledge that you need the most guts and confidence to be yourself in front of others.

You always take the higher ground like a mature adult, even when others do not reciprocate the same towards you.This is what I was talking about at How to Academy at the weekend: lots of great performers are scared of being themselves in front of others. It seems to me that this is a phenomenon replicated across many demographics, whether in wartime or peacetime, whether under democracy or under authoritarianism: a sense of atomisation, loss of hope, overwhelm. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Gold medalist Neha Mehta is an RCI-registered psychologist, certified relationship and child psychologist, and a well-known parenting coach practicing in Haryana. A post graduate in Mass Communication and Journalism, he has strong professional and academic background in. The kind of confidence that comes not from anything particular that you say or do but from how you hold yourself, your ‘status’.

Playing a role with a script (and someone to direct you) is very different to “being yourself” and taking responsibility for your choice of words.