People who don’t feel confident in social situations often have trouble interacting with others. However, anyone can boost their confidence by ensuring their, body language conveys a positive message.Practice these gestures and movements to project an airport confidence.

Lean Forward

When you are in a conversation, leaning forward indicates interest and attention, while maintaining distance indicates that you are disinterested. Research suggests that nonverbal signals such as leaning forward and facing straight ahead help convey feelings of interest.

Slow Your Movements

Fast movements make you appear more anxious. Everything from hand gestures to your walking pace can make a difference; slow down and notice how you feel more confident when you take your time.

The key, however, is to maintain other signals like eye contact and posture while moving more slowly. Slow movements combined with poor eye contact and slouched (耷拉的) posture may cause people to see you less confident.

Keep Your Chin Up

Do you look at the ground when you are walking or talking? Instead, keeping your head up and facing your conversation partner conveys interest and confidence. It might feel unnatural initially, but you will eventually become used to this more confident pose.

Give a Firm Handshake

A weak handshake is a sign of a lack of confidence, so offer a firm hand when meeting others. How long your handshake lasts can also influence how people perceive you.

Research has found that the length of a normal handshake is around three seconds or less. Handshakes lasting longer than three seconds are associated with less enjoyment of the interaction and more anxiety.

Writing a poem is about observing the world within or around you. 【小题1】, from love to loss to the gate at the old farm. Writing poetry seems difficult. However, with the right approach, you can write a poem that you can be proud to share with others.

Pick a specific theme or idea. This can make it easier for you to narrow down what images and descriptions you are going to use in your poem. For example, you may decide to write a poem around the theme of love and friendship. 【小题2】.

Avoid cliché(陈词滥调). Your poetry will be much stronger if you avoid cliches, which are phrases that have become so familiar that they have lost their meaning. 【小题3】. By doing so, your reader is surprised and attracted by your writing. If you feel a certain phrase or image is too familiar to your reader, replace it with a more unique one.

【小题4】. Poetry is made to be read out loud. So you should write your poem with a focus on how it sounds on the page. Pay attention to the structure of your poem and your word choice. Notice how each line of your poem flows into one another and how placing one word next to another creates a certain sound.

Get feedback(反馈) from others. You can also share your poem with other poets to get feedback from them and improve your poem. 【小题5】, where you discuss your poems with other poets and work on your poetry together. Or you may take a poetry writing class, where you work with an instructor and other poets to improve your writing.

Being thoughtful and active listeners can help us be better friends, colleagues, and family members. And just like any other skill, our listening can be improved over time. Many people share with us the little ways they’ve become better listeners.【小题1】

Maintain eye contact.【小题2】 It helps you be “present” with them, and feel their emotions when they are sharing. It reduces the possibility of any distractions, and helps the other person know that you are truly present in your conversation.

【小题3】Active listening has become even more critical while working from home, as it’s so easy to talk over each other on Zoom calls. What you can gain from listening more and talking less is you actually get much more out of the conversation. Instead of focusing on what you are going to say next and not really absorbing what is being shared, keeping yourself on mute forces you to only come into the conversation when you have something relevant or meaningful to share. It allows others who may be less active to participate and it cuts down on the noise.

Listen without thinking of solutions. What may help you become a better listener is to stop trying to listen for the problem to fix. Your job is to listen and take in what’s being said. You can ask for clarifications while you are listening if you are unsure of their meaning.【小题4】 The point is to let them lead and don’t interrupt with solutions. That may not be what they need right now. If they only need to be heard or to find a listening ear, be that for them.

Block off enough time. To be a good listener, ensure you block time off.【小题5】 Instead, set aside 2-3 hours to ensure your friend has undivided attention. And confirm to your friend that you made time to have that long overdue talk. If you have a family, do it during school hours or when your partner is at home.