Jay Shetty

You need fewer things to say and more willingness to hear.

The most magnetic person in any room is never the one talking.

It's the one making someone else feel like the only person in it.

Shift number four, master the art of the first 10 seconds.

Here's an uncomfortable statistic.

Research from Princeton psychologist, Dr. Janine Wills and Dr. Alexander Todorov found that people form first impressions in one 10th of a second.

one-tenth, God, we're so judgmental.

And subsequent research showed that impressions formed in longer timeframes, even up to several minutes, didn't differ meaningfully from those snap judgments we made earlier.

In other words, people decide what they think of you almost instantly, and then spend the rest of the interaction looking for evidence that confirms what they already decided.

Now, before that makes you more anxious, I get it.

Here's why it should actually set you free.

The impression isn't based on what you say.

You can't say anything meaningful in a tenth of a second.

By the way, neither can I. None of us can.

It's based on three things.

Your facial expression, your body orientation, and your energy.

So here's what the first 10 seconds could look like.

Not a rehearsal line.

Not a clever opener.

Three things.