Lewis Howes

That's that social zone.

That's where we're making eye contact.

If I wanted to reach out and high five you, I could.

We're still respecting each other's space.

So for those, one is when you're on video, in your photos, if you want to have that balance, you want to be...

18 inches to about three or four feet away.

Okay.

Yeah.

And the personal zone, by the way, is still good, but that's a little bit farther away, right?

So you're just starting to get to know each other.

When you see someone across the room or a boardroom or a networking event, they're usually about four to seven feet away, which is the next zone, which is the personal zone.

And then you have the public zone, which is obviously from far away.

What we like in human behavior is we like someone to come towards us slowly.

That's one of the reasons I think we're so burnt out on video.

You know, we have these back-to-back-to-back video calls and we wonder, why are we so tired?

I'm not even in person.

The reason is because it's cuing us in ways that are not natural.

In person, I walk into a room, right?

Like I walked into the office today and you were waiting.

I was like, hi.