Lewis Howes

So he shows up, and he's sitting in what's called the runner's stance.

The runner's stance is when someone, so you know runners, before they win a race, they go into the crunch position, one leg back.

We know this as a readiness position.

Universally across cultures, if someone's about to run away from us, they will get into this position, right?

Like they're literally about to run away.

It's why sprinters start a race like that.

Well, Nixon spent the first 30 seconds of the debate in that position.

He was nursing it.

But it made it look like he was about to run out on us.

That's from just a quick nonverbal perspective.

The first impression was, where is he going?

Even though people didn't consciously realize it, he looked not planted.

And we don't like leaders who aren't going to stay with us.

Whereas Kennedy, on the other hand, he had a really nice, relaxed cross.

And he used what's called humility hands.

Research calls it humility hands.

Humility hands are when your hands are on your leg and they're resting.

Humility, humble.

So he looked relaxed, calm, here to stay.

You know, not tensed at all.