Once you feel secure inside you others WILL look at you as a higher status person.
Why?
Simply because you're too happy being you to even care about what they might think about you.
Two definitons: self-esteem and self confidence.
The first is all about how you look at yourself as a human being. ARE YOU A PERSON OF VALUE?
The second is about your abilities to do things. HOW ABLE ARE YOU TO PERFORM SOMETHING/SUCCEED?
Once you have both, you get SECURITY. And, as we all know, the way you socialize is a mere reflection of how SECURE you are. Also, SECURITY generates SECURITY: It's a "vicious" cicle...
So, start to believe in yourself! Unleash the Avalanche within...!
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Hell, that actually sounded good didn't it?
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