The world is your playground. You walk into a room and understand that it’s all a game. This is your playful philosophy on life.

High status people have incredible talk in between their ears that allows them to find pleasure in what low status people find painful. 5. Body language As Viv Groskop wrote in her book ‘How to Own the Room’, it’s about a state of mind as well as an ease in your body. She talks about it from the point of establishing presence and confidence. Knowing that you really own your ‘status’ at a given moment in time, perhaps when you’re giving a speech or a presentation. Happy high status people are in control and confident, but generous and easy going with it. They seem to glide. There are no rules as to what it should be or look like, it’s very individual. Viv talks about Michelle Obama having loads of it which starts, she suggests, with having a strong posture and healthy body. Of course, I rushed off and read ‘Becoming’, Michelle Obama’s book recounting her journey from childhood to First Lady, and you can see how she found and developed her happy high status.

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Obviously, it’s not as simple as just talking loudly and standing up straight to achieve high-status or gravitas! There’s something else beneath it; experiences, knowledge, credibility, belief, inner strength and more. A feeling. But what I’ve learnt over and over again is to trust rather than doubt myself. I find my version of high-status and gravitas when I lean in to myself, draw on my strengths and know that I can do this!

High status people are leaders. Not followers. As a leader you take charge of the group, you speak to the group lead in the direction that’s best for everyone. 29. Have impeccable social skills Your mindset is completely content. It’s all good. That’s good. That’s good. Oh, that? that’s also good. Unfailing coolness, it’s all good even if it's bad it’s good. “It’ll be alright” type of attitude. A high status person is bigger than their problems. 27. Have an impossible mission I don’t think nor care about social hierarchies. I believe that social status is not good or bad, it’s just a tool you can use to help achieve your goals. Just like any other tool, you maximize the benefits and minimize the negatives. If you are around a bunch of low-status people it’s easier to fall into their reality if you aren’t mindful. It might take a few days of research to get there, or a couple of interviews with experts. But eventually you’ll get to the point where you’ve found the hook, the entry point int your story, and you know you’ve got something good to say. You’re invested, and you care. You’ve earned the right to write about this.But the thing of beauty is this: with a bit of work, every writer can get there. If you’re genuinely respectful, generous and honest while you’re writing, good copy will happen. You will be providing value, and engage your audience – no matter what your tone of voice guidelines say. (And even if you have no tov guidelines at all.) Your writing may not be perfect, or super polished. But you will have done something 90% of all copy out there doesn’t achieve. It’s a generous spirit that surrounds everything you do. Living like this is an expression of having abundance in your life. 17. Boundaries Take charge and be confident. Confidence is required: being confident in yourself and letting others perceive you as a confident person.

There are experts out there that are much better at talking about this then me. But in terms of principles there are two you must follow: Healthy entitlement is the sense that you have the right to want things, even if you might not get them. Or you can be like Conor McGregor’s level of entitlement: Watch this from 3:12 onward. 22. Master how to have great first impressions The high status man is not afraid to assert himself against challengers to the throne. 18. Laugh loudly There is not an ounce of people pleasing or seeking for agreement when you communicate as a high status man. 31. Make statements rather than questions. Pause until you have their full attention. If they are distracted don’t continue the conversation. 12. Think big thoughts

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This is part of making a great first impression. Don’t mess this up. It’s simple but not always easy. 20. Don’t go out of your way to befriend high status people