Having strong, confident, excellent body language isn’t just about having good posture for posture’s sake, or making your mother happy. Non-verbal cues are important: people instinctually use them to size up your attitude, personality, and state-of-being. If you currently walk around bent over, or constantly looking down, or hunching against yourself, it can communicate things you may not want. Some people do this to make themselves look smaller, like very tall or very shy people.
The “proper” way to walk around, we are often taught* is back straight, chin up, eyes forward, chest out slightly, smile on your face.
*This advice is intended for any secular business or social setting in North America. Your situation may vary.
However, just being told to stand up straight doesn’t really cut it. To help, I share two “metaphors” that you can visualize in your mind to help you adopt good posture. Pick one:
It has some specific advice on controlling many, many different kinds of equipment. However, be warned: this book is geared to instrumentation engineers and has a different focus, and very instrumentation-driven details. Unless you are heavily into instrumentation, I would try to borrow a copy and give it a quick read before deciding to buy it.
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