How to sound mature and smart even tho you are not!
The art of tricking people that you are mature and smart.
It is said that the average life span of humans are 72 years. Over the course of these years, we meet alot of people in our life. And all of them will have different attributes and traits. Some people are so cheerful and kind. While some are grumpy and rude. Some has an infectious positivity while some are just plain negative energy. Some are introverts and some are extroverts. Some are mature and composed while others are literal definition of ‘class clowns'
In this story, I’ll tell about how I tricked or managed to sound smart and mature even tho there are smarter and mature people than me. One thing I learnt in my college is that, people really adores calm and mature people. The way people look at mature people is really different. When you talk, you get an audience quicker than the rest. It is one of such ‘perks' that I love the most. I noticed that, if you do certain things people tends to take you seriously. And it’s not that big changes I’m talking about. If you twitch your daily routines a little here and there, you will start to feel the difference. First things one should do according to me to achieve this is to
Talk less and learn to keep quite.
No, I’m not talking about being silent like a grumpy old man. Nobody loves that type of a person. Our aim is to make you look smart and mature not weird or silent. For this you need to choose your words and situations carefully. Think about it. Your words and things you saying are etching a picture of yourself in people’s mind. And when you are drawing a painting you choose your colors correctly. You just don’t throw random colors at a painting and hope to have a good result in the end right? It’s same with people. Your words are colors on a blank canvas called mind in strangers. And if you are a person who is blabbering unwanted and unrelated topics everywhere, people will cease to take you seriously. There will be always a person in a group, where people ‘switch off' their brains when he /she starts talking. Because they know anything relevant or valuable won’t come out from their mouths. Because he is not capable of saying anything relevant. So don’t be like that person. There are times where you have to stop talking and listen to others. Let’s be real here, you can’t be knowledgeable about everything under the blue sky. It’s not possible and it’s ok. My intrest is not your intrest. Our rabbit hole of research varies. So it’s ok to be quiet and listen. Rather than saying things you don’t know and failing miserably, making a fool out of yourself. People tends to remember this trait of you if you keep on doing it. So sometimes be a good listener than an orator. But if you are so eager to say something I suggest you to do something which I call
“Bringing them to your terrain”
This is a subtle trick I use to change the direction of conversation to my advantage. You can’t keep quite in a group discussion always can’t you? So bring them to your topic where you have immense knowledge and advantage. But one thing you have to keep in mind while doing this is to be really subtle. If not people will again come to the same topic.
Other thing I suggest you to do is..
Know your surroundings
Having a knowledge is a boon. So I prefer you to have good reading and research skills. Always read about something and be curious of things around you. And be a good listener. Ask doubts when people are talking to you. That not only makes you smarter but it also makes the speaker more motivated to speak to you.
Imagine this. You speak less and listens alot. You open your mouth and give detailed explanations and wisdoms where you have the advantage than anybody else. You know about this specific topic more than anyone else. Nobody remembers the moments when you didn’t say anything or kept quite and listened. People remember you for the things they heard from you. So even if you left 8 out of 10 conversations, the remaining 2 will be clear and comprehensive and people will have a good image of you because of this. It worked for me and I guess it wil also work for you!
It’s not actually tricking as it sound.
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