Ways To Upgrade Your Status

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The way you project your status has very little to do with how rich your family is or how much of a snob you can manage to act like. In this context, we're talking about the often-silent social cues we all display that give other people some idea of how to treat or react to us.

What we're not talking about on this list of ways to project a higher status is buying a bunch of the stuff you ordinarily associate as "high status" in the hopes that you'll be confused for royalty. The goal is for you to be aware of these indicators and to make use of them when it's appropriate, and to be afforded more dignity and respect in everyday life.

Neither are we talking about just being horrible to people in order to display that they're beneath you -- many of these tips are based on social hierarchy, but deliberately trying to look superior to everybody isn't going to work at all. With these ways to project a higher status, we want you to be able to illustrate your confidence, not to illustrate everyone else's inadequacy.

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