185: Dr. Anna Akbari: The Definitive Guide To Building Your Personal Image Through Style
Legendary Life | Transform Your Body, Upgrade Your Health & Live Your Best Life
Ted Ryce
4.8 • 848 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2016
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
We've all heard the saying that we shouldn't judge a book by it's cover. And that we shouldn't judge each other solely based on how we dress or groom ourselves. The reality is that we all judge each other all the time based on our visual appearance. In this episode, sociologist Dr. Anna Akbari will talk about how you can increase your personal power and charisma simply by grooming and dressing better. She'll go into the science of why some of our tendency to judge is hardwired in our biology as well as the cultural factors influencing perception. Learn how to take control of your appearance to promote yourself in a successful way.
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| 0:00.0 | What does your personal style and image say about you, your level of status and power your level of trustworthiness your level |
| 0:18.2 | of professionalism and more and that is the topic of today's interview with Dr. Anna Akbari. |
| 0:27.0 | She's a sociologist, an entrepreneur, a writer, a thinking person stylist. She is the founder of sociology of style which takes a deeper look into image and culture related issues. Unlike most traditional stylists who may give you superficial advice like, |
| 0:47.0 | oh, wear some color to stand out or, you know, this particular piece of clothing is really in style. |
| 0:56.4 | Dr. Anna looks at the social significance of the way you present yourself and she will ask you to rethink who you are, what your image |
| 1:07.3 | says about yourself and she will help you to align your personal and professional goals with your personal image. |
| 1:16.0 | This goes way beyond what's trendy or what's fashionable. |
| 1:21.1 | This is about what you're saying to the world. |
| 1:24.0 | And as you may have heard, most of our communication is nonverbal. |
| 1:29.0 | It's our eye contact. |
| 1:31.0 | It's the tone of our voice. It's our mannerisms. It's our body language. But it's also our visual |
| 1:39.5 | appearance. And Dr. Anna Akbari is here today to help you optimize your image so that you have the most |
| 1:49.3 | opportunities in your life and this is a simple way of doing it while it may take a lot of time to work |
| 1:56.0 | out to see changes in your body while it may take a long time to practice public speaking and the spoken communication skills. You can take your |
| 2:07.7 | style to the next level very quickly if you apply the principles that she's going to be talking about today. |
| 2:17.1 | So enjoy this episode with Dr. Anna Akbari on how to improve your personal power and charisma with style. Thank you Ted. It's really great to talk. Welcome to the Legendary Life Podcast. |
| 2:43.0 | Thank you, Ted. |
| 2:44.0 | It's really great to talk to you. |
| 2:46.0 | Absolutely. I'm really looking forward to this conversation |
| 2:50.0 | because we're going to be talking about sociology, we're going to be talking about sociology, |
| 2:53.2 | we're going to be talking about style, |
| 2:55.3 | and you have this approach to image to style |
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