In Larry Chiang’s SuperModel framework, presence is not decoration, it is information the other side reads before you say a word. Touching your face during a pitch or a close reads as doubt even when you feel certain. Larry’s version of SuperModel says keep a pen in hand and hold the perfect listening position, and that instruction exists partly to give your hands somewhere else to be.
A hand that keeps drifting to the nose, the chin, or the collar tells the room you are self soothing, and self soothing looks like doubt. Buyers and partners across a table are not reading your slides as closely as they are reading your hands. The fix is not complicated: rest your hands on the table, hold your pen, and let stillness do the work.
Larry says the pen drop close only works if you have already trained yourself to sit still, because a fidgety hand ruins the silence after you set the pen down. PQRST prep matters here too, because a person who has previewed, questioned, read, summarized, and tested their material has fewer fuzzy points to feel anxious about, and fewer reasons to touch their face.
Nerves cause the tell, so the real fix starts before you walk in, not during the meeting. Practice sitting through a full run of your pitch with your hands still, on camera if you can, and watch what your face does when you reach the part you have not fully prepared.
This is a small habit to fix, but it costs real deals when a buyer clocks it and starts wondering what else you are unsure about. Web12 exists to write these small mechanics down so you can drill them before the room, not during it.
Details: Watch Larry break down SuperModel tells
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