 Gee the popular demand we're back with another Conan McGregor video and this time we're going to look at his confidence What makes him so confident and how can you apply it? We're gonna look at three main areas here body language speech and mindset So let's dive right in one thing that you notice about McGregor is that he's at ease in any social interaction He's very comfortable. He takes up a lot of space and he looks like he's just chilling at his own house This is a trait of many confident people they don't worry about being around other people They feel at ease in any social interactions. They can kick back Take up the space they need and feel comfortable. I want you to pay very close attention to this clip Look at how much room Con McGregor is taking up. He does this all the time Look at him flaring his elbows out as he's speaking I want you to compare this to his opponent and tell me who you think absolutely everything I believe inside one minute I will dust him. I will exit the contest fresh. I will cast a check I will sign the next contract for USC 200 the brand-new MGM and we'll go again 2015 was my year 2016 is also my year every year is my fucking year I beat Ben Henderson Nadia's Anthony Paddy's Donald Serrani twice And I fought as you can see Raphael clearly does not want to be there. He's insecure He's keeping his hands underneath the table taking up as little room as possible And it looks like he's trying to hide as he's defending himself defending his honor as the champion He's looking down. He's even doubting himself. The problem with bad body language is that it creates a negative feedback loop Creates a negative feedback loop in which our bad body language starts making us feel bad Making us less confident and then we have worse body language and just continues down that negative cycle Good body language is the opposite Conor McGregor in this scenario is gaining more power is gaining more energy He's open body language is taking up space is making them feel more confident. It's increasing. It's testosterone lowering cortisol There's actually been research done by Amy Cuddy and she had a very popular TED talk about this about how your body language Can influence you about how taking up power poses can influence you into having more success into having more confidence In Amy Cuddy's research She has a range of power poses that have been induces to increase into sorcerer levels the common Characteristic trait of these power poses is that they take up a lot of room and make you feel more at ease more confident I have a theory that McGregor's McGregor walk is perhaps the most ultimate power pose because just look at it He's flaring his arms left to right He's looking up in the sky and just kind of tamed the idea. He doesn't give a fuck. That's the idea of a power pose You take up as much room as possible and get yourself in that zone During social interactions, many people speak in a rush They are nervous and want to get their point across as quickly as possible to remove the spotlight from them They have this innate fear that if they don't say what they have to say quickly that they will be ignored Confident people do the opposite Confident people are deliberate with their delivery. They take their time They make sure they think out what they're going to say and they say it nice and slowly so that other person can understand There is no fear of being ignored They know that what they're saying is valuable so that they feel more comfortable in saying it Conor McGregor does this all the time You see when he's responding to a lot of people's comments when he has something that he has to say He'll be very deliberate with his delivery who plan out each word even if he makes a mistake He would just take the sentence back and keep on going to him. There is no pressure There's never pressure confidence comes from my work ethic. That's it. I Know the work I'm putting in like I will be back here. It's now 20 past seven I will be back here at about 11 20 Which is six and a half hours post the previous workout You must take six hours you must take a minimum of six hours to replenish the glycogen levels You can't train five Because the glycogen levels don't restore must be a minimum of six. So we'll be back here about half 11 tonight We'll do a second workout and we're preparing correct and we're preparing hard That is when my confidence comes from another characteristic of confident people is the ability to maintain strong eye contact Being able to look somewhere in the face is incredibly powerful Especially because not too many people can do it. Not too many people can hold eye contact while they're talking to you people have fear and When they are looking into your eyes that fear is revealed that vulnerability appears. So they look away Confident people have no such fear. What is there to be scared of in social interactions? Nothing They'll look at you say what they have to say and maintain good eye contact I will create traps and dead space inside that octagon all over all over the place And I will walk him into it like a zombie. That is what I plan to do with Jose I plan to set him up trap him I will create traps and dead space inside that octagon and I will walk him into that dead space But all of a sudden he will be in danger How do you do that? How do you connect these if you can see it here and you have the courage enough to speak it It will happen. So I see these shots. I see these sequences and I don't shy away from them All that matters is how you see yourself If you see yourself as the king, you know, you see yourself with all the belts and all all everything And no matter what no one else says as long as you see that and really believe in it That's what's gonna happen. You can tell you otherwise. Who says what way you see things Who says what you see out of your eyes? I saw myself in that light. I saw myself as the as the number one I saw myself the champion. The last tool is Visualization that visualization is a tool that is underutilized by so many people, but it's incredibly Effective Conor McGregor is a big proponent of visualization. He follows the law of attraction He talks about how he visualizes how his fights are going to end how he's gonna perform in the fights He visualizes how he's gonna conduct himself before public speeches. He visualizes his outfit everything what he'll be driving vividly Confident people use the theater of their mind as Napoleon Hill said in his book thinking great rich You practice in your mind over and over and over and over again Until it actually is part of you until when it's time to go. It's automatic It's in your subconscious mind, which ever understands the subconscious mind There's no difference between the real and the fake if you keep repeating something to it. It becomes so real So confident people visualize their success they visualize how they can contact themselves the best example I can give you of this is the movie fight club. It was the protagonist created this image There's a vision of himself Tyler Dutton Now Tyler Dutton was Everything that the protagonist wanted to be you have to do the same Envision what you would do if you were your best self if you were the most confident version of yourself How would you conduct your public speeches? How would you conduct your conversations with people? How would you carry yourself? What are body language will you have do this over and over again? And you will become that character. That's what Conor McGregor has done. So Visualization is a big key. Just remember that these tips are not limited to Conor McGregor Anybody can improve their body language by taking up power poses and feeling more at ease in any social interaction Anybody can learn to speak better but be more deliberate in their delivery taking pauses and improving their cadence and Anybody can learn to visualize their success into the real world By practicing with their creative imagination your confidence is up to you. So what are you going to do about it?