How to look smarter than you really are

Well, when you're competent and confident worker. But during the meeting or meetings of the pressure is so great that inevitably lose the remnants of reason. Layfhaker shares his advice on how to look smart, even when the cerebellum refuses to work.

Employee of the Month Want to look at each meeting? We'll have to roll up our sleeves and work. Of course, it would not hurt to engage self-development and professional development, but today we are gathered not for this purpose. We will learn to imitate the violent activities and look very smart.

1. Go to fetch water. Be helpful

Someone needs something? Water? Coffee? Tea? Snack? Maybe after all the tea?

Before the meeting begins, get up and ask that someone needed. People think you are so kind and caring! In addition, you will be able to disappear from the conference room for ten minutes. Even if anyone did not need to go away and come back with a couple of bottles of water.

Put a water bottle on the table, and your colleagues will feel the need to take a sip. Your insight will be impressed by them. It seems that you are able to predict the future.

2. Take a sheet of paper and start writing

It is best suitable for paper records. Grab several of these small leaves and start to write something, until the chief tells us what will be discussed at the meeting. Your colleagues will look at you with interest. It seems that you know what will be speaking today, and your ideas are so complicated and layered that you took several leaves.

Besides, you look like a man who is willing to support the theme of the meeting before the agenda will announce to everyone.

3. Drawing an analogy. The simpler, the better

Sagely said: "So, we have bread. We need oil. What. This. Oil?"

When everyone is trying to describe the essence of the problem, begin to draw analogies. The simpler, the better. Your colleagues will nod your head, even if you do not understand, what are you talking about. You will look creative, Smart, strategic thinking man. Even if in fact you're just like bread and butter.

4. Ask if the questions we ask ourselves the right

There is nothing that will help you look smarter, as the question of whether we ask the right questions. If someone asks what it is that you think the right question, proudly replied: "You have just asked him."

A nice bonus: a brief guide for the destruction of small ideas

Ask questions that literally destroy any initiative in the bud. Use one of these templates.

• This is the future?
• And what do we win?
• Is it not yet made Apple?

5. use idioms

Idioms need to build in question, to look smart and insightful. For example, you can use them so.

• It seems to me it's like a gun on sparrows shoot.
• You do not think it will be as dead poultices?
• Why are you asking for trouble?

6. Invent yourself an unusual habit with which you "awaken creativity"

Invent itself unusual, and even eccentric habit, if you are using for the awakening of creativity in itself. To convince others that this ritual helps you generate new ideas.

Change clothes at lunchtime in pajamas, meditate on the floor, run on the spot, throw a ball against the wall, the air Drum favorite drumsticks. You can do everything at once.

Even if a creative idea does not come to mind, you will definitely impress others.

A nice bonus: a brief guide to the destruction of big ideas

Gently you ask whether this idea is too ambitious. Then your boss will appreciate how much you care about the company's resources.

Use similar expressions:

• It is not too?
• This is combined with our plan?
• It is you are targeting the international market, right?

7. Say what you think, would be the chief said

Make your colleagues think you are cramped and a lot of communicating with superiors. Voiced what, in your opinion, would the boss said. Call him by name in a conversation with colleagues. Tell me, what will give the team chief of opinion at the meeting. Sooner or later, people will think you are at least the right hand boss.

8. Say what you need to develop your own platform or model

Confidently say: "We need a proprietary platform."

Your colleagues will think you think globally, than anyone else. Do you want to develop the company. Do you think strategically about the future. It is very convenient and easy way to literally "blow up the brain" colleagues and to disguise the fact that you do not understand what people are talking about.

9. When someone likes the idea, shout, "Give two!"

Sooner or later you will come to the point where the surrounding unanimously approved an idea. You just have to seize the moment, and the first to say something like, "Screw!" Or, "Give two!". First, people will laugh. Secondly, you will attract attention and help you decide superiors. Thus, you will like, and colleagues, and before the chief pokrasuetes.

Voila!