How To Command Respect If You’re Quiet
Speak Slowly and Use Pauses Between Words
Similar to his slow relaxed body language tommy also has a slow speaking cadence and uses pauses between words to hold attention the pause is the moment when you’re not speaking but ironically it’s the moment you can pull people in tommy does this by pausing when you most want to hear what he has to say
You may worry that speaking slowly and pausing a lot will lead to people cutting you off the way you can prevent this isn’t by rushing to finish or giving up on your thought halfway through but by continuing to speak in that same slow speaking cadence until you’re at least finished your sentence watch this next clip as an example you can model for context that ticking in the background is a bomb
There’s one more important thing to cover when talking about why tommy shelby commands so much respect he doesn’t have to shout or raise his voice because either he knows what you desperately want and can give it to you or he knows what you desperately fear and can prevent it so his quiet words carry massive weight.
Tommy projects confidence because of everything we’ve spoken about so far in this video but why is he able to be so calm and non-reactive under pressure because he knows he’s not actually in danger.