Do you keep shaking your legs when you are sitting? Or are you one of those who doesn’t - and finds it highly irritating when someone does it? Well, here’s the thing.
Shaking your legs when sitting has many connotations, from sheer etiquette to deeper psychological and physiological signs.
According to etiquette coach Ziying Zhou, “Shaking your legs is a sign of poor manners, it is also a body language cue that reveals anxiety, impatience and irritation; it leaves a bad first impression and could potentially cost you your professional career; in certain cultures, there’s a superstition that shaking legs is akin to shaking your wealth away.”
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Shaking your legs when sitting has many connotations, from sheer etiquette to deeper psychological and physiological signs.
According to etiquette coach Ziying Zhou, “Shaking your legs is a sign of poor manners, it is also a body language cue that reveals anxiety, impatience and irritation; it leaves a bad first impression and could potentially cost you your professional career; in certain cultures, there’s a superstition that shaking legs is akin to shaking your wealth away.”
Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/uae/watch-is-shaking-your-legs-when-sitting-bad-1.97570691
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00:00Four reasons why shaking your legs while sitting is a really bad idea from etiquette and cultural perspective
00:09Hello everyone, my name is Yiying, I'm an international etiquette and life skills coach. Today
00:14I'm going to share with you four reasons why shaking your legs while sitting is a really bad idea from etiquette and
00:21cultural perspective. Number one, it's considered really bad manners
00:26When you're shaking legs in front of others, it's a sign of irritation and impatience
00:31It shows that you do not want to be present
00:33It does not make people feel comfortable around you and it's not very respectful
00:38Number two, it doesn't leave a good impression of you on others
00:41It only takes seven seconds for someone to have a first impression of you
00:46And did you know that 55% of that first impression comes from visual image, which is largely your body language
00:54So if you're shaking your legs in front of others
00:56People would have already made an assumption about you even before you had the chance to speak. Number three
01:02It's not very good for your personal brand and reputation, especially in a professional setting. Shaking legs shows that you're anxious
01:10Nervous or even arrogant and it also shows you're lacking the basic self-control
01:16So it could easily impact your ability to get hired for a new job, to get a promotion or build
01:22connections with your clients and your manager. Last but not least
01:26Did you know that this is considered really bad luck in many Asian cultures? In China, for example
01:32Shaking legs means you're shaking your good fortunes away. And in Japan, this is considered extremely bad
01:39They even have a term for it, bingbu yusuri, which means poor person's shake
01:46They believe that people who cannot afford warm clothes in winter or people who have too much spare time to kill
01:52will be shaking their legs. And here's the thing, they won't even tell you
01:58In cultures like China and Japan, the style of communication is considered high context
02:04So they won't be very direct with you. So it's best to learn about those cultural taboos well in advance
02:10Hope you learned something new today