High status is something you can only control to a limited degree, especially when you are trying to do things that have an immediate effect rather than doing thigns that gain status in the long run. Acting confident certainly helps, but it won’t help by so much that you can get away with wearing a clown suit because you’re acting confident. What will happen is that instead of confidence making the clown suit work, the clown suit will make the confidence fail.
Fedoras aren’t quite clown suits, but still, you can see how they worked, which is “not well”.
None of the ideas you’re saying are completely wrong, but you’re wrong about how they balance against each other.
High status is something you can only control to a limited degree, especially when you are trying to do things that have an immediate effect rather than doing thigns that gain status in the long run. Acting confident certainly helps, but it won’t help by so much that you can get away with wearing a clown suit because you’re acting confident. What will happen is that instead of confidence making the clown suit work, the clown suit will make the confidence fail.
Fedoras aren’t quite clown suits, but still, you can see how they worked, which is “not well”.
None of the ideas you’re saying are completely wrong, but you’re wrong about how they balance against each other.
… did you read the section after that one?