How to Grow Taller In Other People’s Eyes

Before we even get into the discussion on how you can grow taller in peoples’ eyes’ it would be important for us to start with an appreciation of why you would want to look taller in other peoples’ eyes in the first place.

As it turns out the being perceived as ‘tall’ by other people can confer to you a number of great advantages. For starters – and there are no prices for guessing this’ other people are likely to start respecting you more’ at a subconscious level’ if they start to perceive you as tall. It is an inbuilt thing’ and it always works: that we are primitively wired to feel more inclined to respect taller people than shorter people. A shorter person can still get respected’ it is true’ but he or she will have to work harder for that respect’ whereas a taller person is respected almost by default.

Being perceived as tall could also aid you in the dating game too: seeing that people are more inclined to choose ‘taller mates’ whenever they have an option between a taller person and a shorter person for a sexual mate. For men (who are more quantitative’ rather than qualitative in their selection of mates) this is less obvious’ because a woman of any height is sure to still find suitors. But for women’ well’ let’s just say that it is very clear where the preference lies: in taller men of course; leading to a situation where conspicuously taller men tend to find themselves overwhelmed with female attention’ even as their shorter counterparts struggle to get even a hint of such attention. And at work’ taller people find the climb on the corporate ladder much easier than shorter people’ though it takes a very keen person to notice this trend which has subconscious roots.

Unfortunately’ height tends to be some of those factors that are determined by genetics more than anything else’ so that if you were created to be a short person’ you might find yourself unable to add more than just a few inches to your height even with the best of efforts.

Thankfully though’ height also tends to be more about perception’ than about ‘reality.’ Have you ever noticed that some people we consider tall are actually midgets when objectively measured’ whereas some people we consider really short turn out to be actually people of average heights (or even above average heights)’ only that they come across as ’somehow short’ to us?

The truth of the matter is that there are measures you can take to appear taller to other people (with the respect’ and subsequent success that such a perception is likely to cause you)’ without even adding an inch to your actual physical stature.

One way to appear taller to other people is by working on your posture’ stopping slouching or stooping – and thence walking and sitting straight. It is all about ‘walking tall’ and it can actually make a very short person look relatively tall.

Another way to appear taller to other people is by wearing clothes that make you come across as taller than you actually are. Vertically stripped clothes are a great tool in this endeavor’ as are those shoes that are known to add up to an inch to the wearer’s height without making them look clownish.