Thirdborns can get very good at making the room wake up. The cost shows up when your authority keeps auditioning for attention.

Power posing in a bathroom stall is asking posture to override a pattern that lives deeper than posture. When the strategy dissolves the second the room gets loud, your body is telling you which layer needs the work.

The room already knows you’re competent. The sharper work is getting your body to stop handing back authority in six-inch increments.