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Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless.
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Amy Cuddy’s TED talk on the benefits of power posing garnered over 46 million views and became the second-most-popular TED talk in history. Then everything changed when Cuddy’s research was attacked by her fellow social psychologists.
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that "power posing"-standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident-can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for success.
A truly confident person does not require arrogance, which is nothing more than a smoke screen for insecurity.
Speaker: Amy Cuddy, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Author Topic: "Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges" (Little, Brown, 2015) Leadership Experts Speaker Series @ Rotman March 4, 2016
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Some of life’s biggest hurdles call for moments of sincerity and control. Too often, we approach these high-pressure moments with fear and execute with anxiety.
We give Amy Cuddy 30 seconds to describe power poses, and she tells us we should all stand like Wonder Woman.
A confident person—knowing and believing in her identity—carries tools, not weapons.
Entrepreneurs’ grounded enthusiasm is contagious, stimulating a high level of commitment, confidence, passion, and performance in the people who work for and with them.
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