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BODY LANGUAGE: Act Powerful to Think Powerful
Based on the TED Talk by Amy Cuddy
Amy Cuddy, Social Psychologist
BODY LANGUAGE CAN MAKE ORBREAK YOU
A Handshake Or the lack of it..
A SMILE OR A SCOWL…
55% of people’s impressions is shaped by your body language
Non verbal cues
play a decisive role
in shaping workplace
power dynamics
WHAT IF
YOU CAN CHANGE YOUR BODY LANGUAGE
TO SHAPE YOUR THINKING?
AMY CUDDY’S RESEARCH SHOWS THAT
WHEN YOU FEEL POWERFUL
Testosterone Dominance
Cortisol Stress
You stretch out
AND WHEN YOU DON’T…
Cortisol Stress
Testosterone Dominanace
You try to make yourself smaller
CAN YOU FAKE IT
TO MAKE IT?
Researchers ask test subjects to adopt high and low power poses for two minutes
TEST 1
RESULTS
1. Risk Tolerance
Testosterone
OUR BODIES CHANGE OUR MINDS!
YOU CAN
CHANGE YOUR BODY
TO CHANGE YOUR MIND!
CAN POWER POSINGCHANGE YOUR LIFE IN MEANINGFUL WAYS?
NO, THIS WON’T HELP YOU!
..LIKE HELP YOU LAND YOUR DREAM JOB AT THE INTERVIEW?
TEST 2
Researchers ask test subjects to adopt high or low power poses before they appear for the interview
RESULTS
• Interviewers favored those who had practised the high power pose over the low power posers!
• And it had to do with their “presence”, than their content
Body changes the mind
Mind changes behaviour
Behaviour changes outcomes
RECAP
CHANGE YOUR LIFE OUTCOMES BY CHANGING YOUR BODY LANGUAGE!
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT!BECOME
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