Amy Cuddy, PhD, is an American social psychologist, Harvard lecturer, and bestselling author. She is best known for her research into power posing, the act of standing in a posture that engenders feelings of power and confidence.
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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.
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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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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Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become.
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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.
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.
Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research, Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success. Rather, the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit.
Focus less on the impression you’re making on others and more on the impression you’re making on yourself.
Amy Cuddy explains how our own presence and authenticity with others makes it so much easier for them to reciprocate, to be present and authentic with us-and why that matters.
We give Amy Cuddy 30 seconds to describe power poses, and she tells us we should all stand like Wonder Woman.
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Don’t fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become.
