Words matter. These are the best Amy Cuddy Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It’s nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what’s happening on the research front.
Authenticity doesn’t just mean you’re not filtering what you’re saying, it’s about being able to know and access the best parts of yourself and bring them forward.
You have to buy what you’re selling. If you don’t buy what you’re selling, nobody will.
If you’re going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are?
Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.
When you have a novel, exciting finding, that gets attention. People are going to push back, and that’s honestly how science should work.
Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.
Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also governs how we perceive ourselves and how those perceptions become reinforced through our own behavior, our interactions, and even our physiology.
When we’re sad, we slouch. We also slouch when we feel scared or powerless.
The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.
People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves.
There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe.
Politicians are very experienced – maybe too experienced – at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.
Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.
A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it’s fair to say, incontestable. And it’s doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges.
A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.
What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages.
