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Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED

TED · 29.4M views · 2012-10-01 · 21:03

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Amy Cuddy's TED talk arguing that adopting expansive postures, or power posing, can boost feelings of confidence and affect success. A note on the video points to the later reproducibility debate over its findings.

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HN brings it up in threads about impostor syndrome, confidence, and body language as an interesting talk on faking it until you feel it.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2013–2021

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chiefalchemist · 2021-03 · Recommendation

It might be. I bumped into this last week and I found it fascinating. Long to short, your body language not only affects how others perceive you, it affects how you perceive you. [VIDEO] That aside, I'm reading Adam Grants "Think Again." He mentioned at least one study where appearing infallible can be a bad thing. That you can become less believable, less likeable and so on. There's more to influencing others than coming across as Mr / Ms Know-it-all. Showing too much confidence can work against you.

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ndonnellan · 2013-02 · Recommendation

I am reminded of this interesting talk by Amy Cuddy on body language: [VIDEO] Most of it is not directly related (still worth watching!), but at about 15:42 in she gives her personal anecdote of impostor syndrome and "faking it til you make it". Which, incidentally, I think applies well to entrepreneurs.

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zxcvvcxz · 2013-09 · Reference

"Fake it till you become it." This is the path I've been on for the last 5 years, and only now am I finally starting to feel a little "natural" in some core social competencies. But man is it exhausting! All the micromangaging, analyzing, calibrating, and mental preparation. I often require more sleep as a result, guess the brain needs that to adapt. Related vid: [VIDEO]

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