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Power Poses: The Secret to Confidence & Success:
Can Changing your posture Change Your Life? Amy Cuddy, a Social Physiologist, explain in her TED Tlak "Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are" that how hold our bodies affects not just how others perceive us, how we see ourselves.
She introduce ideas that Power Poses - Expansive, Open Body Posture - Bosst Confidence and Reduce stree and felling Nervous in Two minutes. This simple tricks can make a big difference in job interview, meetings, Events and daily life.
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The Science Behind Power Posing
Her research found that adopting power poses can actually change our hormone levels.
✅ Increase Testosterone - Boost confidence and assertiveness.
✅ Decrease Cortisol - Reduce stress and anxiety
Ever Noticed how you sit when you're nervous? Do you shrink, cross your arms, or hunch over?
- The small behaviour making you feel less confident.
💡Tips: Before an important event, instead of looking your phone. Find your comfort place like elevator, Wash room, Behind the door, something and Try standing in power pose (Hands on hips feet apart) for just two minutes.
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Imposter Syndrome:
Many people, even successful ones, experience imposter syndrome - the feeling that they don't belong or aren't good enough.
Cuddy shares her personal experience: After suffering brain injury, she felt like she didn't belong to Harvest. But instead of giving up, she acted confident until she actually became confident.
❓Have your ever felt like a fraud, even when you've earned your success? How did you deal with it?
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"Fake It Till You Become It" :
Instead of faking confidence, Cuddy encourages us to practice confidence until it feels real.
✅ Even if you don't feel powerful, act as if you do.
✅ Your body can train your brain to believe yourself.
❓Have your ever doubted yourself in a situation? How did you push through it?
💡Tips: Start acting confident until you become it
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Small Action, Big changes:
You don't need to wait for confidence to come - your body can create it for you!
💡Tips:
✅ An interview - stand in power pose for 2 minutes.
✅ A big presentation - use open gesture, take up space.
✅ A stressful meeting - sit within an upright posture.
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The Key Message - "Tiny Tweaks Lead To Big Changes" :
Your body language can transform the way you feel and the way other preceive you.
✅ Hold your head high.
✅ Take up space.
✅ Act Confident, and confidence will follow.
What's one situation in your life where you'll try power posing?
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