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Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy | Summary & Highlights
Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges by Amy Cuddy | Summary & Highlights - NOT ORIGINAL BOOK
Amy Cuddy is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history. She is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments influence people.
Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Wired, Fast Company, and more.
In Presence, we learn how the nature of the poses we make influence how powerful or powerless we felt and how willing we are then to take risks, for more money, even changing our hormone levels (testosterone and cortisol) associated with confidence and anxiety, respectively.
This relationship exists regardless of gender, professional position, or cultural background. Poses and posture effect how we feel, think about ourselves, make us more likely to assert ourselves, seize opportunities, increases feelings of physical strength.
Power poses toughen you to physical pain, allowing us to achieve presence during our biggest challenges. This also works mentally, just by picturing a Wonder Woman or Starfish Up pose in our minds.
Let your body tell you that you are powerful so you can become authentically yourself.
Inside this SUMMARY READS Summary & Highlights of Presence:
Summary of Each Chapter
Highlights (Best Quotes)
BONUS: Free Report about Vladimir Putin (find out about the mysterious deaths of his enemies -
http://sixfigureteen.com/summaryreads).
Amy Cuddy is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history. She is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments influence people.
Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Wired, Fast Company, and more.
In Presence, we learn how the nature of the poses we make influence how powerful or powerless we felt and how willing we are then to take risks, for more money, even changing our hormone levels (testosterone and cortisol) associated with confidence and anxiety, respectively.
This relationship exists regardless of gender, professional position, or cultural background. Poses and posture effect how we feel, think about ourselves, make us more likely to assert ourselves, seize opportunities, increases feelings of physical strength.
Power poses toughen you to physical pain, allowing us to achieve presence during our biggest challenges. This also works mentally, just by picturing a Wonder Woman or Starfish Up pose in our minds.
Let your body tell you that you are powerful so you can become authentically yourself.
Inside this SUMMARY READS Summary & Highlights of Presence:
Summary of Each Chapter
Highlights (Best Quotes)
BONUS: Free Report about Vladimir Putin (find out about the mysterious deaths of his enemies -
http://sixfigureteen.com/summaryreads).
49 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 30, 2015
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March 3, 2020
A mix of self help and real scientific research, sometimes aspirational at others informative.
In general I felt this book was much better than the average self help book and covered interesting material. The book looks at sense of presence as a means to achieve a more assertive position with respect to everyday challenges, in this sense it has a philosophical component as much as psychological and self-help improvement road map.
The problem with the text is that there are circular arguments presented as explanation. A certain behaviour means you are X and if you are X you have that behaviour but this does not in any way mean that we all feel X the same way inside.
Other than this incompleteness at the information level the book is quite a good read.
In general I felt this book was much better than the average self help book and covered interesting material. The book looks at sense of presence as a means to achieve a more assertive position with respect to everyday challenges, in this sense it has a philosophical component as much as psychological and self-help improvement road map.
The problem with the text is that there are circular arguments presented as explanation. A certain behaviour means you are X and if you are X you have that behaviour but this does not in any way mean that we all feel X the same way inside.
Other than this incompleteness at the information level the book is quite a good read.
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