Elizabeth Abathan

“Presence isn’t about pretending to be competent; it’s about believing in and revealing the abilities you truly have. It’s about shedding whatever is blocking you from expressing who you are. It’s about tricking yourself into accepting that you are indeed capable. Sometimes”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“When we are truly present in a challenging moment, our verbal and nonverbal communication flows. We are no longer occupying a discombobulated mental state — as I was on that ill-fated elevator ride — simultaneously analyzing what we think others think of us, what we said a minute earlier, and what we think they will think of us after we leave, all while frantically trying to adjust what we’re saying and doing to create the impression we think they want to see. Usually our words are relatively easy to”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“Anxiety gets sticky and destructive when we start becoming anxious about being anxious. Paradoxically, anxiety also makes us more self-centered, since when we’re acutely anxious, we obsess over ourselves and what others think of us.23”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

“It was divine because it was exactly you. It was the very best you—the strongest most generous you.”
― Amy Cuddy, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges