your body shapes who you are

YOUR BODY SHAPES WHO YOU ARE

Based on TED talk by Amy Cuddy

We are fascinated by body language.

NON-VERBAL communication ---BODY LANGUAGE.

What is your body language communicating to others and vice versa.

An awkward handshake An awkward interaction

An inappropriate wink

ALL Matters… We make sweeping judgments from body language.

Whom we hire or promote Whom we will date

Non-verbal expression of POWER and DOMINANCE

We feel powerful we expand up.

We feel powerless we wrap up.

Women feel chronically less powerful than men.

Our non-verbals govern how others think and feel about us

ButDo our non-verbals govern

how WE think and feel about ourselves?

We smile when we feel happy.

If we are forced to smile by holding pen in our teeth…

It make us feel happy.

When you pretend to be powerful you start feeling POWERFUL!!!

POWERFUL PEOPLE ARE● ASSERTIVE● CONFIDENT● THINK ABSTRACTLY● TAKE MORE RISK

TESTOSTERONE: Dominance hormone

CORTISOL: Stress hormone

Powerful people have high testosterone and less cortisol.

Let us do an activity...

For two min. be in each HIGH POWER POSES and LOW POWER POSES.

HIGH POWER POSES

LOW POWER POSES

Thus we observed…

Being in a high power pose

● We take more risk.● Our testosterone level rises. ● Our cortisol level decreases.

So Power posing for few minutes can really change our lives in meaningful ways.

OUR BODIES CHANGE OUR MINDS AND OUR MINDS CHANGE OUR BEHAVIOUR AND OUR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE OUR OUTCOMES.

If we try to FAKE being powerful then we can surely be

more POWERFUL.

So before anything important like an interview, have a two min. show of WHO I AM.

Try a POWER POSE.

because…TINY TWEAKS

BIG CHANGES

Don’t FAKE till you make it…

FAKE it till you

BECOME it.

Created by:

Saumya Gupta,NIT Surat, during an internship by Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow.

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