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Your body language shapes
who you are
A Motivational Talk
By-Amy Cuddy
Created By: Dipanshu Sehjal
IIIT Allahabad
We are very fascinated by body language, particularly in other people’s body language.
When we talk about body language , we mean the non verbal communication.
Communication means Interaction
Non Verbal Communication
What does your body communicates to me?What does my body
communicates to you?
We make judgements from body languages
What non-verbals are we talking
about ?
Expressions of Power and Dominance
Arms wide opened in V-shape
Expressions of Power and Dominance
Chin high
We open upStretch to showDominance and Power
And when we are powerless or less
confident
What happens when High power and low power are put together ?
If someone is being really powerfulwith us
We tend to make ourselves smaller
We don’t mirror them
Powerful Minds vs
Powerless Minds
Powerful Minds are
More Assertive
More Confident
More Optimistic
We know that our minds change our bodies
But……
Does our bodies change our minds ?
Let’s Find it out…..
Amy Cuddy relates it with the extent of participation
But is it possible to get people to fake it and would it lead them to
participate more ?
Can you fake it till you make it ?
When you pretend to be powerful, you are more likely to actually feel powerful
Now the question is ……
Does our bodies change our minds ?
There is some sort of Physiological things that makes up thoughts and feelings-Hormones
Testosterone- Dominance HormoneCortisol- Stress Hormone
Study says that Powerful male have high level of Testosterone and low level of Cortisol
So Power is not only about dominance It is also about how you react to stress.
Amy Cuddy conducted one experiment on few
individuals
She asked them to either adopt high power pose
Or low Power pose for two minutes.
And Gave them an opportunity to gamble
It was found out that when you are in the High Power pose condition 86% chances are that you will gamble whereas when you are in low Power pose only 40% chances that you will gamble.
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Also the Testosterone levels got increased by 25 percent and Cortisol Levels got decreased by 20 percent in High Power pose condition.
So it is evident now that pose conditions lead to these hormonal changes that configure your brain to basically either confident, assertive and comfortable or really stress-reactive.
And YES our non verbals govern how we think and feel about ourselves
Now the question is can Power posing for afew minutes can really change your life in meaningful ways ?
Lets Take one more Case
What do you do before you go into a job interview ?
You do this ..
Amy Cuddy conducts one more test.She brings people to lab and ask them to opt HIGH Power pose for few minutes and feel to be powerful.
Then they go through a stressful job interview……
They out performed the other candidates. They felt more powerful and more confident than before. They felt more comfortable.
So what’s driving it ?
It is not about the content of the speech…
It is all about the PRESENCE they are bringing to the speech.
Always Remember
Don’t fake it till you make it
Fake it till you become it
So before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation
Take out just two minutes.Configure your mind to cope the
best in that situation
Don’t leave that situation feeling
I didn’t show them who I am .
Leave that situation feeling like
I showed who I am.
Created By: Dipanshu Sehjal, IIIT Allahabad
During an Internship by Prof. Sameer MathurIIM Lucknowwww.IIMInternship.com