Date post: | 12-Aug-2015 |
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How important is it for YOU ?
Non Verbal actions (like FACIAL EXPRESSIONS) reveal glimpses of character and shape perceptions about how people are perceived.
Nonverbal expressions of
power and
dominance
In the animal kingdom,
they are about expanding..
It's about opening up.
If someone is being really powerful with us, we tend to make ourselves smaller. We don't mirror them. We do the opposite of them. We wrap ourselves up.
This power pose is called "pride". Blind people do it when
they're victorious in events, even when they've never seen it
or been taught to do it.
For example, a 1-second glimpse of a candidate's face allows people to predict the winner of 70% of Senate and Gubernatorial races.
In an experiment conducted by Amy Cuddy and her colleagues, people
adopted, for two minutes, either high-power poses or low-power
poses.
Then they asked them, "How powerful do you feel?"
In her TED talk, Amy Cuddy shares some of her life’s experiences and how she overcame all odds to be successful.
FAKE IT until you BECOME IT.