Amy Cuddy

Your body language shapes who you are

— Amy Cuddy

Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

— Amy Cuddy

People want to feel understood by their leaders.

— Amy Cuddy

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

— Amy Cuddy

The mind shapes the body, and the body shapes the mind.

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“Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become”

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When we're sad, we slouch. We also slouch when we feel scared or powerless.

— Amy Cuddy

A lot of politicians, not surprisingly, hire consultants to help them with their nonverbals, presence, generally how they come across.

— Amy Cuddy

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

— Amy Cuddy

I want people to be able to influence themselves. We convince ourselves, and that allows us to convince others.

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People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational…

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You have to buy what you're selling. If you don't buy what you're selling, nobody will.

— Amy Cuddy

I would never encourage anyone to adopt a contractive posture. It's not good for you physically. It's not good for you psychologically.

— Amy Cuddy

When you have a novel, exciting finding, that gets attention. People are going to push back, and that's honestly how science should…

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Authenticity doesn't just mean you're not filtering what you're saying, it's about being able to know and access the best parts of…

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If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are…

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My primary goal is really to get people to open up and when they feel themselves contracting and collapsing to reduce that,…

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Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these…

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There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes…

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There is no one who is present all the time, but you work on becoming present when you are interacting with people…

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Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward,…

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Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've…

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That's the dream scenario: when people approach these stressful situations not focused on that concrete outcome but just focused on being there…

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“In a review of more than two hundred studies, researchers concluded that the more self-focused we are, the more anxious—and also the…

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Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70…

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The whole body-mind thing comes into play, when you are feeling that self-doubt and your body is not going to help you…

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I would say there is a conversation happening between your body and mind all the time. Even when you're sleeping, your body…

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I've been studying sexism for many years, and it's much easier to document the existence of sexism than it is to document…

— Amy Cuddy

A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects…

— Amy Cuddy

Power is generally defined as control over resources and control over access to resources, which often means control over other people because…

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“Susan Cain, Harvard Law School graduate and author of the culture-shifting bestseller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t…

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Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

— Amy Cuddy

Practice smiling by holding a pencil between your teeth for twenty minutes.

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Trust comes before strength, and it becomes a conduit of influence. Your strength is a little bit threatening before people trust you.

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It's not uncommon for people to overvalue the importance of demonstrating their competence and power, often at the expense of demonstrating their…

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When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding…

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I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners;…

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“A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift…

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Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas…

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Although our body language governs the way other people perceive us, our body language also governs how we perceive ourselves and how…

— Amy Cuddy