![]() ![]() "When you walk into a party, Cosmo girls walk in with their chin up, smile on her face, eyes friendly and scanning the room." So yes, do you need to read this book when all you need to do is pull back issues of Cosmo? Am I the only person who read Cosmo magazine in the 90s? I distinctly remember reading Cosmo magazine in my 20s with this exact advice. This book is an unnecessarily long article about acting self-confident when you don't feel it. But for a while there, I didn't eat any Ding Dongs, nor lie on the carpet and die, and I completely lost the cap to my highlighter, and I thought, hey, a lot of this is not stupid, and maybe some of it could work, even for me. I mention it to warn you that the book is not a saccharine-free zone.)Īmy Cuddy's advice may or may not be scientifically sound, and the many studies presented here may or may not make you think you could be something else hereafter, something larger, more beautiful, more powerful. "Starfish up." (Not, not, NOT highlighted in my copy. This is power, it is glory on earth, and it is yours for the taking." -Agnes de Mille (Ditto.) "Begin to be now what you will be hereafter." -William James. Why are you highlighting that book." And then he started to laugh because he knew it was because I'm the nerd of all nerd-dom, and I said, That's right, I miss doing homework and highlighting things and (I didn't say this part) believing that I could improve myself. I was in deep danger of switching from the Bold Self initiative to my default setting, which is Holden Caulfield at the end of his madman weekend in New York.Īnd yet I kept reading, and it got to a point where I was curled up on the sofa with a highlighter in my hand, and my 17-year-old came home from school and said, "Why are you doing that. In the beginning it really did tick me off to hear how fabulous everyone thought the theory of "presence" was, how many lives it had changed, and how many of the people whose Lives It Had Changed had come up to the author at coffee shops and told her so. So I thought maybe as an alternative I would open the book and see if it could help me with my Biggest Challenge, which is ongoing and dire and I can't even tell you what it is because maybe you know me. Normally in that situation we just bring a flask.īut I was in that sort of a funk where you think, I am going to eat 12 Ding Dongs and lie face down on the living room carpet and then in 40 or so years I'm going to die. You have to be far more optimistic than we are to believe you could possibly learn anything from a book that says it can tell you how to bring your boldest self to your biggest challenges. My inner voice screams, "I KNOOOOOOOOW." But someone sent this book to my husband to review, or maybe just as advice, because he doesn't read self-help books either. Metaphorically I'm a 17-year-old hearing that it would be better to start my homework on Saturday instead of Sunday night at eight. " Presence feels at once concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious - above all, truly powerful." - New York Times Book Review ![]() Every reader will learn how to approach their biggest challenges with confidence instead of dread, and to leave them with satisfaction instead of regret. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and mind-set in our day-to-day lives.Īmy Cuddy has galvanized tens of millions of viewers around the world with her TED talk about "power poses." Now she presents the enthralling science underlying these and many other fascinating body-mind effects, and teaches us how to use simple techniques to liberate ourselves from fear in high-pressure moments, perform at our best, and connect with and empower others to do the same.īrilliantly researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them. As Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals, we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret.īy accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES Learn the simple techniques you'll need to approach your biggest challenges with confidence. ![]()
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