Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy | TED
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN brings it up in threads about impostor syndrome, confidence, and body language as an interesting talk on faking it until you feel it.
What it is
Amy Cuddy's TED talk arguing that adopting expansive postures, or power posing, can boost feelings of confidence and affect success. A note on the video points to the later reproducibility debate over its findings.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2013 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Recommends ndonnellan · 2013-02 · on “Stanford Female CS Student: I Fight Impostor Syndrome”
I am reminded of this interesting talk by Amy Cuddy on body language: [this video] Most of it is not directly related (still worth watching!), but at about 15:42 in she gives her personal anecdote of impostor syndrome and "faking it til you make it". Which, incidentally, I think applies well to entrepreneurs.
Recommends chiefalchemist · 2021-03 · on “Talking with your hands alters the perception of your words”
It might be. I bumped into this last week and I found it fascinating. Long to short, your body language not only affects how others perceive you, it affects how you perceive you. [this video] That aside, I'm reading Adam Grants "Think Again." He mentioned at least one study where appearing infallible can be a bad thing. That you can become less believable, less likeable and so on. There's more to influencing others than coming across as Mr / Ms Know-it-all. Showing too much confidence can work against you.
Cites zxcvvcxz · 2013-09 · on “How to fake courage”
"Fake it till you become it." This is the path I've been on for the last 5 years, and only now am I finally starting to feel a little "natural" in some core social competencies. But man is it exhausting! All the micromangaging, analyzing, calibrating, and mental preparation. I often require more sleep as a result, guess the brain needs that to adapt. Related vid: [this video]