I haven't mentioned this in class, but perhaps you have noticed there is a Course Link on the right call Amy Cuddy Power Posing on TED. I very much urge you to watch this. The actual name of the talk is "Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are" and it has become the second most popular TED talk of all time.
Amy Cuddy is the main Harvard researcher behind the study of how a couple minutes of power posing can increase our testosterone and lower our cortisol levels. She has also more recently focused on how we sleep at night can influence our power and influence during the day. For example, those who sleep on their back and all opened up tend to be more powerful during the day than those who sleep all curled up.
But this particular TED talk is about daytime power posing, and it is really, really interesting. Please watch it, and all the way to the end because she gives her own story about how a bad car accident damaged her brain when she was in college and seriously lowered her IQ. She was withdrawn from college and told she had no hope of returning. But over time and through a great deal of work and learning how to "Fake it until you make it" she was able to regain her intelligence and now she is a Harvard professor.
It is really a fascinating story and a very well delivered TED talk and a great inspiration to all of us about what is possible in our lives.
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