The Perfect Gentleman Issue 2 - April 2016 | Page 35

Thoughtful Gentleman
Therefore, if we can control and use our body
and the language it speaks, it will do us no end
of good generally in our lives, but specifically
with regards to confidence. If people perceive
us as confident then we will feel confident.
On top of that if we do certain things our
body chemistry will change as well and start
to fill us with confidence. You will be amazed.
So how can we work on these physical and
visual elements Here are our key elements for
working the outside in.

Power Poses
Professor Amy Cuddy, from Harvard
Business School, did a fascinating piece of
research about how our body affects our
mind and indeed our body chemistry. She
looked at a series of body postures that
confident, successful and powerful people do,
usually subconsciously, and performed an
experiment to prove that by doing a series of
what she calls ‘power postures’ for 2 minutes
it will drastically affect your confidence and
your body chemistry. Indeed, you don’t even
have believe in them for them to work.
The postures are in the photograph, but
Professor Cuddy suggests doing them for 2
minutes immediately before going into any
situation that you might need to feel more
confident such as meetings, dates or
interviews. Here full TED talk about her
research is here.

Professor Amy Cuddy

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