Amy Cuddy

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

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

A mountain of evidence shows that our bodies are pushing, shaping, even leading our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. That the body affects the mind is, it's fair to say, incontestable. And it's doing so in ways that either facilitate or impede our ability to bring our authentic best selves to our biggest challenges. ”

I'm good enough; I'm smart enough. Self-affirmation is where people list their core values. These are things that really make them who they are. ”

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

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

Entrepreneurs are more likely to be successful if they're able to be present while pitching their ideas. It's about maintaining presence during big challenges - very high stakes moments with some component of social judgment. Everyone has them, whether they're entrepreneurs or not. ”

Ironically, while many of us spend hours every day using small mobile devices to increase our productivity and efficiency, interacting with these objects, even for short periods of time, might do just the opposite, reducing our assertiveness and undermining our productivity. ”

Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've also heard people call it 'text neck,' and in my work, I sometimes refer to it as 'iPosture.' ”

I sometimes work with a communications and media training firm called KNP Communications. It's nice to bring the research to the practitioners; I learn a lot watching how they put it into practice, and I know they like to be on top of what's happening on the research front. ”