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3. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy explains how even faking
powerful body language can reduce stress and make you more confident.
Adopting a power pose is such a small thing but could make all the difference
when you’re in a high-stress situation.
Amy Cuddy:
Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are
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5. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Brené Brown:
The Power of Vulnerability
The ability to feel connected is what makes us feel alive.
Brené Brown teaches us that “shame” is the fear of
disconnection, which results in our vulnerability.
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7. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Scott Dinsmore:
How to Find & Do the Work You Love
Why are you doing the work that you’re doing? Are you just figuring out what you
want to do with your life? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? Scott
Dinsmore did and it forced him to quit a job that made him miserable, and spend
the next four years searching for work based on passion and purpose. He shares
what he learned in the process.
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9. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Matt Cutts:
Try Something New Every 30 Days
Have you ever felt that you were growing stale and maybe even experiencing burn
out. That happened to Matt Cutts. As a remedy, he decided to follow in the the
suggestion of the American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something
new for 30 days. Like Spurlock, Cutts got more than he bargained for.
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11. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Simon Sinek:
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
In this Talk, Sinek argues that people don’t buy what you do, they buy why you
do it. He argues this through powerful examples of how successful leaders
inspire their employees to work purposefully. His most valuable piece of advice:
If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money.
But if you hire people who believe in your work, they’ll work for you with blood,
sweat & tears.
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13. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Steve Jobs
How to Live Before You Die
Steve Job’s Stanford University 2005 commencement speech addressed his
background, his adoption, and the events that led him to found Apple. Jobs urged
leaders to have faith in their path, to take a leap of faith, and act individually.
Epitomized risk-taking; he stated:“Death is very likely the single best invention of
life. It is life’s change agent.”
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15. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Ruth Chang
How to Make Hard Decision
No one can go through life without making difficult decisions.
Philosopher Ruth Chang helps us make life-changing, difficult
decisions by looking within yourself—it’s an opportunity to
decide who you want to be.
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17. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Dan Pink
The Puzzle of Motivation
Most of our motivation gets stuck at the workplace. Dan Pink tries to look
into the correlation of work, extrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and
performance. He debunks the equation between higher rewards and
better performance. The solution is to do things that matter.
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19. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Seth Godin
How to Get your Ideas to Spread
When we have too many options and too little time, our obvious choice is
to just ignore the mundane. Marketing guru Seth Godin spells out why,
when it comes to being successful, bad or bizarre ideas are more
successful than boring ones.
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21. Change your posture, change your life. Amy Cuddy
explains how even faking powerful body language can reduce
stress and make you more confident. Adopting a power pose
is such a small thing but could make all the difference when
you’re in a high-stress situation.
Pamela Meyer
How to Spot a Liar
Honesty is a value worth preserving and recognizing. Pamela Meyer
reveals tips and tricks on how to spot someone who isn’t telling the
whole truth.10