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What I most want you to understand is that your body is continuously and convincingly sending messages to your brain, and you get to control the content of those messages. Amy Cuddy

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Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness. Amy Cuddy

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. Amy Cuddy

People want to feel understood by their leaders. Amy Cuddy

People Leaders Feel Understood Want

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. Amy Cuddy

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If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being who you are? Amy Cuddy

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People have a lot of control over their ability to rise to the occasion and to show their best or their aspirational selves. Amy Cuddy

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There are plenty of reasons to put our cellphones down now and then, not least the fact that incessantly checking them takes us out of the present moment and disrupts family dinners around the globe. Amy Cuddy

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When we're sad, we slouch. We also slouch when we feel scared or powerless. Amy Cuddy

Sad Scared Feel Powerless Also

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments. Amy Cuddy

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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. Amy Cuddy

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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is. Angela Duckworth

Good Matter Aptitude Something Nobody Without Effort Gets Your

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores. Angela Duckworth

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I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself. Angela Duckworth

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Everybody knows that effort matters. What was revelatory to me was how much it mattered. Angela Duckworth

Me Matters Everybody Knows How How Much Mattered Effort Much

There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from? Angela Duckworth

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I was a good novice teacher, but I did the things that were obvious. I stayed for lunch for extra tutoring, gave kids my cell phone, and was available. In my first year of teaching, I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don't think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual. Angela Duckworth

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The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold. Angela Duckworth

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Why do some people try, try again, and why do some people not? That's what I'm after. Angela Duckworth

People Try Some People Some After Again Why

Grit and self-control are related, but they're not the same thing. Angela Duckworth

Same Thing Related Self-Control Same Grit Thing

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season. Angela Duckworth

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Most people who are really, enduringly interested in something eventually find that it's important, too - and important to other people. Very few people can keep going their whole life doing something and feel like it's merely personally fascinating. Angela Duckworth

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I know a lot of CEOs who are looking for three- to four-year varsity athletes - not necessarily because these people are going to be doing pushups or spiking volleyballs in the workplace, but because they're looking for that continuity, that person who was gritty about something. Angela Duckworth

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Substituting nuance for novelty is what experts do, and that is why they are never bored. Angela Duckworth

Bored Never Experts Novelty Why Nuance

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