Long TED Talk: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Summary:
Amy Cuddy is a  social psychologist who research on the impact of body language toward changing other people’s perceptions.In the speech, she shared that posing for two minutes in a powerful position, with the body expansive and the limbs stretched out, can have a profound effect on how a person feels. She proved her saying by giving out scientific experiments and statistics. She emphasized on reminding people to correct the misconception that when people think of nonverbals, they think of how they judge others. They should think it in another way, what is influenced by our nonverbals is ourselves.In the end of her talk, she encouraged the audience "fake it till you become it " with her own touching life experience.

What can listeners learn from this talk?
Some people might regard this talk as brainwashing, because the speaker suggest people to fake themselves with the body language, but not who they really are. But I think this is not the point Amy tried to imply, what she truly want to say is that people should configure their brain to cope the best in the situation. People often confront with the situation of regretting  didn't show the best of themselves. Listeners who often have this kind of feeling can get benefit from the talk, because what Amy shared can help people to leave the situation feeling like, oh, I really feel like I got to say who I am and show who I am.