Your body language shapes who you are! Fake it till you make it!

1. “Your Body
Language
shapes who
you are”

2. Dr. Singh Addressing
the Nation

3. Narendra Modi’s
Address

4. Does that make any
Difference?
Lets see!

6. It is only our sheer
judgement based on the
energy, expression and
body language that makes
us believe that Mr Modi is
the right person, the
“achiever”

7. “WE ALL DEAL
WITH BEING
UNFAIRLY JUDGED
BASED ON OUR
ACTIONS.”
-VIN DIESEL

8. Even the Animal kingdom follows the
same.

9. What do you observe?

10. In the animal kingdom, they
expand to display power,
authority and confidence.

11. So do Humans!!

12. Research has
shown that even a
blind person on
winning does this
position, even
though he/she has
never seen anyone
do the same.

13. Even standing like a superman can make you feel
more powerful.
Why is that a pose/position affecting our mind??

14. More than others, postures affect
ourselves.
Not only does mind drive body,
but
“Bodies drive mind, mind changes
behaviour and behaviour changes
outcomes.”

17. Two Key Hormones in humans
TESTOSTERONE
● Dominance hormone
CORTISOL
● Stress hormone
High power alpha males in primate hierarchies
and Powerful and effective leaders have HIGH
testosterone and LOW cortisol.

18. If an individual needs to take an alpha role
suddenly, within few days his TESTOSTERONE
has gone up and his CORTISOL has dropped
significantly!!
So, there’s is a real possibility of positions and
roles shaping the mind and thus outcomes!!!

19. To further solidify the belief, the following research was
done and the outcomes of it were extraordinary.
People were divided in two groups and were interviewed!
● High stress interview
● No non-verbal evaluation
● Both interviewers and interviewee were blind to the
hypothesis and conditions.
● It was like “Standing in social Quicksand”

20. To be more precise, the interview
condition was like this!

21. Before the interview, people from two groups
had different positions.
Group 1(High Power) Group 2(Low Power)

22. The following changes in Testosterone and Cortisol were
observed.
The interview, even without interviewing when shown the
videos of groups before the interview said that “we want
to hire the high power people. They bring more energy to
the company!”

24. Even if you feel ,”you
don’t belong here,
you are posing, its
fake, its fraud!!”
then what???

26. Amy Cuddy had a story to tell of herself:-
She met with an accident at 19, withdrew from college, I.Q
dropped by two standard deviation.( I.Q was her thing). Felt
depressed and lost.
She took 4 years longer than her peers to complete college.
She always felt she did not belong.
What she did??
She faked and faked and went through Princeton, Harvard
and became a professor. She faked till she became it and no
longer felt the same.

29. Find Time!!
2 minutes in the
elevator, bus or
anywhere to get
your power pose
and feel more
powerful,
confident and
change your lives.

31. Created by Sameer Agarwal,
NIT Jalandhar, during an
internship by Prof. Sameer
Mathur, IIM Lucknow.
www.iiminternship.com