Just Because I’m Nice, Don’t Assume I’m Dumb My sense is that, if one seeks to step outside of such an infrastructure, it’s useful to know first of all that it exists. Perceptions of warmth and competence drive our stereotypes, biases, and prejudices (Cuddy et al., 2008)įrom my reading of the article, I have the sense that a social infrastructure of stereotyping exists, and each of us is in one way of another enmeshed within the confines of such an infrastructure. I’ve devoted a post to the research that I was most interested to read about this summer: (2008) concerned with research about stereotyping. In particular, I’ve made a close study, over the past summer, of an article by Cuddy et al. I mention these topics because some time back I began to read the work of Amy Cuddy. With the passage of the years, however, I was starting to slouch once again, as I had done in my teenage years – but since getting involved, over the past year, with serious strength training, and high-intensity interval training, my posture is now once again in pretty good shape.
#Amy cuddy presence series#
The work that I began those many years ago continues even now, long after I had retired from a leadership role, because from the start we made the concept of leadership succession and continuous improvement a key part of the process.Ī version of this collection of poses (that is, a series of drawings of the poses) appears in Cuddy’s book, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges (2015). Had I been slouching all the time, I would not have been able to achieve what I did – in a form of volunteer work, at the local, national, and international levels, that I like to call community self-organizing. Figuratively and literally, I stood straight and I stood tall. My posture made a huge difference in how I approached my role. My way of looking at the world also changed – as did the infrastructure of emotions that I brought to bear, in my day-to-day dealings, with the stuff of everyday life.įor several decades, in the years that followed, I was involved as a leader in volunteer work in which public speaking at large meetings, and media interviews, were a key part of my work. My posture and bearing – even how I walked and certainly how I sat – went through very considerable changes.
Source: Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges (2015) by Amy Cuddy (p.
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