Jim Kwik shares two quick confidence tricks: striking a power pose like Wonder Woman to lower stress hormones, based on Amy Cuddy's research, and high-fiving yourself in the mirror, a technique from Mel Robbins' work on self-celebration.
Here are 10 quick tips to have greater confidence. So the first one is the power pose. And there was a study done by Amy Cuddy, Harvard psychologist, that said that using your physiology actually affects your psychology. If you have a power pose and you did something like the Wonder Woman pose or the Superman pose, when you do it, it helps reduce cortisol levels in your body, which is the stress hormone. Number 2, if you want an instant boost of courage, find yourself a mirror, give yourself a high five. And I'm taking this from a podcast interview we did with my friend Mel Robbins. High-fiving yourself, according to her research, this is ingrained since you were a child. You're high-fiving people throughout your whole life, and that's to celebrate, to encourage, saying you are enough, you're gonna win today.
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