Power Posing & Postural Feedback
Expansive posture reliably makes people feel more powerful; claims that it changes hormones or risk-taking failed replication. Posture is a mood tool, not a chemistry tool, for you and whoever arranges your seat.
An everyday example
Standing tall before a pitch and feeling more confident; a counterpart seated low behind a high desk and feeling less so.
What it can cost you
Over-trusting the felt confidence, or being physically arranged into submission and reading it as your own hesitancy.
Warning signs
- My confidence came from standing, not from evidence.
- The seating made me feel like the junior party.
One thing to do
Use posture to manage your own state, then decide on the facts; and notice when the room has been set to shrink you.
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