How can we be our strongest selves in life's most challenging situations? We often approach
these situations - job interviews difficult conversations speaking up for ourselves - with
anxiety and leave them with regret. Moments that require us to be genuine and powerful instead
cause us to feel phoney and powerless preventing us from being our best selves. Harvard
professor Amy Cuddy shows us we need to stop worrying about the impression we're making on
others and instead change the impression we're making on ourselves. Cutting-edge science
reveals that if we adopt behaviours reflecting power and strength we liberate ourselves from
the fears and doubts that obstruct us. By redirecting our thoughts actions and even
physiology we free ourselves to be our best. Amy Cuddy galvanised viewers around the world
with her TED talk on 'power poses'. Now she explains the science underlying these and many
other fascinating body-mind effects and teaches us how to use this science to become
self-assured in high-pressure moments. Impassioned beautifully researched and accessible
PRESENCE is filled with stories of individuals facing real obstacles and succeeding against
the odds. Every reader will learn how to approach stress-filled challenges without fear and
leave them without regret.
