How acting on two-minute ideas can boost your confidence

When I was speaking with Caito about confidence-building, she talked about coming across the TED Talk that I want to share with you. It is about how our body language both affects how others see us, and more importantly for our self-development, how it also can change the way we see ourselves.

Let me introduce you to Amy Cuddy.

Are you ready to easily super charge your confidence?

Amy Cuddy is a social psychologist and Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. Cuddy asks everyone to freely share her scientific findings and the ideas to put into action. She wants to significantly change people's lives. Her TED Talk has over seventeen million views. Her research shows that regardless of our personality we can control those feelings of anxiousness or nervousness in those situations when we need more sense of power or well-being.

Cuddy and coauthors Dana R. Carney and Andy J. Yap of Columbia University have an article in Psychological...