2019年英语专业八级真题听力 Mini -lecture (3) Here ' s what we find on dominance hormone . From their baseline when they come in , high-power people experience about a 20-percent increase , and low-power people experience about a 10-percent decrease .
So again , two minutes , and you get these changes . Concerning stress hormone , high-power people experience about a 25-percent decrease , and the low-power people experience about a 15-percent increase .
Once again , two minutes lead to these hormonal changes that configure your brain to basically be either assertive , confident or really stress-reactive , and , you know , feeling sort of shut down . And we ' ve all had that feeling , right ?
So it seems that our nonverbals do govern how we think and feel about ourselves . Also , our bodies change our minds .
So , power posing for a few minutes really changes your life in meaningful ways . When I tell people about this , that our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior ,
and our behavior can change our outcomes , they say to me , I don ' t believe that . It feels fake . Right ? So I said , fake it till you make it .
I ' m going to live you with this . Before you go into the next stressful evaluative situation , for example , a job interview , for two minutes , try doing this ,
in the elevator , or at your desk behind closed doors and say to youself That ' s what I want to do . Configure your brain to do the best in that situation .
Get your dominance hormone up , and get your stress hormone down . Don ' t leave that situation feeling like , oh , I didn ' t show them who I am .
Leave that situation feeling like , oh , I really managed to say who I am and show who I am . To sum up , today , we talk about the nonverbal expressions of power and dominance and the strong effects of the change of behavior .
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