Summary Of Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are '

In Amy Cuddy’s “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are”, she discusses the way our body language describe the type of person we are, and other ways our non verbal communication speaks for us. In this speech, Cuddy uses both causes and effects to convey her argument. However, I believe she uses more effects than causes to convey her message. Cuddy’s purpose of this speech is to bring awareness to people that their body language tells other a lot, and that they should be cautious of it. This is one of the reasons she uses more effects in the speech to convey the message. Though, she does go through some causes such as, the discussion about the effects of testosterone and cortisol levels. In this scenario she says, “Powerful leaders have high
Using the previous example, she says that when people perform these “high-level poses”, before interviews then they are more likely to be hired. By using this data from research collected, the audience is more likely to believe what is being presented. People cannot refute real data, and therefore this type of evidence can be seen as concrete. Near the end of the speech she also gives another effect, by describing a personal time when she “faked it ‘til [she] became it”. In this scene, she describes a time in her life when someone told her to fake it when she felt like she didn’t belong in school. After that she was able to climb her way into Princeton, Harvard, and other prestigious schools. Cuddy is trying to she faked it until she convinced herself that she did belong, and in effect she was able to make it to great schools. This type of effect is more personal and people are able to relate to it on an emotional level. By adding this scenario to her speech, she was able to refute her argument with hard evidence, but also to convince people by exploiting their emotions. I would say that both uses of effects helped Cuddy to portray her