Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are Analysis

In her Ted Talk, “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are,” Dr. Amy Cuddy argues that how a person holds their body shapes how they act in situations. She starts off her speech offering everybody in the crowd a free no-tech life hack. She continues to talk about different ways of how people may be sitting, and the crowd reacts by changing their posture. Cuddy then continues on to describe to the crowd how the human race is fascinated with body language. She then puts up a few pictures on the board to describe how we are fascinated. The crowd proceeded to laugh because the body language in the pictures and videos that she showed proved to be funny. She had proved her point because everybody in the crowd showed interest by laughing.
Later, Cuddy carries on by describing situations of how
Taking all of her studies and experience into account, I believe that we can. Although faking it until we make it isn’t what Cuddy really wants. She wants people to fake it until they become it. Her body language was strong through most of the speech, she cowered through certain areas but I don’t feel as though it took away what she was trying to get across to the audience. She had shown, in many different ways, how people have overcome the obstacles in front of them. She even included a personal story. She had been in a car accident when she was 19, had a serious head injury, and had a hard time with school after that. She had been told that college may not be for her anymore, but she persisted and earned a college degree. It may have taken her longer than her peers, but she did it. She had graduated college, but it wasn’t until her first year at Harvard that it really hit her. She had a student come into her office saying that she shouldn’t be there. Cuddy saw a lot of herself in this young lady, and it was then that Cuddy realized that she, herself, had made it. She had not only faked it until she made it, but she had faked it until she became