Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316256575)

MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD: Learn the simple techniques you'll need to approach your biggest challenges with confidence.

Have you ever left a nerve-racking challenge and immediately wished for a do over? Maybe after a job interview, a performance, or a difficult conversation? The very moments that require us to be genuine and commanding can instead cause us to feel phony and powerless. Too often we approach our lives' biggest hurdles with dread, execute them with anxiety, and leave them with regret.

By accessing our personal power, we can achieve "presence," the state in which we stop worrying about the impression we're making on others and instead adjust the impression we've been making on ourselves. As Harvard professor Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals, we don't need to embark on a grand spiritual quest or complete an inner transformation to harness the power of presence. Instead, we need to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and mind-set in our day-to-day lives.

Amy Cuddy has galvanized tens of millions of viewers around the world with her TED talk about "power poses." Now she presents the enthralling science underlying these and many other fascinating body-mind effects, and teaches us how to use simple techniques to liberate ourselves from fear in high-pressure moments, perform at our best, and connect with and empower others to do the same.

Brilliantly researched, impassioned, and accessible, Presence is filled with stories of individuals who learned how to flourish during the stressful moments that once terrified them. Every reader will learn how to approach their biggest challenges with confidence instead of dread, and to leave them with satisfaction instead of regret.

"Presence feels at once concrete and inspiring, simple but ambitious -- above all, truly powerful." --New York Times Book Review

Author: Amy Cuddy
ISBN-10: 0316256579
ISBN-13: 9780316256575
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2015
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.20d
Award: Books for a Better Life - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 01/03/2016 pg. 1
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Library Journal 01/01/2016 pg. 121
Publishers Weekly 12/21/2015
People 04/04/2016 pg. 42
Entertainment Weekly 01/08/2016 pg. 2