![]() ![]() However, to describe this fleeting sense of command, the author has to break it down into its components, severing the threads that hold the feeling together. Cuddy-whose 2012 TED talk about the significance of body language has been viewed more than 27 million times (second among the most-viewed TED talks)-seeks presence in the face of powerlessness before pressure, anxiety, confusion, and frustration. It’s all about poise, emerging from a trust and belief in yourself, your values, and your feelings. “Presence, as I mean it throughout these pages,” writes social psychologist Cuddy (Business Administration/Harvard Business School), “is the state of feeling connected with our own thoughts, values, abilities, and emotions, so that we can better connect with the thoughts, values, abilities, and emotions of others. That’s it.” That may be it, but it’s a tall order, since presence is an exquisite synchrony of the senses and the various elements of the self in harmony, as difficult to put into words as rapture or the flow state. An examination of the psychological and physiological mechanics that spark the precious, transitory sense of presence. ![]()
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