Amy Cuddy

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The School of Greatness · Your Body Language Is Telling You You're Not Safe | Amy Cuddy · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

In fact, then you're just lying to yourself, and now you trust yourself even less.

So saying I'm great when you feel self-doubting, in a way, is the worst thing you can do.

Well, here's one of my favorite tasks.

So actual, like...

The theory of self-affirmation in psychology is not about saying, I'm great, or I'm gonna win this event, whatever, if you don't give it away.

I'm the best,

It is about affirming to yourself

what your values are, who you really are, like what makes you you.

So the task is so simple and there's so much research on this that doing this simple task helps people perform better in totally unrelated tasks.

So the task is to first list maybe the top three things that you care most about that really, if I took them away, you would just no longer be yourself,

I have a kind of pathological optimism.

I am upset when somebody does something that hurts someone else in a way that some people might think is naive, but I'm glad I feel that way.

I am so...

hurt that people behave badly.

I'm troubled by it.

And I'm glad that I'm troubled by it because I'm going to keep on trying to change that.

I think it's a kind of earnestness that people find it irritating, but I'm totally okay with earnestness.

And actually, this is one of the things that Amy Purdy and I have in common.

She's like this too.

She's just sad when people are

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