Amy Cuddy
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1,290 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 28 Aug
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Yes.
Totally, but she does stuff.
just sitting there being sad.
Anyway, I would say that that is one of the things that makes me who I am.
And if somebody said, you're naive and you really can't move forward in life if you hold onto this belief that people can be good, I'd be like, well, then I'm no longer who I am, right?
So the task of self-affirmation is you list like three of these things.
And then you rank them.
And you may be only ranking them based on how you feel today.
But then you take the top one, you write a paragraph about why it matters to you, and then you write another paragraph about a time when you were able to express that.
value that that belief and what it felt like to do that that's that's it that's self-affirmation and so you know some people might say you know being you know being creative like art is important to me or you know helping people in my community whatever it is
When people do that, they then are less anxious in stressful situations and they perform better.
So, for example, college students who do self-affirmation at the beginning of the semester perform better on their midterm exams and have lower levels of
than students who don't do that task.
Wow.
Self-affirmation is basically you shoring yourself up.
And what happens is that when you go in to take like say this calculus exam,
You know that no matter what happens during that exam, you will still be you when you leave.
How you do in that calculus exam is not going to change who you are.
I'm still going to be this person who wants people to be nice to each other.
Exactly.
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