860: The Science of Compelling Body Language with Richard Newman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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How to Lift Your Body Language
Richard Newman is one of the top five psychologists in the world. He has authored or co-authored roughly a thousand research projects over the last 30 to 40 years and he gets to go and speak at Duquenotes all over the world. We wanted to do our own version of this test around gestures to see, well, how does an audience react to your gestures? So importantly, if you do no gestures, you get terrible ratings. If you're keeping your hands held in one position or having them down by your side, very low-limp gestures are effectively bad body language. And gesturing below the waist can make people feel self-conscious so that's something we'd like
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