A simple shift that will boost your confidence
First I’ll explain a little experiment that the Journal of Experimental Psychology recently published.
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- Researchers got 2 bunches of participants and they were going to do a job interview.
- They asked one group of participants to spend five minutes writing down about a time they were powerful, from the past.
- The other group had to write down a time where they were not powerful, where they lacked power so they wrote about that for five minutes.
- And the result of the interview: those who wrote about the time when they were powerful, increased their likelihood of being accepted by 81%, they performed 81% better than the ones who said they lacked power. They were more persuasive, they were more conversational, they just came across more persuasive in the interview.
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What this means for you
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- Next time you’re about to have a meeting or an interview or about to do something where perhaps you are nervous. Even for example public speaking, this is something I do as well. Think of a time when you were powerful when you won when you overcame a challenge and you just excelled.
- Spend 5 minutes writing it down and you will reprogram your body, your mind to think and feel power. See how it shows up for you.
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That’s a 5-minute confidence boost that will change the outcome of your meetings