1.View Amy Cuddy’s “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” TED talk and then answer the questions listed below: Explain the difference between high power and low power poses. What happens to our body (testosterone and cortisol levels) after performing high power poses? How might you use her ideas in our class to improve your performance in a speech or in a group? Toward the end of her talk, she says “Don’t just fake it till you make it, fake it till you become it.” What does she mean? https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are 2. Making sense of Extraversion/Introversion preference on Myers Briggs Personality Assessment. View Susan Cain’s “Power of Introverts” TED talk and then answer the questions listed below. After taking the personality assessment, what is your preference–extraversion or introversion? What percent did you score for this preference? Whether you are introvert or extravert, what do you bring to a group? Discuss leadership of a group and the extravert and introvert personality preferences. At the end of her speech, Cain presents three calls of action. The first is “Stop the madness for constant groupwork.” Does this mean that group collaboration is unproductive? Explain. What did you learn from her speech? What idea from her speech might you challenge? https://www.ted.com/talks/susan_cain_the_power_of_introverts Separate each topic into two different pages.
