Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges

Written by Amy Cuddy

Narrated by Amy Cuddy

How can we be our strongest selves in life's most challenging situations? We often approach these situations - job interviews, difficult conversations, speaking up for ourselves - with anxiety and leave them with regret. Moments that require us to be genuine and powerful instead cause us to feel phoney and powerless, preventing us from being our best selves.

Harvard professor Amy Cuddy shows us we need to stop worrying about the impression we're making on others, and instead change the impression we're making on ourselves. Cutting-edge science reveals that if we adopt behaviours reflecting power and strength, we liberate ourselves from the fears and doubts that obstruct us. By redirecting our thoughts, actions, and even physiology, we free ourselves to be our best.

Amy Cuddy galvanised viewers around the world with her TED talk on 'power poses'. Now she explains the science underlying these and many other fascinating body-mind effects, and teaches us how to use this science to become self-assured in high-pressure moments.

Impassioned, beautifully researched, and accessible, PRESENCE is filled with stories of individuals facing real obstacles, and succeeding against the odds. Every reader will learn how to approach stress-filled challenges without fear and leave them without regret.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hachette UK Audio
• Release date: Dec 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781409163053

Amy Cuddy

Amy Cuddy is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED's history. She is a professor and researcher at Harvard Business School who studies how nonverbal behavior and snap judgments influence people. Her research has been published in top academic journals and covered by NPR, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Wired, Fast Company, and more. Cuddy has been named a Game Changer by Time, a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science, one of 50 Women Who Are Changing the World by Business Insider, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts

Reviews for Presence

[fouad_bendris · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

"Presence" is dedicated for everyone struggling with mindful behaviors and wondering how to switch from there ! This book will provide you with nice hints and clues - no doubt - A really Must Read as this helps ... Good insight for self promotion and self esteem - Definitively a game-changer !Feb, 14th - 2016

[suedarc · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Best review of all....took it out of the library and realized that this is one to own. Bought my own copy right away.

[reganrule · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Received this for Xmas from a sweet, well-meaning mama of a dear friend. But I just cannot. I hate TEDTalks and I hate self-help books, and I find myself hating the people who give or write them. 300 pages to tell me to assume a "powerful" posture before anxiety-producing situations, and that self-confidence will eventually follow? NOTHANKYOU. It took me less than 100 words to convey the gist.

[Sam Kawumi Luwe · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I can't recommend this book enough! Though I didn't appreciate all the time spent traversing through all the research she took I must nevertheless admit that Amy Cuddy's revolutionary book reveals we may not necessarily have to embark on a grand spiritual quest to harness the power of presence. Instead, we need only learn how to nudge ourselves, moment by moment, by tweaking our body language, behavior, and mind-set in our day-to-day lives. All written in clear language and I would -certainly recommend it!

[jpsnow · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Presence is valuable for the practical advice it offers that anyone can use to maximize their effectiveness. The core idea is that we are most present and thus able to perform when we are grounded in our own authentic selves. Once in that mode, anyone activate it by taking a power stance, or a power pace or power mindset. I liked how the practical advice was backed by real examples and just enough research to make the reader believe without making them bored. In the course of reading, I recognized many anecdotes and techniques I've heard from others, which indicates this book's advice sticks.