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Natalie Portman: Accept your Lack of Knowledge, and Use it as Your Asset
Natalie Portman, 33, who attended Harvard College from 1999 to 2003 and earned an A.B. in psychology, reflected on her own experiences at the University and in her career as she battled self-doubt. Even 12 years after graduation, with an enviable body of work and a rich personal life, she confessed to still feeling pangs…
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Body Language Affects How Others See us and How we See Ourselves
Social psychologist Amy Cuddy's research on body language reveals that we can change other people’s perceptions — and even our own body chemistry — simply by changing body positions. When we become aware of our body posture, we may find that we're hunching over, or maybe we spread out. We notice those things in others.…
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How Confidence Builds Credibility, and Lack of Action Erodes Trust
It is no secret that people are getting increasingly skeptical around marketing messages, that they report hating the interruptive nature of advertising, and the sneaky ways companies manage to get around the boundaries they set. We have been reading the headlines in articles and posts for years. If you start counting from the first publication…
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Making Things Operational
Two parts to making things happen: (1.) see things to comprehend, and to be able to leverage the value of our personal insight (2.) develop a keen sense of how to articulate what you want to say to connect with others You do that with a certain degree of commitment and persistence and begin to…