On Monday 1st July 2024 PropelHer’s Book Club will be discussed Presence: Unlock your inner confidence to embrace life’s biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy. 

 

In this summary of Presence: Unlock your inner confidence to embrace life’s biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy. I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.

 

Presence consists of an Introduction and then 11 chapters. But before heading into the introduction Amy does share 10 principles for presence. 

 

In the introduction, Amy talks about the TED talk she delivered in 2012, what presence means to her and how the responses of people after the book have helped her in the writing of this book. 

 

Chapter 1 explores what presence is. Amy shares her definition of presence as well as discussing how presence relates to other topics such as introversion, self-esteem and self confidence. 

 

Then in Chapter 2 to 5 focus on the more internal side of presence. The book explores owning your own story, how being presence helps other to be present too and what to do if you feel powerlessness. Presence begins on the inside and these chapters will help you to do that internal work.

 

After addressing the internal aspects it is time to move onto the external, physical, aspects. Chapter 6 to 9 concentrates on the physical aspects. Body language, slouching, smiling and posing is discussed. This is where Amy discusses power poses, which is how many remember her from her 2012 TED talk. 

 

Then the final two chapters are on self-nudging and faking it till you become it. These chapters are designed to help the reader implement what has been explored and use the techniques to make their life better. 

 

That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Presence: Unlock your inner confidence to embrace life’s biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy.

 

Like the sound of Presence: Unlock your inner confidence to embrace life’s biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy.  Why not buy a copy of the book and have a read?

 

 

Buy Presence on Amazon

 

Presence: Unlock your inner confidence to embrace life’s biggest challenges by Amy Cuddy was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.

 

 

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