1 I’ll
take the physical challenge!
The Talks
Amy Cuddy:
Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are: Nonverbal is language. People make
sweeping judgments about our body language. Even in this day and age emoticons
impact conversations. What we don’t realize is our own nonverbal impact us.
Nonverbal expressions can be expressions of power. When we’re powerful we are
open. Power is about how we react to stress. The body can shape the mind.
There’s a big difference between high power and low power. It only takes two
minutes in a power pose to change how you react.
Jane McGonigal: the
game that can give you 10 extra years of your life: Jane is a game designer, her goal is to
save the world in real life the same way it is to do so in a video game. She
argues that people don’t game enough. In fact she thinks gaming is essential to
survival. Sounds great but some notes of this talk she gets a little pissed but
mainly because she’s sick of people telling her that she’ll she wish she played
less games on her death bed. But she point out that that’s never one of the
regrets that people share. She found herself in a situation where she had to
rest her brain, and essentially had no reason to live.
The Challenge:
Sounds pretty simple, the idea is to achieve what Jane calls
‘epic wins’ she discovered that she’d like create post traumatic growth without
the trauma. The first part is simple, because Jane actually developed an app
that that provides you with little tasks to increase your physical and mental
resilience.
Likewise Amy Cuddy’s challenge is also fairly simple, I mean
its laid out simply I don’t mean to say it will be easy because who knows this
might be the challenge that cripples me.
Simple as both these sound its perfect because our confidence and
resistance and other good shit compounds when we’re constantly tackling small
tasks will potentially make me awesome.
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