CHAPTER TWO
Taking Charge of Your Nonverbal Communication
Projecting Your Desired Persona—through Your Emotions
In this chapter, I will talk about how to gain mastery over your body language—your gestural vocabulary—by controlling your emotions. And I will discuss why that self-mastery is so important: because of mirror neurons. We all have mirror neurons in our brains that reflect the emotions of those around us. Emotions are contagious, and that has important implications for leaders.
The Difficulty of Paying Attention to Everything
So you’ve successfully taken a personal inventory of your own characteristic body language and developed a sense of how you look to others. That means that you’ve completed power cue number one and you’re ready ...
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