Coaching practices for Power Posing Revisited After a Setback
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- I keep waiting to feel confident before I’ll raise my hand or go for the thing, and the confidence never just shows up
- I hit one failure and the whole goal suddenly feels impossibly far away
- Right before something nerve-wracking I want a quick body-based way to feel a notch more sure of myself
- When a setback hits I’m always blindsided, like I’d quietly assumed everything would just keep going fine
- I was certain a thing like this would completely break me, and somehow I’m still standing
Practices that may help
- Power Posing Revisited
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested. - Understand the "become it" claim accurately
Sustained behavioral practice of confidence — acting as if — can build real self-efficacy over time, through mastery experiences rather than pose duration.
Power Posing Revisited - Invoke the possible self during setbacks
When you fail or stall, return to the hoped-for self — not to the outcome goal — as your re-orienting anchor.
Possible Selves, Made Practical - Adopt expansive posture to shift subjective confidence
Upright, open posture — not a "power pose" — reliably correlates with higher self-reported confidence, even if the hormone claims did not hold.
Power Posing Revisited - Negative visualization (premeditatio malorum)
Briefly imagine losing what you have, so you stop taking it for granted and brace for setbacks.
Stoicism, as a Set of Practices - Domain 3 — Personal strength
Surviving what you thought you couldn’t can leave a durable sense of "I am stronger than I knew."
Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical - Hold steady when the system pushes back
Expect displacement, scapegoating, and pressure to return to the old equilibrium — and stay the course.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
Mastery Experiences - Use positive emotions to restore self-control capacity
Induce positive affect after a demanding self-control period to accelerate recovery.
Self-Regulation Failure and Ego Depletion - Skip the hormonal "power pose" promises
Use posture for felt confidence, but don’t believe it’s changing your hormones.
Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
Related concerns
- Power Posing Revisited During A Big Change
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Cuddy Power Pose Study
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Does Power Posing Work
Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
- Ifs Self Energy After A Setback
When you fail or stall, return to the hoped-for self — not to the outcome goal — as your re-orienting anchor.
Invoke the possible self during setbacks
- Posture Confidence Effect
Adopting an upright, open posture is associated with modest improvements in mood, self-perception, and felt confidence — but the dramatic "power posing changes your hormones and risk-taking" claims largely failed to replicate, so be skeptical of those. Think of posture as a small, real nudge on how you feel, not a hormonal hack; this is general wellbeing information, not medical advice.
- Power Pose Hormones
Use posture for felt confidence, but don’t believe it’s changing your hormones.
Skip the hormonal "power pose" promises
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