TONY ROBBINS: This simple trick will make you more assertive in 2 minutes
I’ve always taught people if you want to change your mind or your motion the fastest way is a radical change in your body I’ve taught for decades that trying to do that in your head to be more assertive and it’s hard cuz your brains like oh yeah but what if this what if that and Who am I to do this and the mind plays these games if you see someone who’s depressed without me telling you anything you could tell me that what person has a physiology to them a way of using their body what’s their posture like slumped where’s their head down are they breathing full or shallow you know shallow do they talk really loud and fast or more quiet and more hesitant in order for us to feel any emotion anger frustration uncertainty excitement we have to use our body a certain way emotion comes from emotion so most of us have habits of using our body our breath our movement our facial muscles we have 80 different muscles interphase 8 0 80 for most people this is the largest area of unemployment in the country if you want to change your life and you want to be more assertive get around more assertive people and model them take on their posture move it seems artificial and both stand with your hands on your hips standing straight up if you stand that way for two minutes like Superman Wonder Woman within two minutes the testosterone in you male or female increases an average of 20% and the cortisol which is the stress hormone that stresses you out drops 15% in two minutes and all you’re doing is standing like this and you’re one-third more likely to take action be more assertive do something you normally wouldn’t do I know it sounds totally absurd there’s a TED talk that what she describes this if you want to go see it that’s one simple thing you could do right away
