The power pose that instills confidence

The Tweet: “Standing like a superhero for as little as two minutes configures our brains to cope well in stressful situations.” Legs apart, chest out and hands on hips, the ‘superhero’ stance is an example of what psychologists refer to as an ‘open posture‘. Open postures are supposed to convey power, confidence and authority by […]

When normal people have super strength

The Tweet: “Human muscles are limited by our brain – we actually have the strength to move cars and boulders.” Stories of mothers who were able to lift cars to save their trapped children, passersby summoning super-human strength to come to the rescue of strangers and climbers releasing limbs caught under huge boulders sound like […]