Amy Cudd's Persuasive And Informative TED Talk

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Social psychologist, Amy Cuddy in her persuasive and informative TED talk, “Fake It Till You Make It,” claims that our mindset can change due to our body language. She supports her claim by first telling the audience about the many social experiments. Then about the data they got from it due to the person's reaction to their different obstacles. Cuddy’s purpose is to inform the audience in order to prove to them that our body language can change our mindset. She uses so much passion to explain to the audience how their hormone levels change too. She succeeds to convince her audience, because she is able to see the change in the people who hear her

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