Essay on Ted Talk Analysis

When I think of body language I think of those movies that are about Cinderella and when you go on an interview and do not want to slouch over. The body language we have can make us as people feel powerful and confident at interviews and just in a personal matters. When we communicate it is not just through words, it is our body language as well. It can relate to the way we walk up to someone or the attitude of our body like we do not want to talk to someone, or when we just feel open, and finally when our arms are not crossed. When I was watching this ted talk it reminded me of when I was in my public speaking class and in a situation where I was feeling scared and nervous and my body language affected my ability to talk to the class or said persons.

I did not want to feel this way because I felt like I did not do so well and I have been defeated. When my body feels like that I start to notice what my body does, I start to cross my arms, I start fidgeting my legs crossing them and uncrossing them, and start to look towards the ground which is a sign of being nervous or shy. When I feel uncomfortable as in a feeling it would show in my body language. Does that mean our work, is the same or just about? Another thing is that we feel confident will the language of our body coincides with doing better in public speaking and anything else that is personal. In the Ted Talk that was done by Amy Cuddy, it was about “Your Body Language May Shape Who you are, what I did notice is that she used a lot of ethos, pathos, and logos, but also a lot of mixed media (visuals), she uses these to argue effectively that body language and the mindset can shape who a person is and how their life can turn out to be.

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Amy Cubby is a social psychologist, she also does lectures, and she does things for the New York Times. I have noticed she has talked about in this Ted Talk she talked about verbal behaviors, but also how people affect their own thoughts, feeling, and even behaviors. Another thing I really like about this Ted talk is that she said something that really caught my eye “ you can fake it till you make it”. That is something I go by all the time because you can not control what others do but you can control your own body language and how you perceive it. Amy did talk about a lot of her non-verbal behavior experiments, that were talked about in the TED talk. When they have a powerful body stance and a weak or not-so-good body stance you can tell the difference in confidence in public speaking and or in everyday life.

Logos which is logic-based reasoning has been present through more than two-thirds of the whole Ted Talk which is a lot. This does support everything she was talking about in body language and what mindset you would need or will find out who you really are you can get a lot of that throughout your life and it can also affect how well you do in your life as well. The first one Amy Cuddy used for logos is all about facts and data through all of the examples she provides throughout the ted talk. Then she talks about the findings from Tufts University by Nalini Ambady, on how people react to body language. Amy Cuddy also talks more about that with the facts and data, that can coincide with that the behavior of humans and even animals throughout the animal kingdom. There were more studies on the animal kingdom and the behaviors of humans. The facts that were said and studies that were done help picture the body language and how nonverbal behaviors look like and how you can help that to be better.

There were a lot of examples that can prove her point, but she also has a persuasive strategy that proves it all as well. What I found throughout Amy Cuddy's Ted talk was that she clearly displayed the ethos side of the whole beginning of her talk. Ethos is the credibility of a speaker, it is also it is all about the character that is being displayed or talked about and how true it is. When Amy Cuddy starts to walk out of that stage she used visuals to aid her in what she was trying to say, not only to get her point across but to get the audience engaged. But really if you think about it she did this throughout the whole ted talk. What she did was tell me her educational background and where she works currently or in the past. She told us that she is a social psychologist and she teaches at a business school. What I forgot to mention in the beginning is what I liked about Amy Cuddy, is that she tells us as her audience a little about her personal experiences and life but also where and what she did for her education and this was throughout a few minutes of the video but also sporadic in the video.

Throughout the Ted Talk, there was pathos. Pathos is emotionally based statements and talks so that it will be able to convince her audience. Her goal is for us to believe that our body language would shape how we think and also change how our lives turn out because of our body language. When she starts to get personal it seemed like the audience in the TED talk was convinced and believed why she was doing the ted talk and her credibility but also I was believing her through all of the stories she was telling us and what she was just saying. When the Ted talk started towards the middle to end of it there were a lot of media being used to help support her talk and even convince her audience still but to keep them all engaged. At the beginning of the talk, she used a photo of a runner who was happy and his hands were in the air, but he was also smiling. That is something she said is positive body language where they feel accomplished. Then they succeed in the end. But she also was talking about how his stance so that it can demonstrate what she was trying to say and give examples to the audience. Throughout the whole Ted Talk, she used around 5 pictures to support the evidence she was trying to make her point. But she also used her own body and another example for real-life visuals so that her audience so she can show what a good body stance looks like and what does not look so good to a higher authority. When Amy Cuddy used all of these multimedia choices it was to highlight her argument and to bring everything she was saying, it all comes together and the audience does get it and I do.

There was another multimedia thing where she used a chair to describe the difference between high-power and low-powered poses can change how people do things like when people gamble than with people with testosterone. We use body language every day, it is not something we do not do. When we go about our everyday lives we see all different kinds of body language. Now that I think of it when my body language is good or great I am able to control my emotions and feel more confident. Body language is very important and we work on that every day as well for important things and just in general.

It is better to know how your body reacts to something or how it feels so that we as people can realize what we need to change and how we can feel more confident to do better in life. This Ted Talk is a very persuasive argument of how we see our body language and how we react to those things that control our body language. I will always remember now what Amy Cuddy said, “Fake it till you make it”. That’s something I have always gone by but really didn’t notice.

Citation Page:

1. “Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are | Amy Cuddy.” YouTube, 1 Oct. 2012, www.youtube.comwatch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc