结构分析：

Theme 1：Our nonverbals govern how we think and feel about ourselves as well as how other people think and feel about us.

Theme 2：Our minds change our bodies, but it is also true that our bodies change our minds.

Theme 3：Power posing for a few minutes really can change our life in meaningful ways, such as the outcomes of stressful evaluation situations. So we can fake it and become it until we make it.

巩固提问：

1. What are the nonverbal expressions when we feel powerful and powerless？

2. What do the minds of powerful versus the powerless look like？

3. How are the two key hormones like for powerful and effective leaders？

4. Why does the author mention “social quicksand”？

参考答案：

1. When we feel powerful, we stretch out and take up space and open up. When we feel powerless, we do exactly the opposite. We close up and wrap ourselves up, making ourselves small.

2. Powerful people tend to be more assertive, more confident and more optimistic. They actually feel that they’re going to win even at games of chance. They also tend to be able to think more abstractly. They take more risks.

3. Powerful and effective leaders have high testosterones, which make them powerful, assertive as well as dominant, and low cortisol, which make them not very stress reactive.

4. The social quicksand is highly stressful evaluative situation where your cortisol spikes. That’s the point when only your true selves matter. The author mentions the social quicksand in order to show that power posing for a few minutes can lower your cortisol and really change your life in meaningful ways such as the outcomes of the job interview.