Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are

Summary:
Amy Cuddy is an American social psychologist currently teaching at Harvard Business School. Her research on body language indicates that we can change other people’s perceptions and even our own body chemistry just by changing our body positions. The concept is called "power posing." This concept means that body positions can influence people and make them more confident even if they were just pretending at the beginning. What is interesting is that it increases the level of testosterone and cortisone in our brain, leading to future success and confidence.

What can listeners learn from this talk?
From this TED Talk, listeners can make their life better by trying some positive gestures. I've noticed that some classmates or even myself tend to make our body small when we are in a class that we don't like or are not good at. But according to Amy Cuddy, you can turn into a completely different person when you pretend to be one. By pretending, we act like as if we are really confident, and in the end, we do really become confident. So if any listeners lack confidence, they will benefit from this TED Talk.

Hetain Patel: Who am I? Think again

Summary
       The artist, Hetain Patel works with his partner, Yuyu Rau, and demonstrated a creative TED Talk by their amazing perfomances with identity, language and accent. They challenged the audiences by questioning their perception. Who do you think you are? The more you understand about a certain person, the more you understand yourself. Hetain Patel talked about his intimidation of his Dad and Bruce Lee, while in the end, he found himself understanding himself more rather than understanding these two people. In this clip, Patel and Rau put up an outstanding act of art and surprised the crowd.

What can listeners learn from this talk?
       Race, ethnicity and gender are all superficial. They masquerade our true feelings about ourselves, which is being just an authentic and unique human. We often see perspectives, imitation and expectations as individuals and have a notion of what we expect. But actually when Patel changed his voice and tone, he is becoming another form that we had not anticipated. In other words, when we think about who we are, we shouldn't be limited to our original perspectives. Instead, we should look deep into ourselves and really think about who we really are.

Movie Clip - The Naked Gun

Which movie does this clip come from?

This clip is from the movie The Naked Gun.

What is this movie about?

The Naked Gun is one of the re-runs from the TV series "Police Squad." It is talking about a detective called Frank Drebin who is trying to uncover a plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II, who is currently visiting the United States. A rich businessman called Vincent Ludwig was suspected to be the killer. Funny thing is, during the search, Drebin fell in love with Ludwig's assistant, Jane Spencer. She knew nothing about her boss' plot, but later on helped Drebin with the investigation.

What is happening in this clip?

Frank Drebin went undercover as the umpire of the baseball game. Since he had no experiences, he hesitated at the beginning. Later, he turned out to become a spark of star on the diamond, pulling off funky dance moves and acting like a pro. Sometimes he even body checked the players whenever they just hit a home run or trying to catch a foul ball. Since I watch and play baseball, I knew how these moves could be so weird and funny on the field, but also wondering that suppose he is trying to stay undercover but all the things he did made him under the spotlight, isn't it strange?