I often get email responses to the articles I post on www.CKG.com. Here are a couple that came after I posted "Emotional Contagion" - an article that ended with this paragraph: "Each of us gives and responds to hundreds of facial expressions daily -- from co-workers’ grins to clenched-jaw displays around the conference table, Looked at another way, you are part of an emotional chain-reaction effect. Especially now, in challenging times, we need to make sure we’re part of the (positive emotion) solution, and not part of the problem."
Here's one . . .
Thanks for this article. I've known this for much of my career, but it's a great reminder. I remember seeing a biography on Dwight Eisenhower. His first major battle of WW2 was in North Africa. - He lost. In analyzing why, he came to the conclusion that he had let his worries, stresses and tensions about the plan of attack to be shown and adopted by his team. - He felt that was the key reason for the defeat.
From then on, for the rest of his life, he was always seen smiling, projecting a confident air, whenever in public, no matter what monumental issues and concerns he was addressing.
And another . . .
Excellent article, Carol, and one that brought back to mind a party game we were taught some 20 years ago. The game involved a simple test of strength in which the principle player held out his/her arm and then tried to resist having it pulled downward by an 'opponent' of roughly the same size, weight and strength. Just before the contest began, another player held up one of two sheets of paper showing a very simple drawn face - merely a large circle with two dots for eyes and a line for a mouth - for the principle player to look at while trying to keep his/her arm from being moved. The only difference between the two drawings was that the mouth curved upwards in one and downwards in the other. No matter which drawing the principle was shown first, the result was always the same - success while looking at the smiling mouth, failure while looking at the other. Not exactly scientific, but I did try it once on a scientist friend who is the world's biggest skeptic - and it worked on him just as well.
Here's one . . .
Thanks for this article. I've known this for much of my career, but it's a great reminder. I remember seeing a biography on Dwight Eisenhower. His first major battle of WW2 was in North Africa. - He lost. In analyzing why, he came to the conclusion that he had let his worries, stresses and tensions about the plan of attack to be shown and adopted by his team. - He felt that was the key reason for the defeat.
From then on, for the rest of his life, he was always seen smiling, projecting a confident air, whenever in public, no matter what monumental issues and concerns he was addressing.
And another . . .
Excellent article, Carol, and one that brought back to mind a party game we were taught some 20 years ago. The game involved a simple test of strength in which the principle player held out his/her arm and then tried to resist having it pulled downward by an 'opponent' of roughly the same size, weight and strength. Just before the contest began, another player held up one of two sheets of paper showing a very simple drawn face - merely a large circle with two dots for eyes and a line for a mouth - for the principle player to look at while trying to keep his/her arm from being moved. The only difference between the two drawings was that the mouth curved upwards in one and downwards in the other. No matter which drawing the principle was shown first, the result was always the same - success while looking at the smiling mouth, failure while looking at the other. Not exactly scientific, but I did try it once on a scientist friend who is the world's biggest skeptic - and it worked on him just as well.
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