“Did you do the power pose, Mr Salzman?”, asked Miriam. The power pose, of course!
There is teaching and learning going on in my classroom everyday. Somedays I’m the teacher and the students are learning, and just as often I’m doing the learning. Some learning is incremental, like learning the Adobe Magic Wand tool, somedays more significant like mastering that flexible and therefore complicated Adobe Pen tool. And occasional there are life-changing lessons, or at least life-long tips and tricks, like the power pose.
I was just leaving school to go to my Rickshaw interview/lesson, and I was a little anxious. My anxiety was immediately lessened because Miriam was schooling the teacher. She may forget the pen tool, but I’m thinking she’ll remember the power pose. Of course may anxiety disappeared after completing a 2 minute power pose.
If you don’t know what I’m referring to, and you have 21 minutes, watch this Amy Cuddy Video; and if you don’t have the time now, watch it later, or at least make your kids watch it.
Rickshaw Diaries 