Well done, Mother Jones
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.
-Mindy Kaling
If at first you don't succeed, you're not trying to do easy enough stuff.
— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) March 7, 2013
I have already annoyed all of my friends and family to watch this video, so now I am posting it to hound the rest of the world. I can't tell you how helpful I found it.
Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy shows how "power posing" -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don't feel confident -- can affect testosterone and cortisol levels in the brain, and might even have an impact on our chances for success.