Our bodies change our minds, and our minds can change our behavior, and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Cuddy’s line condenses a central claim of embodied cognition and her popular “power posing” message: posture and other bodily cues can influence subjective mental states (confidence, anxiety), which in turn shape how we act in social and performance settings. The final link—behavior changing outcomes—points to downstream effects such as improved persistence, clearer communication, or greater willingness to take risks, which can alter real-world results (interviews, negotiations, leadership moments). Read as a causal chain, it emphasizes agency through small, controllable physical adjustments, while also implying a feedback loop: changed outcomes can reinforce new behaviors and self-concepts.