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Juli's Reviews > What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People
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As an ex-FBI agent, Joe Navarro had plenty of opportunities to observe human behavior during his career. And what he noticed was that humans give away a lot of information, unintentionally and uncontrollably, because of the way our limbic brain acts unconsciously to protect and support us.
While it’s definitely tempting to dream about becoming a super-powered observer of all human emotion, capable of detecting lies at ten paces, Navarro is pretty clear that this is far more an art than a science, and that deception is unusually difficult to pinpoint. After establishing baseline behavior, you can mostly use these nonverbal tells to determine whether someone is comfortable or uncomfortable with a given situation, person, topic of conversation, or line of inquiry.
See my takeaways from this great read here.
While it’s definitely tempting to dream about becoming a super-powered observer of all human emotion, capable of detecting lies at ten paces, Navarro is pretty clear that this is far more an art than a science, and that deception is unusually difficult to pinpoint. After establishing baseline behavior, you can mostly use these nonverbal tells to determine whether someone is comfortable or uncomfortable with a given situation, person, topic of conversation, or line of inquiry.
See my takeaways from this great read here.
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Reading Progress
October 5, 2018
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Started Reading
October 5, 2018
– Shelved
October 9, 2018
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Finished Reading
October 16, 2018
– Shelved as:
non-fic-bingo-2018
