Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors

by Patrick King

only about seven percent of our communication comes from actual spoken word, whereas a whopping fifty-five percent of it stems from body language.

you need to understand what motivates a person.

great way to consider yours and the other person’s shadow is to watch what feelings their behavior triggers in you.

you have a healthy level of self-esteem when you can accept yourself even if you are misunderstood or outright disliked by others.

This is what it sounds like when the ego steps in to protect itself. There’s so much justification and deflecting going on that it’s difficult to know what is real and what is not.

Though we can use various methods to read facial expressions and body language, it pays to remember that no single piece of information is enough to “prove” anything, and that the art of reading people this way comes down to taking a holistic view of the full scenario as it unfolds in front of you.

Liars tend to speak more (the old “protesting too much”) and use more sense words (i.e., to do with seeing, touching etc.) and fewer personal pronouns (perhaps unconsciously distancing themselves or subtly blaming others).