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The secrets of body language

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Re: The secrets of body language

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As a great practical guide to reading and applying body language, I'd recommend "What everybody is saying" by Dave Navarro. Guy used to do body language analysis for the FBI afaik, and then wrote a book about it. http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/d... Concerning the body language tips the article recomends, I think everyone except arms crossed behind head is covered for in the book. Arm akimb…

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Re: The secrets of body language

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As a great practical guide to reading and applying body language, I'd recommend "What everybody is saying" by Dave Navarro. Guy used to do body language analysis for the FBI afaik, and then wrote a book about it. http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/d... Concerning the body language tips the article recomends, I think everyone except arms crossed behind head is covered for in the book. Arm akimb…

by Dave Navarro

I think you mean Joe Navarro, unless the guitarist from Jane's Addiction and RHCP has led a far richer life than I previously imagined.

Re: The secrets of body language

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As a great practical guide to reading and applying body language, I'd recommend "What everybody is saying" by Dave Navarro. Guy used to do body language analysis for the FBI afaik, and then wrote a book about it. http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-BODY-Saying-Speed-Reading/d... Concerning the body language tips the article recomends, I think everyone except arms crossed behind head is covered for in the book. Arm akimb…

Joe Navarro also wrote an excellent book on how to read poker tells called "Read 'em and Reap."

The books emphasises the importance of identifying behavioral patterns and recognizing deviations due to stress/confidence.

Re: The secrets of body language

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I know that body language and customs are different, but I wanted to point out that in some Asian cultures, arm-crossing is done as a sign of respect, especially towards elders. It's a source of confusion and amusement for older people when the Western-integrated young people get angry. That said, one should keep an eye out for more than just nonverbal cues, as telling as they may be.

It would make sense that a "powerless" gesture taken in deference to another is seen as a sign of respect.

Re: The secrets of body language

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The fun part is watching people actually try to control their body language in reality. You can try, but if you aren't feeling what that "power pose" is broadcasting, you'll just look like an idiot to anyone even remotely paying attention.

You aren't going to gain leadership by leaning back and spread eagling in a business meeting. You're going to gain it by being an actual leader and doing stuff that adds value to an organization.

Re: The secrets of body language

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post #6

I hate it when people put their feet up on tables, especially near my person. If you did that around me I'd just think you were an asshole.

If you read carefully, the post advises doing this -before- the meeting, when no one is around, to pump up your hormones.

Re: The secrets of body language

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I noticed eye contact in a video. Seduction is an art.

Not relevant to me.

God says...

2:14 And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

2:15 And it came to pass, that, as Jesus sat at meat in his house, many publicans and sinners sat also together with Jesus and his disciples: for there were many, and they followed him.

2:16 And when the scribes and Pharisees saw him eat with publicans and sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans and sinners? 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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LOL Jesus was charismatic! Damn! Got people to drop everything! Life was crappy back then a running around preaching was fun.

Body language. What does your conscience tell you? To me is seems slightly like cheating. If you don't think that, do it.

I don't agree with this, but it's a thought "How does a real man know when a woman is having an orgasm? He doesn't care."

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God says...

fourteen days.

8:66 On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.

9:1 And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do, 9:2 That the LORD appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.

9:3 And the LORD said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and thy supplication, that thou hast made before me: I have hallowed this house, which thou hast built, to put my name there for ever; and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

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The entertainment value of the bombing is right up there with gladiators. I think God shrugged at gladiators as sports. I think He pays more attention to Afganstan than pro football. It's not ghoulish when you are God -- life and death is more important and you have sure seen a lot of it.

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God says...

1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

1:7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

1:8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

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This crime scene investigator is new, foreign and I don't like it. It's Stazi and pathetic. Come-on! Too much CSI. The news people think they can get ratings. Maybe, Obama and CIA are doing something. I never understood Bush logic. You get shit that is just not sensible.

Re: The secrets of body language

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This is great stuff as long as you like people who breath their own exhaust.

As soon as you encounter someone who is not speaking the same language, there will be great confusion. Usually, this means anyone from outside of MBA/Marketing/ or other art-of-BS type disciplines.

Re: The secrets of body language

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I feel like this is one of those instances where, once everyone knows about it, everyone does it, and everyone knows why you're doing it. Therefore, it eventually becomes ineffective (perhaps there is a name for this phenomenon). If I keep seeing books/blog posts/news segments on "power poses" then every interviewee starts putting their feet on my table, surely I'll notice. It's the body language version of a buzzword.

Also Zed Shaw had an interesting take on putting your feet on the table, but the link appears to be dead now. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1235791

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