The Body Language Advantage: Maximize Your Personal and Professional Relationships

Book Preface

The body doesn’t lie and neither do voice or speech patterns. If you know how to read others, you truly have an added advantage over others. All relationships ebb and flow—if you can read what is really going on, you can help thwart potential problems.

For instance, you may hear your wife swallow her words at the end of a sentence so that they are inaudible as she tells you that everything is fine. But you will know that everything is not fine when you hear her monotone and observe her deadpan facial expression and leaning away from you as she speaks these words. Picking up on cues like these gives you the opportunity to open a dialogue about what is bothering her—perhaps you’re spending too much time with your golfing buddies and not enough with her.

Reading body language and listening to vocal cues can help you figure out whether your spouse or lover is being faithful or whether the hottie you’ve been chatting up really likes you or is just being polite. Wouldn’t it be great to know that there are certain body language “tells”—signals that involve the feet, hands, the way people lean or don’t lean toward you—that let you know whether to keep talking or start walking?