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18 Customer Reviews Posted
- Playing Detective for Business or Pleasure
- For those who enjoy playing detective, analyzing people, or just trying to gather clues for `fitting in' with a culture or sub-culture, this book may be an informative read. Referring to humans as `naked apes', expert interrogator, Gregory Hartley, uses this body language primer to introduce his R.E.A.D. (Review, Evaluate, Analyze, Decide) system for figuring out what is really going down when an `unknown monkey' enters the fray.
Acknowledging that context defines everything, including the signs from body language, the reader is first treated to a lesson in culture as the biggest external influence. That said, Hartley gives the reader a tutorial in what various facial components (the forehead or brow speaks loudest) may be saying - is that a smile of recognition or discomfort? Don't judge yet, just gather data (including body posture and limb movement) and in this `Review `stage, catalogue what you see. Develop a baseline and look for changes that are inconsistent with the words spoken - this is the `Evaluate' stage. Is that change due to excitement or embarrassment? Now it is time to make it personal and `Analyze' the individual so that you can `Decide' what to do with the information you gather.
How simple is that? Not very, was my observation after reading the book, so I looked at Hartley's points to remember:
* Culture is pervasive
* Long-term relationships...create...blinding...filters
* False cognates exist in body language, as well as spoken language
* Baseline what is normal first
* Build your own list of....mood indicators
* Context is everything
Still, not a very clear how-to list for me, and I conclude that it is very difficult, even for an expert, to write about how to read others. Perhaps it is just best to ask what they mean! Dennis DeWilde, author of "The Performance Connection" - 2007-10-17, 7 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good book
- Good Book, easy to read and some easy tips for picking up body language signals
- 2007-10-02, 0 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- very interesting
- Great book with a lot of information. For anyone who wants to know more about themselves and others!
- 2007-08-16, 1 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Good read
- I really liked this book. It gives a large overview of body language and how to read it. It's a bit dry and contains quite a lot of information. Expect to have to re-read it a few times to understand and be able to apply the information contained within.
- 2007-05-26, 9 of 11 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Incredibly helpful for me
- I had an unusual reason to order this book -- my child has a mild case of Asperger's Syndrome. This means that she lacks the skills to interpret body language unless she learns it as a "second language." So I bought it with her in mind. As I read it, I was surprised how extremely helpful it was for ME. I honestly never realized how much I was missing! The skills it teaches will help with relationships of all kinds, business and personal. I truly believe readers will find it valuable and fascinating -- not to mention well written! Thank you, Gregory Hartley and Maryann Karinch!
- 2007-05-25, 12 of 18 people found this review helpful, Rated:
