What Every BODY is Saying audiobook

"Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use."When I first saw the title of this book, I thought it to be some sort of a psychology or medical book. But the short description in the cover quickly piqued my interest for it was kind of an odd subject, not to mention it been written by a law enforcement officer. Well, it's literally about what every 'BODY' is saying, for this is an analytical explanation of how our body communicate its true feelings."When it comes to honesty, truthfulness decreases as we move from the feet to the head."The author point of view - supported by experience from his career as well as research findings - is kind of an eye-opener, for decrypting body language isn't exactly a science and there aren't that many books on the subject, which are tried and tested. I found most of the information to be concise and to the point, with little to no repetition. That being said, compared to the latter half, first part of the book was more interesting to me, for most of the matters in first part were quite new to me, specially how reliable the lower limbs are. Certainly an interesting book, and hoping to get some practice using some of the pointers here to see if they are usable by all.. :)"the feet are the most honest part of the body."

Let me tell you something, even though this book is such a great eye opening book for having more successful conversations with ppl whom you don't know, it can take away your peace. The way this book push you to concentrate more on the body language of people than their speech is somehow fluster.But its great it's worth it and im gonna use it a lot in my life

This was informative, much like other 'non-verbal intelligence books are. What I particularly enjoyed about Joe Navarro's teaching is that the body language itself is not enough to assume a particular emotion. A lot of other books will say, for example, that if you shake your foot a lot you're nervous. But some people are foot shakers or just nervous by nature. With such people they are likely to either shake more violently or simply stop when nervous. So you see, while body language is telling you must also add other important clues up to come to a conclusion. You can't say all people who have a stern look are stern. Some people get nervous anyway when being accused of lying and may exhibit nervous actions. His book is one of the best when it comes to this subject. Sure, not everyone would be easy to read but since reading this book I have been noticing more what certain body language is saying, and honestly it tends to run on the side of true. It's almost laughable how easy the majority of us are to read. Very informative.

ZWISCHENDURCHLEKTÜRE | 3,5/5 ⭐️Auf jeden Fall ein sehr interessantes Buch, allerdings muss ich sagen, dass die wenigsten Informationen wirklich neu für mich waren.Die meisten nonverbalen Zeichen kann man alleine mit dem gesunden Menschenverstand deuten. Aber ein paar wertvolle Erklärungen konnte ich für mich mitnehmen. Kann man lesen, muss man aber nicht.

When I picked up this book I was quite full of scepticism. I know how hard it is to detect deception and I expected that this book was going to tell me 50 ways to spot a liar from various tells. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the author had a good grounding of the science behind body language and tons of field work (unlike the TSA, who with 15 minutes of training, can spot a terrorist just by looking at them).What the book does do is give you dozens and dozens of clues as to how a person is feeling at any given time. If what they are saying does not match their body language, this can be a tip that the person is being deceptive. Usually, all we can discover from these clues is that the person being observed is enduring stress, or happiness, fear, or some other emotion that might be missing from verbal communication.What the book doesn't tell you is that to really make use of the information, one would have to read, re-read, study and practice with the book for a very long time to make the best use of this information. Since reading it, I've watched for some clues mentioned in the book in my personal relationships and found that... 1) they are really hard to observe without being noticed as looking for them... and 2) once observed, you need a lookup table to remember what they mean. Overall, I give the book high marks due to the professional nature of the writing and the admission that lie detection is in fact nearly impossible despite non-verbal clues and that might indicate the possibility of deception. For my own purposes, I think I'll re-read this book in a few months to bolster what I have learned. I imagine that understanding these non-verbal gestures could go a long way to aiding my personal communications for the rest of my life.

Great tips and overall a very interesting read. What I like most is the author's attempt to explain the whys for all the little tidbits he's mentioning here.

This is an excellent must read if you're an author. I recommend the hard copy vs ereader however, because you get pictures in the actual book. This book illustrates what people do with their body when they are afraid, nervous, happy...whatever. Insightful read if that kind of thing interests you, but particularly useful as an author to describe a scene.

I bought this audiobook years ago. I won't deny I happily swallowed the "an ex-FBI agent" bait, grabbing the book when it was on discount. Now I finally got to it, not without some trepidation (what if it would end up being too sensational and simplistic?). As everyone, I've heard bits and pieces about body language and its importance, especially when you are trying to impress, convince, get a job and what not. But this is the first book I ever read on the topic, and I'm glad I happened on Joe Navarro's "What Every Body is Saying" to introduce me to the fascinating world of body language. As somebody who devoted his life to parsing our non-verbal cues, Joe Navarro does know what he is talking about. There is nothing simplistic about his approach. I loved how he repeatedly warned that what can be gleaned from non-verbal cues with great degree of certainty and precision is the level of a person's stress and discomfort, or happiness and comfort, as well as the changes in these conditions -- not the level of truthfulness, which no expert can ascertain with more than fifty percent certainty based solely on body language. The non-verbal cues are important hints that should be analyzed in wider context. They could turn out to be very valuable, but should not be perceived as a magic and perfect polygraph. There is so much more in this book than the obvious elements of body language we all know (and think we can interpret correctly, which is not necessarily true). The material is presented in straightforward and engaging manner. All the body language elements are illustrated by images in an accompanying pdf. Sometimes the book is a bit repetitive, but usually there is a logical reason for this (for example, many of the non-verbal cues discussed in previous chapters are mentioned again in the last chapter in the context of how indicative they are when we try to judge if a person is telling the truth). Along the way we hear a lot of episodes from the author's carrier and personal life when his ability to read non-verbal cues had made a huge difference. I loved that although the author is proud by his level of expertise, he doesn't attempt to come out of these stories as a perfect know-it-all expert who is always right, is able to solve any problem and never makes mistakes.I can't wait to put some of what I learned in this book into practice. ;)

December 2013 Pacifying behaviors are not indicators of lying. Mouth movements and hand movements. Great book. July 2013 - Reread the book, so much information. My take away this time is that I will start focusing on one body part at a time. I am also more aware of self soothing behavior in myself and others.March 2012 - Awesome, so interesting. I am going to have to review this over and over again. This book should easily help me get all of my poker losses back!

The genius of this book doesn't lie in its pages, but in how it modifies your behavior in every day life. I mean, the information is laid out in a pretty basic fashion and it can get a little wordy sometimes (it's written like a conference speech) but it goes to work on your lymbic system (joke you'll get if you read the book :P) You'll start noticing which ways torsos bend and who is steepling his hands in meetings at work. It raises awareness and makes everyday life more interesting and it actually is. Not the best presented book, but quite enjoyable nonetheless.

This exciting book opens your eyes to the very things of body language you know about. The pictorial representations makes it easy to read even not-so avid readers could just take a couple of days or so to complete the entire book. Yet, in the end you feel as though you have achieved and understood the non-verbal behaviour with a better view of the world around you - able to see most of what we take for granted in everyday life.In the book, Navarro demonstrates several types of body languages in pictorial format and then correlates those postures with real-life FBI past experience making his arguments even more convincing. He conveniently highlights his life experiences as an FBI agent in distinctive boxes over many pages bringing the tapestry of human experience in all of its delightful complexity (as he puts it himself). Despite the fact that this book is well recognised in many circles, it is worth noting that some issues discussed are complex due to the fuzzy nature of the topics and lacks proper scientific evidence. However, I give Navarro credit for admitting to this and extra credit for the plethora of bibliography! Talking about fuzziness...what may be a good gesture to one may not be to another depending on several factors such as culture, religion, ethnicity to mention, but a few. However, what is good about this book is that you realise that there is nothing new about body language. All what he says you already know about - it's the way he puts it that makes it interesting! In fact, most of what he explains is common knowledge that anyone at some point in life might have come across consciously or sub-consciously. Navarro splits the non-verbal behaviours into two categories on the basis of human-consciousness - those controlled by the neocortex [conscious] and the limbic part of our brain [sub-conscious]. Most of Navarro's illustrations in this book are based around the limbic part of the brain, which has no control of the human brain. I guess that is why Navarro chose to focus his arguments on this basis because it gives him the flexibility to stretch his arguments as much as he like with no right or wrong answers. So, find out for yourself if this man with a distinguished twenty-five year career with the FBI is what he claims to be? One thing for sure is that this book will put you on the spot-light to be more aware of your surroundings than ever before.

Ever since I first watched the show "Lie to Me," I have been fascinated by non-verbal behavior. I was probably fascinated by it before then, especially when I was a baby and had to rely on gestures to understand how people were feeling, but this is the first time that I have been consciously fascinated by non-verbal behavior.I bought this book along with another book on the same topic, and this was my favorite of the two. I didn't read the whole book straight-through, instead choosing to read a chapter at a time, in the order of what interested me the most. After I purchased this book and had read several chapters, my family and I traveled to D.C. for my History Day competition. We spent a lot of time on the Metro over the course of the trip, and putting my new-found skills to use, I attempted to read the body language of everyone on the metro. This led to some interesting discoveries, and I was amazed at how easy it is to "read" people on a basic level. This is something that we do automatically most of the time, without even thinking about it. However, I was also really happy to find that the common non-verbal behaviors Navarro points out, things that I would have never noticed, really took my observations to a higher level.