As I said, I've got to start somewhere. So I figured, why not a book?
Enter Janine Driver's book, You Say More Than You Think. This book claims to be able to improve your body language perception of others, while at the same time shaping your thinking to be able to respond to those body language cues in every day situations.
The promises are great, but as I view myself a moderate skeptic to loudly written claims, one can only find out if you apply yourself full-force. This book requires the use of a journal, which I will replace with this blog.
The first chapter was full of promises, backed up by strategically placed examples and a good exercise that tells about people's attention spans and their inattentive blindness. (Seeing the forest and not the trees, or shrubbery, because wherever there's trees, there's shrubbery). Anyways, this has an apparent connection to body language as a whole. One concept that intrigues me is the reading of body language signals as a whole, not specific positions and then responding. Rather, taking one's time and looking at their smaller motions, foot position, hip placement, eye contact, rate of speaking speed, facial expressions, and many more.
So actually, I'm kind of excited about this book, but tempering my expectations. Lets see.
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