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A class ring. T-shirts with slogans. Tattoos. Pay attention to them because they're usually accurate signs. Here's Sam :
Now this is all pretty personal. So what about if you're trying to read someone in a professional context?
Want to know if someone is good at their job? Then watch them do it for thirty seconds - or even just six seconds . Your guess about their competence is more likely to be right than wrong:
Want to know if someone's smart? Research says this is hard to tell from mere appearance when evaluating adults. But there's a trick that can help. Are they funny? Because funny people are smart :
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And there's one other thing to listen for while they're yakking. The word "I" can be very telling...
Powerful people don't say it much . Less powerful people say it the most:
(To learn wh...
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So we need to focus on unconscious behaviors that aren't easily controlled and convey a clear message.
In Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World , the authors mention one to keep your eye on:
- Speech mimicry and
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And there's one other thing to listen for while they're yakking. The word "I" can be very telling...
Powerful people don't say it much . Less powerful people say it the most:
Pennebaker f...
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Beyond that, trust people who are consistently emotionally expressive in their body language:
These results suggest that cooperators may be more emotionally expressive than non-cooperators. We speculate that emotional e...
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Straightforward people
Straightforward people are easy to be around with because we know exactly what the issues are from the start. There is no need to guess or infer or translate.
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