Body Language
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
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5 statements about Body Language, every show
O'Leary: Closed body language in presentations makes audiences uncomfortable
“Take up more space, and the smaller you are, the more space you need to take up, because you're making the audience uncomfortable, even if you don't know that you are.”
Alexander: Puffed-chest body language signals insecurity rather than true alpha confidence
“A person that is, is pronounced, like, chest out, all that stuff, beta. So that's a person that's trying to be alpha, and they feel insecure, and they're trying to project out, I can hurt you know, I'm confident.”
Eastman: Reading body language requires observing shifts, not assigning fixed meanings
“So the truth is a lot of people using body language experts will look at someone's behavior and be like, oh, like this means this, and this means that that's not really what you're doing. I think it's more about noticing than making meaning out of.”
Duke: People excessively leaning back to project relaxation should not be believed
“But if someone's too leaned back, if they're taking up too much space, generally you shouldn't believe a thing they're saying. Because people generally aren't like this. It's sort of like purposely trying to look relaxed.”
Duke: Accurate behavioral predictions require combining physical cues with historical baselines
“So what's good to do is sort of take these kind of physical cues and merge them with the story that they've kind of told you in the past as you've gotten a feel for how they behave in different situations, and that now you can merge together to make some sort …”