Eastman: Nonverbal Behavior Cannot Be Decoded Without Verbal Context
Blake Eastman · Blake Eastman: Learn to Read Anyone · Jan 9, 2024 · at 41:02
Behavioral expert Blake Eastman explains to Shane Parrish why isolated body language analysis without spoken context leads to flawed interpretations.
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“You can't really separate nonverbal from verbal. I mean, maybe the only place you could do this is poker and a couple of other things. The truth is, We're always, so the model for how we read a behavior is we're looking at behavior within a context, and we're coming up the reason for why it occurs. If you don't have, like, words, you don't understand the context.”
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