Changing Minds with Owen Fitzpatrick Rerun: How to read a person like a book
Aug 4, 2025
Dive into the art of reading people with intriguing insights on body language, voice tone, and micro-expressions. Discover how empathy and curiosity can enhance your understanding of others. Learn to spot deception through congruence and behavior clusters, while navigating the biases that cloud perceptions. Explore the nuances of lifestyle clues, personal stories, and deliberate signaling. This engaging discussion offers practical strategies for forging deeper connections and recognizing authenticity in a world full of pretension.
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Deception Is About Incongruence And Clusters
- Deception shows up as incongruence across body, voice, and words rather than a single cue.
- Look for clusters of signals and shifts from a person's default behavior to spot possible lies.
Check Your Biases Before Reading People
- Identify your preconceptions before meeting someone and question them.
- Reduce bias by noticing which stereotypes you bring to the interaction.
Four Layers That Create Meaning
- Communication has four layers: text, subtext, context, and supertext that shape meaning.
- You must know the context to correctly interpret the subtext and the speaker's overarching agenda.
