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The Art of Reading Minds: How to Understand and Influence Others Without Them Noticing
Henrik Fexeus
3.36 AVERAGE
34 reviews for:
The Art of Reading Minds: How to Understand and Influence Others Without Them Noticing
Henrik Fexeus
3.36 AVERAGE
Tips and tricks to make better observations... and reading people... not necessarily their minds.
Fun - just because.
Fun - just because.
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Maybe I'm just not interested in reading other people's minds, but I didn't find the stuff in this book terribly illuminating.
funny
informative
slow-paced
Interesting enough. Not sure how much of this will actually be useful to me.
A well-written and insightful guide that helps one become aware of clues people may be giving you about their attitudes, emotions and so on without realizing it. Also, about what you may be unconsciously conveying. It's not really about reading minds so much as just being more attuned to interactions. As a writer I must say that I found the author's detailed considerations to be extremely useful for my own character building and scene setting. I recommend this as a must-read for fiction writers and a should read for everybody else. You'll be surprised at what's right out there in front of you! #WritingCommunity
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Facts about connecting and analyzing people are interesting enough. But makes it even more interesting is it requires a follow-through action after you finish reading it to make this book even more effective.
A thousand thanks to NetGalley and St. Martin’s press for the chance to read this, in exchange for an honest review.
Okay... admittedly, I generally pride myself on being perceptive, a good conversationalist, and intent listener, but this book showed me ways in which I could achieve more. And that’s really what it’s here to do: to help you communicate well (or better!).
I actually find body language and non-verbal communication fascinating, so I ate up every word the author, Henrik Fexeus, wrote. The power of words: what we say, how we say it, who were saying it to... everything is a variable, and everything can be used to “read” someone. I read a book a while ago called Lexicon by Max Barry, which took more of a Science Fiction approach to a parallel concept: that you could use words in a certain way to influence someone. I mean, I’ll admit that I’ve done it before (never for nefarious or immoral reasons!), but testing different tones of voice, or experimenting with higher/lower energies (mimicking whoever you’re speaking with), to see if my conversation partner matches it, and it works! I can steer a conversation in a certain direction by triggering a particular word or phrases. So, yes, I was invested in Mr. Fexeus’ book from the get-go.
I just found it really cool and insightful, on the whole.
Okay... admittedly, I generally pride myself on being perceptive, a good conversationalist, and intent listener, but this book showed me ways in which I could achieve more. And that’s really what it’s here to do: to help you communicate well (or better!).
I actually find body language and non-verbal communication fascinating, so I ate up every word the author, Henrik Fexeus, wrote. The power of words: what we say, how we say it, who were saying it to... everything is a variable, and everything can be used to “read” someone. I read a book a while ago called Lexicon by Max Barry, which took more of a Science Fiction approach to a parallel concept: that you could use words in a certain way to influence someone. I mean, I’ll admit that I’ve done it before (never for nefarious or immoral reasons!), but testing different tones of voice, or experimenting with higher/lower energies (mimicking whoever you’re speaking with), to see if my conversation partner matches it, and it works! I can steer a conversation in a certain direction by triggering a particular word or phrases. So, yes, I was invested in Mr. Fexeus’ book from the get-go.
I just found it really cool and insightful, on the whole.