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What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People
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What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

Written by Joe Navarro and Marvin Karlins

Narrated by Paul Costanzo

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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About this audiobook

Joe Navarro, a former FBI counterintelligence officer and a recognized expert on nonverbal behavior, explains how to ""speed-read"" people: decode sentiments and behaviors, avoid hidden pitfalls, and look for deceptive behaviors. You'll also learn how your body language can influence what your boss, family, friends, and strangers think of you. You will discover:

  1. The ancient survival instincts that drive body language 
  2. Why the face is the least likely place to gauge a person's true feelings 
  3. What thumbs, feet, and eyelids reveal about moods and motives 
  4. The most powerful behaviors that reveal our confidence and true sentiments 
  5. Simple nonverbals that instantly establish trust 
  6. Simple nonverbals that instantly communicate authority 

Filled with examples from Navarro's professional experience, this definitive book offers a powerful new way to navigate your world. Listen this book and send your nonverbal intelligence soaring.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperAudio
Release dateDec 13, 2011
ISBN9780062189165
Author

Joe Navarro

FBI Special Agent (Ret.) JOE NAVARRO worked for the Bureau in counterintelligence and counterterrorism. He is now a lecturer and consultant for major companies worldwide. He is the author of What Every BODY is Saying, and has appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews, the Today Show, the CBS Early Show, CNN, Fox News, and other major media. He lives in Tampa, Florida.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great insight and practical application in how to use in social settings.

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Enjoyed this book - well read and structured. Will listen again

    1 person found this helpful

  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook! Lots of fun insights that I could use immediately at family gatherings. At some points it got a bit monotonous, but overall, i enjoyed it!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A must read if you are into psychology and reading people
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Great book great reader. I definitely enjoyed listening to this
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent book. Highly recommemded. Opens your eyes to thevworld of body language reading.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Amazing book!! It was so jam packed with useful information that you almost have to listen to each chapter twice to absorb it all, highly educational!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Thank you for the awesome book mr joe and scribd , totally mind-blowing!!!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A leader in the field, great book for anyone looking to improve their body language skills
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Good one. Very insightful and educational . More please. Haha
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book is absolutely amazing and accurate. It was written and read very well. Although it kept referring to a pdf and idk where it is . Lol
    Loved it and learned a lot about what people's nonverbal signs tell us. Thanks A
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very interesting content. Narrator has done a good job of it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    One of the best books I have ever read, so informative and so good. I loved it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    where can i find the pdf attatched? not available at the end
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    For someone who is interested in human psychology, and nature. A must listen.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Exceptional book
    I love it
    Super helpful
    Extremelly intuitive and smart author
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A great topic, easy to read book and well written
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I have learned a lot from this book. Definitely worth the "read".
    After listening to it, I was able to distinguish why I was perceived a certain way and why I had an innate sense of "this person is lying". As the author says, some people have been able to learn it naturally, but this book helps those that don't know all the clues and where to look for them

    2 people found this helpful

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Thru life, we become aware of lots of non-verbal signals. This audiobook digs deep into the physiology of these signals, and how to interpret them. The vocabulary of such signals is much more extensive than I thought. And a key is recognizing that it’s not the presence of a reflex, but rather the changes in these signals.

    But, as an audiobook, at least as presented by Scribd, there’s a glaring omission. There’s frequent references to about 80 illustrations of various gestures, but these illustrations are nowhere to be found! This is a huge hole in Scribd’s offering of this work. If this was fixed, my review would increase from 4 to 5 stars.

    2 people found this helpful

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Pretty fascinating book. I'm pretty good at reading other peoples non-verbal cues but HORRIBLE at realizing what my own are. I'm sure I'm the most expressive person ever and I'm sure my body language betrays me all the time. Reading this book just helped me understand why we act and move the way we do even though we're not even aware we're doing it. Each chapter breaks down a different section of the body and how to speed read someone's mood, tell if they're lying, nervous, happy, or uncomfortable based off subtle body movements. I learned the most on the section about feet, they're one of the most expressive parts of your body and also one of the most overlooked. Feet placement can be very indicative of a person's true emotions. Overall an interesting and enlightening read; full of information that I've already started putting to use.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I suppose some people are masters of body language already, or have learned this stuff so long ago that it seems like common-sense to them, but I'm enjoying it and also feeling like I'm learning something. You'd have to read it yourself to know if there's anything you don't already know.

    I'm sure people who are socially awkward would benefit from this, whether or not they have Asperger's or are neuro-typical. And should I ever again find myself in a position to need this kind of advice, I will definitely seek this book out. If you're in the dating pool, having trouble with your teens, trying to succeed at job interviews, or otherwise need to communicate using non-verbals as well as words, especially with someone whose complete honesty you are unsure of, I recommend this.

    I enjoyed reading it even though I have no immediate need of it. Navarro's amiable and lucid explanatory tone is pleasing, the photos are clear, and the examples illuminating. I also appreciate that the book is well-organized and includes bibliography and index. I just hope bad guys don't study it.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Educational. Learned a lot about what's behind common body language. Wanders around quite a bit - I like this sort of non-fiction to be a bit more well-organized for future reference.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Excellent in insight into non-verbal communication from an expert. I especially enjoyed his associated experiences with specific "tells" (non-verbal communication).
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The author is an ex-FBI agent, and in this interesting book he explains how to detect if a person is lying. He looks for bodily reactions to pointed questioning and argues that particular limbic reactions are almost impossible to fake. He explains that it needs training, and usefully shows the error of taking voluminous speech to represent truthfulness and unease to represent deception.The only other book that I've read on the subject is Charles Darwin's "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals" but I found Navarro's book more enjoyable since it's crime focused and finer tuned.