What Every BODY Is Saying

An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People

De: Joe Navarro, Marvin Karlins

Narrado por: Paul Costanzo

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.

Let Me Hear Your Body Talk

One of the first books I listened to on Audible was Joe Mavarro and Marvin Karlins' "What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People" (2012). It was so long ago that I hadn't started writing reviews, but that was fortunate with this book. I've been using some of the techniques described in the book for 18 months, and they work. I wouldn't have known that when I finished the book.

I am a civil trial attorney, and I long relied on gut feeling and intuition when I picked a jury. In other words, just dumb look. This book gave me the ability to know, with some basis, whether a jury liked my client or the opposition, and whether I was effectively advocating my client's defense. Once, in a memory seared sharp, I completely torqued a juror off, which I realized by her flared nostrils and lips pursed together to nonexistence. I was able to dig out of that situation.

This isn't the key to picking a perfect jury, but it helps. It's like knowing a secret code.

I occasionally listen to the book to refresh my techniques. The book teaches how to speed read people, but learning the techniques takes a lot of time, patience, practice and feedback - when you can get it.

I'm giving the book an overall 4 because it is so useful, but it's a 3 on the story. Despite the exciting topic, it's pretty dry and academic. The narration is a three, too. It sounds more like a business seminar than a narration.

I want to mention that "What Every Body is Saying" and Pamela Meyer's "Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception" (2011) really builds on Navarro's techniques. Listen to them consecutively, and it's like a college psychology course.

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Great text.

Would you consider the audio edition of What Every BODY Is Saying to be better than the print version?

No. They are essentially the same.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

The narrator had a good serious tone that was appropriate to the content. However, it was much too obvious that he was reading and thus it was quite monotone.

ok

sounds like its read by a robot. really hurt my ears. good material though otherwise.

Excellent read. Simple yet powerful concepts.

Great Narrator for great content. I'll definitely be listening through this one again to absorb all the information.

Wow! Great book to become more aware

Learning about body language is great to be able to better understand others as well as my own self!