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Jillian Michaels’ take on weight loss is to give you a ton of options – each option is worth a certain amount of points. She lets you select the options that seem to work for you with the goal of adding up enough points to get you into a weight loss zone. So, here we… Continue Reading
American’s eat too damn much. American food companies put too much crap in their food that doesn’t fill you up, but makes you feel like you’re still hungry even after you’ve consumed it – so you eat more! American’s put so much on a plate that a small family in a third-world country could feed… Continue Reading
Whenever I teach body language reading or lie detecting through body language, the biggest challenge is trying to remember all of the individual little tells that people use to try to cover their own BS. Probably one of the most popular forms of body language detection is through the use the holy grail of behavior detection… Continue Reading
The human body is full of great information and when you’re paying attention, you can learn all sorts of things and filter through the words the person is using, to see what they are really saying. The voice is a powerful indicator of emotion (Driver 98), and is one of the most reliable indicators of… Continue Reading
We’ve set up the lie detector situation, so now let’s talk about how you actually do it. The first step is, as Driver puts it (74) is to Gather Intel, also known as baselining, or norming. Baselining is a very short period of time where you establish rapport with the other person, asking a series… Continue Reading
As early as 6 months old, babies will fake their laughter to get others to join in or be part of the group (Driver 37). By 11 months they pretend to not hear us because they are either doing something they aren’t supposed to do, or they are busy and don’t want to be bothered… Continue Reading
Wouldn’t it be awesome if whenever someone was talking to you, a little meter popped up over their head, with a needle that pointed from Truth to Total BS? That way you’d know whether to trust them or not. Well, in a way, that’s what body language does – you just need to know how… Continue Reading
TSA’s recent announcement that they are transferring the guarding of the exit lanes (from the sterile area) from their control to airport control, has caused a lot of heartache throughout the industry, both in terms of policy-making and policy-implemetation. The strategy represents a shift of how TSA has worked with industry since 9/11 and also… Continue Reading
No one likes being lied to, but everyone lies! Yet, we still consider ourselves good people, so we feel guilty that we’re lying which allows certain behaviors to “leak” out (Driver 15). Lying is a natural part of life (Driver 15). We try to teach our kids not to lie, but then we turn around… Continue Reading
When I read a lot of psychology or self-help books I see a lot about visualization, talking to ourselves, imagining how we want to be and actually seeing ourselves in the situation. For the longest time I too thought it was a lot of psycho-babble nonsense, but then the realization hit me. We all talk to ourselves, we… Continue Reading