What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro
This book is yet another book on how to read body language that purports to teach you how to read people by reading their bodies. Like all of these books, I find it more of a refresher course on stuff I already know. Who doesn’t really know how to interpret body language? Unlike other books, it specifically tells you that this will not enable you to spot definite liars, that it’s more of a sense of “this person is uncomfortable” or “this person is confident” kind of ballpark. The text boxes that give examples are interesting.
If you’ve never read any books on body language, this is a pretty good one. Nothing special, but not terrible either. It will not enable you to speed read people, nor will it enable you to tell if people are lying. It probably won’t make you better at reading people, unless you practice, but it doesn’t teach you how to do that.
I guess I was looking for a book that would teach me how to learn to read people, but this isn’t it.
