Tips on How to Read & Understand People

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In Read People Like a Book, Patrick King offers practical tools to understand and interpret others by observing their behavior, body language, and speech. This guide is broken into four parts. First, we explore the challenges of accurately reading people, such as biases, lack of context, or projecting our feelings onto others. Second, we delve into the driving forces behind behavior, including subconscious urges, the pleasure principle, the hierarchy of needs, and ego defense. Third, we learn to decode nonverbal cues—stress signals, mirroring, facial expressions, and spatial confidence—that reveal emotions beneath the surface. Finally, King outlines strategies to detect lies by observing inconsistencies, unnatural behavior, and subtle story flaws. By applying these insights, you can build stronger connections, resolve conflicts more effectively, and truly understand the people around you.