The Definitive Book of Body Language

Zusatztext "When Allan and Barbara Pease write! I read. And underline. And learn. And laugh. And steal. The Definitive Book of Body Language is a marvel of a book!"—Tom Peters! author of In Search of Excellence and Re-Imagine! Informationen zum Autor Allan Pease has written eleven other bestselling books on the subject of human communication and body language, including, with Barbara Pease, Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps and Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need New Shoes. Barbara Pease is CEO of Pease Training International and the author of the international bestseller Memory Language . She divides her time between England and Australia, trying to find her way home from the airport. Klappentext Available for the first time in the United States, this international bestseller reveals the secrets of nonverbal communication to give readers confidence and control in any face-to-face encounter--from making a great first impression and acing a job interview to finding the right partner. Chapter One Understanding the Basics Everyone knows someone who can walk into a room full of people and within minutes give an accurate description about the relationships between those people and what they are feeling. The ability to read a person´s attitudes and thoughts by their behavior was the original communication system used by humans before spoken language evolved. Before radio was invented, most communication was done in writing through books, letters, and newspapers, which meant that ugly politicians and poor speakers such as Abraham Lincoln could be successful if they persisted long enough and wrote good print copy. The radio era gave openings to people who had a good command of the spoken word, like Winston Churchill, who spoke wonderfully but may have struggled to achieve as much in today´s more visual era. Today´s politicians understand that politics is about image and appearance, and most high-profile politicians now have personal body-language consultants to help them come across as being sincere, caring, and honest, especially when they´re not. It seems almost incredible that, over the thousands of years of our evolution, body language has been actively studied on any scale only since the 1960´s and that most of the public has become aware of its existence only since our book Body Language was published in 1978. Yet most people believe that speech is still our main form of communication. Speech has been part of our communication repertoire only in recent times in evolutionary terms, and is mainly used to convey facts and data. Speech probably first developed between two million and five hundred thousand years ago, during which time our brain tripled its size. Before then, body language and sounds made in the throat were the main forms of conveying emotions and feelings, and that is still the case today. But because we focus on the words people speak, most of us are largely uninformed about body language, let alone its importance in our lives. Our spoken language, however, recognizes how important body language is to our communication. Here are just a few of the phrases we use: Get it off your chest. Keep a stiff upper lip. Stay at arm´s length. Keep your chin up. Shoulder a burden. Face up to it. Put your best foot forward. Kiss my butt. Some of these phrases are hard to swallow, but you´ve got to give us a big hand because there are some real eye-openers here. As a rule of thumb, we can keep them coming hand over fist until you either buckle at the knees or turn your back on the whole idea. Hopefully, you´ll be sufficiently touched by these phrases to lean toward the concept. In the Beginning . . . Silent-movie actors like Charlie Chaplin were the pioneers of body-language skills, as this was the only means of communi...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Allan Pease, Allan/ Pease Pease, Barbara Pease
• Verlag: External catalogues US
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.07.2006
• EAN: 9780553804720
• ISBN: 978-0-553-80472-0
• Abmessung: 158 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Themen: Ratgeber > Lebenshilfe, Alltag > Partnerschaft, Sexualität; Schule und Lernen