Review: Short, to the point, useful information on outing liars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2013
A few years ago I belonged to the Local Business Network in Michigan and a nationally recognized face reading expert was also a member. Through her I learned much of the basics of face reading. Then the hit TV show 'Lie to Me' came on and popularized the idea of discovering liars by their body & face language. Face reading is a great and mostly reliable way of outing liars, except for one problem. I'm not a visual person.There are a great many things that I am good or even excellent at. But my skills are very numbers oriented or expressed through the printed word. I have no fashion sense, sense of colors, or a musical ear, so reading body language, to me, is relatively difficult. The fleeting expressions a person can make are more likely to pass me by than a person more visually oriented. So for me, the whole body language phenomenon was largely useless. I simply didn't have the skill necessary to use them. Plus, it takes a lengthy period of time to learn body language, even if you do have an aptitude for it.This book IS NOT body language. It is entirely focused on the spoken and written words a person uses and the tell-tale signs that a person is lying. When a person lies they don't just betray themselves by body language, they out themselves by what they say too. This type of information is much more useful to me. I get words, both written and spoken, in a way that I will never get body language.The author gives numerous examples on how words betray a liar. Also provided are some strategies to box a liar in and force an answer that may also reveal their lies. The information provided is sufficient enough to get a high level of basic skill in detecting liars through their words, but it isn't so much to learn that you feel overwhelmed. If you're the type of person that is more comfortable with words, then this book is better for you to help in discovering the liars in you life.