Shadowing Practice: Do YOU Believe These Body Language Tropes? - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Well, hey there, idiots.
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Welcome back to Observe, and in today's video, I decided to take a step back from everything that's really heavy and weighty and exhausting to do, like true crime and events going on around the world,
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and focus some more on a video that many of you have requested repeatedly in the past,
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and that's that I take a look at various instances of body language reading throughout TV and media, talk about how realistic they are, what they miss, what they get right, things like that.
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That's all that I want to say about this before we roll this intro here, yeah?
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Now it is well known that the media, TV, movies, they amplify, exaggerate,
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oversaturate things to make things seem more of a specific way, more interesting, more engaging, flow better,
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and that is definitely still the case when it comes to nonverbal communication analysis of style interactions in the media.
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So throughout this, we're going to visit a number of different clips from TV
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and movies to be able to establish kind of what we're working with when it comes to media.
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Now, nonverbal communication is still fairly new in the realm of sciences.
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So there's not nearly as much to be able to look at when it comes to representation in TV and movies.
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But I've collected some of them here.
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I have watched all of these different movies and TVs all the way through myself and am a big fan of each, so you will probably see that kind of come out here.
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I am appreciative of the representation, although it is at times a little exaggerated.
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Regardless, we're going to go ahead and dive into this first clip, which is from Lie to Me, and it's actually some of the first scenes of the show that you will see if you watch the show,
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which if you're interested in this channel and the stuff that I cover here, definitely go and watch any of these series that I'm talking about
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because it plays off of a little bit of what we talk about here, again, albeit a little bit more dramatized and entertaining.
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Hope that makes sense.
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Let's go ahead and just start watching these clips and breaking them down.
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I've instructed my client to remain silent.
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So this initial little clip that it does here where he's leaning forward and he's watching, this seems to me to be insinuating the development
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and gathering of a baseline to be able to understand how this person behaves in general without there being pressure
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or anything that might be implicative of them, that would cause spikes in their nonverbal communication.
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That being said, this is such a very short, very brief interaction that they're having here that it wouldn't establish a very reliable baseline.
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So at this point, the main character here, his name's Cal Lightman, he would be relying on the generalities of nonverbal communication in order to be able to establish whether
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or not the convict is speaking truthfully.
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So you kind of see him scanning around on the body there, and that is, again, that's a normal part of the analysis process.
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However, this portion, usually, if you're doing a genuine interrogation, it takes much more time and more interaction than just this little clip.
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So we're already seeing some of these comparisons that can exist in real life, but we haven't even gotten to the analysis portion of things.
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Our statistically speaking average person tells three lies per 10 minutes of conversation.
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And granted, it's just regular people.
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We haven't studied any people who are planning to firebomb a black church.
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could ski differently.
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That statistic, I haven't been able to actually track that down or verify that as reliable.
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Now, where that does start to get muddy is where you qualify a lie.
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It's not as black and white as what you would like it to be.
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It has a lot of variance between it.
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Some people will refer to the even concept of manners and etiquette as, on some level, lying.
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You're presenting something that's not totally genuine
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or authentic to yourself as a human being another example would be the innocent or helpful or beneficial lies.
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Say somebody gives you a gift for a birthday or any event or anything like that and you don't really like it, you're still going to say thank you,
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I appreciate this gift even though in reality that appreciation might not go all the way.
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A great book for this
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if you were wanting to be able to kind of unpack
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this a little bit more is Telling Lies by Paul Ekman
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and he actually consulted on this show to make sure
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that it did the most accurate it could while still being entertaining and in the Hollywood sphere of things again.
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But telling lies helps unpack that concept of what lying actually looks like,
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where those parameters can be found and how these sorts of numbers of that consistent of line can be
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can be drawn out.
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Now, in reality, in real life, the studies that were done were done on a large body of people, including students.
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But the way that they tracked the lying was, again, self -reporting of the lies.
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They had to report, oh, I lied XYZ a number of times.
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And that can become hazy because of the morality and some of the cultural consequences around lying.
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Chances are people that did report lies were probably lying in those scenarios as well
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because they felt uncomfortable if they've lied a lot it gets really muddy
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so just just commenting on that if you want to try to take
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and run with
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that statistic i don't suggest it it's not actually backed up
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by in real life science although it is touted on the show not totally accurate
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but now we're about to get into stuff we don't have
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time for this scientist to talk to the guy we went at him for four hours
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and got nothing now the fbi knows you want mass casualties
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so right now atf is searching every inch of the two largest black churches in the state.
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FBI got it wrong.
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So what Cal's doing in this situation is something that's actually a mentalist technique called phishing.
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You put out a statement and you wait for some form of feedback with it
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that can guide you further in the future.
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Now this is undressed so much so
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that it's it's showing he's asking a question
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and waiting for the non -verbal feedback from that in order to redirect from there.
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But if you were in a mentalist show or if you were going to a fake psychic, they would dress that up dramatically and make it something to either sound supernatural
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or to sound something that's far beyond the level that it actually is in complexity.
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And so he puts out this statement of a specific area, a specific building that they're looking for, and he's reading to see if there's going to be any reaction from the person that he's analyzing at the time.
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He does a flash of a smile in there
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which is also lightly lopsided which they don't talk about in the show
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but with this resolution it's pretty difficult to say
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and it's also pretty difficult to get these clips onto the internet
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if you're watching this the chances are this video is completely completely demonetized
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because it's from different studios and whatnot so
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if you would like to support me in making more content like this go ahead
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and consider becoming a member to the channel
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or heading over to patreon i will be hopefully this year
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putting out more content in both of those areas to help justify a little bit of that extra donation, but right now, it just kind of makes it to where I can make claimed videos a little bit more possible for you.
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Don't click away and do those things quite yet.
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Stay here.
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Do that later.
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Well, there's a shocker.
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Not one of those two churches.
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Maybe you want one of the smaller churches, one of the black suburbs.
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You know what you're talking about.
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Don't respond.
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What do you say ATF starts with Southbridge?
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nah I'm only kidding we're gonna skip that one you're gonna focus on Lawton you feel good about
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that's it Lawton that accusation has no basis what do you mean you just told me
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all right so that's the analysis portion of things
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and now the second part is he's going to break it
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down like I'm about to break it down for you as well
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when he starts mentioning the different places when the convict says, you don't know what you're talking about.
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Afterwards, after leaning forward and saying aggressively, you don't know what you're talking about, you see the little lopsided shrug come in there.
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That's going to be mentioned here.
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And that is a genuine nonverbal indicator of a lack of sincerity or confidence in an area.
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It's not universal.
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A lot of body language reading is not universal.
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It's based off of culture.
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It's based off of context and it's based off of the individual themselves.
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When speaking of micro -expressions and the representation of emotion across the face that's dealing with the seven universal emotions.
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Now, the seven universal emotions have been established across cultures across the globe that have not been exposed to media.
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And even in cases of people who were born completely blind, they still present these emotions in the same way,
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letting us know that this isn't something that they have visually taken in and adapted.
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It's something that we're born with.
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Ergo, the seven universal emotions.
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Body language is specific to the individual.
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Seven universal emotions are universal to everyone, albeit there are always exceptions, especially in the realm of various mental conditions,
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and sometimes neurodiversities can also affect that.
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Neurodiversities more heavily affect body language reading, the rest of the body, the kinesics of the body,
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whereas you can kind of rely on those seven universal emotions and with some outliers to go across the board regardless.
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So those are some of the things to be able to clear up with this.
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Now let's hear how Kyle Lightman breaks down what he's talking about and we'll talk about it as well.
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The ATF found a pipe bomb in a church basement in Lawton an hour later.
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DoD friend of mine said this guy's a total nut job.
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He spent like three years in the African jungle with some primitive tribes studying their eyebrows.
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That's a reference to Paul Ekman.
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He did go and travel to, again, these remote places to be able to study the movements
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of people's faces to help establish the existence of the universal emotions themselves.
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So that's a little reference to that.
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Cal Lightman, again, is largely based off of Paul Ekman, albeit with a lot more pizzazz and the dramatization that exists in Hollywood.
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But that is a reference to actual scientific fieldwork that has been done to help establish some of these things.
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What's his reaction to my statement?
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Right now, ATF is searching every inch of the two largest flag churches in the state.
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Now we just saw there was a brief expression of happiness on his face
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Which he was trying his best to conceal lasted for less
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than a fifth of a second as what we call a micro expression Now look at his mouth.
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The suspect is secretly happy about the locations We are searching
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which tells me we have the wrong location as I was mentioning with
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that that little smile
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That does flash across his face in a micro expression is also lightly lopsided
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that could push down that possibility of it being contempt.
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Now, contempt is an asymmetrical smile that reaches the face.
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It indicates a feeling of moral or intellectual superiority, but it does have activation on both sides of the mouth.
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So it is a brief smile, a micro -expression of happiness, of perhaps this level of I'm achieving some sort of knowledge over you,
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but that does, like I said, lead right into contempt, which also is represented there.
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Well done by the actor who's trying to present these micro -expressions, but it's also rarely so cleanly done.
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As you can see here, it's a lot of just stagnant movement and then a little teeny tiny move and then stagnant movement.
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That makes it easier for the general public to watch but in real life, people don't sit very, very stationary and then flash a little tiny expression and then sit very,
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very stationary most of the time.
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A lot of the time there's more movement, there's more context around so it's a little bit more difficult to decipher
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when a micro expression happens like that but it is still done
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and it is even more reliable if you establish a nonverbal baseline to go off of as well.
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Already, we're seeing a decent amount of science in this specific clip that we're working with, but it is still dressed up for Hollywood.
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Now I tell him of our new plan and...
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That's what you're talking about.
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Classic one -sided shrug.
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Translation, I have absolutely no confidence in what I just said.
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The body contradicts the words.
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He's lying.
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Yeah.
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When you accuse a suspect and he acts surprised, Is there a way to tell if it's real or if he's just trying to look innocent?
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Now that's real surprise lasts for less than a second
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when it comes across space But if your suspect is surprised for more than a second, he's faking it.
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That's loosely accurate It's not exactly accurate.
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It doesn't necessarily surprise doesn't necessarily last for that specific period of time especially if a stimulus continues to alter,
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what it is really reliably referring to are the emotional profiles of things.
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And I reference these regularly on the channel here.
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In commonality, emotions follow a profile, they have an onset and a fall off, and it usually lasts a specific duration.
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If it does stray from that, it can start wavering into this,
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might be play acted or hammed up or forced or altered lightly for the sake of whoever is being interacted with.
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If it's a camera, if it's an interviewer, if it's just an instance, that would be where you can start seeing those alterations come in.
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We're dealing with a facet of truth in nonverbal analysis, but again, the way he's referencing it and talking about it is making it much more black and white,
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clean cut, and very, very precise without the extra effort that goes into it.
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Decent, but, you know, a little off.
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He's lying.
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now i call out this target is actually lawton and watch it again concealed scorn
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one personal tip you see this micro expression in your spouse's
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face your marriage is coming to an end trust me that's not technically exclusively concealed scorn another thing
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that this this show does is it simplifies the representations of things in real human social interaction,
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the expressions that come across a person's face can be a simplistic one -only expression, but oftentimes they are mixed.
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So on the upper half of the convict's face in this area, you see the drawing together and lowering of the eyebrows.
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That's aggression, usually in the vein of anger, disgust, and scorn.
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You're also seeing the narrowing of the eyes.
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That narrowing of the eyes is commonly related to scorn when coupled with the lowering of the eyebrows that way.
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Now that also being said, it's not exclusive to scorn.
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For people, when they focus, they can also do this there are plenty of instances
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that can encourage the narrowing of the eyes
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and the lowering of the eyebrows including environmental ones
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if it's super bright out or
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if there's a sudden gust of wind it can cause your
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face to move in ways to kind of counteract those stimuli as well.
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So the show makes it much more simplistic, but it does technically exist.
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Now, on the bottom half of the face, I would not necessarily qualify that as scorn.
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I would qualify that as disgust.
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You can see it in the action in the corner of his nose.
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But combined, the scorn and disgust, it still conveys the same veins of emotion, but with a little bit of extra color to it, if that makes sense.
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So simplified, a little bit dramatized, sped up for the sake of consumability, but fairly accurate.
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Now we're going to get to the part where he talks about the universality of things, and you might recognize a reference that I have regularly in each of my videos
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that will come up here in a second.
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Don't these microexpressions vary depending on the person?
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Let's leave this up and we'll go to the Kato Kaelin footage from the OJ trial.
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Mr. Kaelin, you got a lot of money for your appearance on Current Affair, didn't you?
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Um, yeah.
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Scorn.
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Scorn.
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Huge scorn.
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shame shame and shame contempt these expressions are universal emotion looks the same whether you're a suburban housewife
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or a suicide bomber the truth is written on all our faces
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so at the very end there the the wall of faces is the inspiration for the wall of faces
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that I have had behind me for years many people ask
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about the wall of faces why I chose the people
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that I did
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and it It wasn't too much thought outside of I wanted to pick prominent people throughout history displaying emotions
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and they have different backgrounds, they have different ethnicities, they have different upbringings, they have different wealth levels,
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everything to be able to show kind of that everybody displays emotion.
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And so people, they regularly try to read way too much into what my background is.
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And realistically speaking, it's just showing that everybody shows universal emotions
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and they can be relied upon very regularly and again, very universally.
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That's the first little clip that we're dealing with here, dealing with Lyatomy and Cal Lightman.
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This is the most scientifically accurate, I would feel, out of all of the clips that we'll deal with today.
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The rest of them are going to deal with some other facets of nonverbal reading
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that is very common and that's in mentalism.
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We'll talk about the different mentalism techniques as we go through as mentalism was a huge hobby of mine growing up.
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It added an extra showmanship and flair and stage presence and whatnot to just clean cut nonverbal communication reading.
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It might even be something
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that I bring back onto the channel of some of the mentalism techniques
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that you can use in your day -to -day life just for fun with your friends
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or at parties and things like that.
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But this next clip is going to be from Now You See Me.
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Let's go ahead and watch the mentalism act and talk about it as we go.
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look into my eyes and sleep
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and just hang out there wriggle a sec I'm picturing okay
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I know we've only watched a couple seconds I am not a person who knows how to hypnotize people
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if you would like to be able to watch a nonverbal analyst here on YouTube
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that does know how to do this style of mentalism go
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and watch the behavioral arts over there with Spidey he is a fantastic mentalist even before I met
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and interacted with him in the nonverbal analysis spheres.
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I had watched some videos of his talking about mentalism techniques.
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He's a fantastic content creator.
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Go and watch his stuff.
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I cannot suggest it enough.
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And he will be able to add some clarity to things like hypnotism, how that works and how that can work in a stage play setting.
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But now we're going to get to the actual portion of things
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that we're working with here where we're going to do a nonverbal analysis, albeit again with a little bit of flair, not only just the Hollywood flair for the movies,
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but flair done by the person himself to make it seem more astounding.
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Let's watch.
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Beach.
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Cocktails.
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Florida?
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Look, it was a business trip, maybe the oldest business.
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You're thinking of a woman's name.
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A, B, C.
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Starting off with this, I'm thinking of a beach, Florida.
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There can be a number of things that can help push you in a specific direction when interacting with somebody.
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And this has to do with the generalities of social behaviors in general.
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So he pulls out Florida that would fit better with the age demographic that he's working with.
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And we see a little flash of surprise when he brings up drinks.
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And drinks would go hand in hand with a vacation to a beach.
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A lot of people of that age, if they go to a vacation with the beach, unless there's some sort of other external thing that makes them not want to drink, there will likely be some drinks in there.
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And so you're working with these generalities, waiting for feedback from him.
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Now we're gonna start digging into something a little bit differently here
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and he's going to start doing a mentalism technique where you you list a thing
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and could be numbers and in this case it's letters
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and waiting for non -verbal feedback to be able to confirm
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or deny whether or not that was an accurate tell so let's watch C.
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D. E.
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F. G.
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H. I J.
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Jean.
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Jane.
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Janet.
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Who's Janet?
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Your sister.
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You weren't away.
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All right.
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So through that, you see him rapid firing this.
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Now, the rapid firing can be very effective in overwhelming a person's ability to conceal various things, control their own nonverbal communication.
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So as he's going down, you can kind of see a little bit of movement around G, but then he gets to J and you see a substantial movement in the eyebrows there, the lowering, drawing together the eyebrows,
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that nonverbal feedback, that's a spike in his nonverbal communication.
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Technically, that's in the vein of aggression, scorn, anger, frustration, something along those lines.
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It can also be confusion.
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And so we're seeing that come in there.
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So he knows that it's a j, a j sound.
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And then he starts listing down the common names of j's.
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And eventually he sees that same brief expression come across the face, letting him know he's got a hook again.
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So this showmanship, this understanding of how to kind of orchestrate human behavior all lends to this,
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this flurry of what seems to be extraordinary or perhaps supernatural mind -ready style of techniques, but they're not.
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It's just relying on some nonverbal communication reading
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and some understandings of how people behave when presented with whatever stimulus they're working with.
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It's cool to watch.
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It is a little bit dramatized for the sake of, you know, again, consumable television, but it is something that's based very,
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very heavily in real -life mentalism techniques.
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If you would like to watch a real -life mentalist outside of Spidey, go and watch Spidey stuff.
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Some other good names to be able to go and watch would be top of the line is Darren Brown.
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He is one of my and my biggest inspirations.
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He's even on the wall behind me.
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We'll even get to some shots from the show The Mentalist later on
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and the show The Mentalist was based on Darren Brown.
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Another person that I have enjoyed in the mentalism sphere is Lior Suchard.
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He has a little bit more dramatization in his mentalism
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that he touts more of the supernatural side of things which he doesn't have.
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No mentalist does but the way
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that he does it does push a little bit further into
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that so it's a little different flavor but go and watch mentalists
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if you're at all interested in this sort of thing weren't
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away on business you are away on janet okay now she's
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gonna get upset let's move over here you want this to go away
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yes okay pull out your wallet so 200's unfair okay
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and sleep now when i snap my fingers you won't remember any of this.
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And you, every time you see or even think of Janet, you're going to picture me naked.
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And that's not a pretty sight.
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Yeah.
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All right.
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So again, that flash hypnosis like that.
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Darren Brown knows how to do it very well.
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Again, I've seen Spidey do it as well.
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Go and check out the different channels to be able to see how that's done a little bit better.
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I still have not figured that one out.
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The Mendelism community is hard to break into.
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So everything that I have done, I have just learned from my own experience or have developed myself. So
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if you would like to be able to understand a little
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bit more about those with people with a little bit more experience, check that out.
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But it is effective in ways like this, not necessarily to the degree that it's showing there,
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but a pretty fun example in movies about how mentalism
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and nonverbal communication reading can be used in your day -to -day life.
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He uses it for kind of like a blackmail situation, but you can use it for much less nefarious means than that.
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It can be a very fun party trick, especially if you have any props to go along with it to add some magic into it as well.
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You can really work some stuff up pretty quickly as long as you're diligent with your study and with your practice.
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But now we're about to move on to a next clip here, which is going to go on for a bit, and I am all but a thousand percent positive is going to be claimed.
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It's from the BBC Sherlock show, and it's dealing with another aspect of non -verbal -ish communication,
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but a field of mentalism that is regularly called deductionism.
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We'll talk about that in a second.
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Well, a bit different from my day.
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You have no idea.
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Mike, can I borrow your phone?
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There's no signal on mine.
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What's wrong with the landline?
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I prefer to text.
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Sorry.
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It's in my car.
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Uh, here.
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Here's mine.
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Oh, thank you.
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It's an old friend of mine, John Watson.
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Afghanistan or Iraq?
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Sorry?
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Which was it, Afghanistan or Iraq?
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Afghanistan, sorry, how did you...
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Ah, Molly, coffee, thank you.
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What happened to the lipstick?
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it wasn't working for me really i thought it was a big improvement math's too small now okay
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how do you feel about the violin obviously we're not dealing with non -verbal body language communications
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but we are dealing with observation and extracting information guesses realistically from
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that information now in sherlock it's called a deduction
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but it really isn't when you go into like a logic class and look at how that is specifically designated.
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This is not deduction.
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You're drawing inferences rather than cold hard.
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This is the only thing that can happen.
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And in the shows and in the books, it says once you have eliminated all of the impossibilities, whatever is left has to be the truth by process of elimination.
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So kind of, but that's not really what's happening here.
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But growing up, I really appreciated many aspects of it, especially being diagnosed now later with ADHD.
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Seeing the world and the way that Sherlock presented it made much more sense to me.
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It was, you see a thing, you were able to kind of conclude a very specific thing.
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It boxed things up very nicely, put things into packaging that made it consumable for me.
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But as you continue to grow older and get more experience, a lot of that, it highlights that there's not so much black and white, there's a lot of gray.
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So when he comes up here and he's already talking about the Afghanistan or Iraq side of things, it's pulling in, like I said these elements of a mentalism style called deductionism.
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We'll actually talk about all of those
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when we get to the second half where he explains it himself and highlight some of the issues around it, some of the strengths of it,
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and how it actually had shaped and changed how I perceive the world in general as well.
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Let's watch.
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Sorry, what?
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I play the violin when I'm thinking.
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Sometimes I don't talk for days on, and would that bother you?
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Potential flatmates should know the worst about each other.
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You told him about me?
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None of a word.
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Then who said anything about flatmates?
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I did.
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Told Mike this morning that I must be a difficult man to find a flatmate for.
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And now here he is, just after lunch with an old friend, clearly just home for military service in Afghanistan.
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Wasn't that a difficult leap?
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How did you know about Afghanistan?
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Got my eye on a nice little place in central London.
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Together we ought to be able to afford it.
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We'll meet there tomorrow evening, 7 o 'clock.
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Sorry, I've got to dash.
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I think I left my riding crop in the mortuary. Is that it? Is that what?
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We've only just met, and we're gonna go look at a flat.
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Problem?
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We don't know a thing about each other.
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I don't know where we're meeting.
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I don't even know your name.
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I know you're an army doctor, and you've been admitted home from Afghanistan.
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I know you've got a brother who's worried about you, but you won't go to him for help because you don't approve of him.
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Possibly because he's an alcoholic.
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More likely because he recently walked out on his wife.
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And I know that your therapist thinks you're limp psychosomatic quite correctly, I'm afraid.
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It's enough to be going on with, don't you think?
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The name's Sherlock Holmes and the address is 221B Baker Street.
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Impressive, right?
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It seems very impressive.
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Again, it's a fantastic party trick as mentalism can be.
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Now we're going to break, he's going to break it down and we'll break down what he's breaking down, talk about kind of the shortcomings, the parts where this was obviously made for Hollywood.
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Yeah, well, yeah, let's watch.
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When I met you for the first time yesterday, I said Afghanistan or Iraq.
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You looked surprised.
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How did you know?
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I didn't know.
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I saw.
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The haircut, the way you hold yourself, says military.
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And your conversation is you entered the room.
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A bit different from my day.
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Said trained at Bath, so army doctor, obvious.
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Your face is tanned, but no tan above the wrists.
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Starting off initially, the haircut.
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Haircuts can be a decent indicator, but you're working with a probability not an exact science with it, and that's where it falls apart.
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He says, your haircut said military.
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His haircut said that he liked his hair short.
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That little extrapolation there, it could quickly fall apart.
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You have to either one, be much more confident before you draw and present a tell that way, or two, you have to be comfortable with the idea of failing
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or getting something wrong and being able to re -steer it from there.
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So he says military because of the haircut, not necessarily.
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We're talking also about tan lines now.
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No tan above the wrists.
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You've been abroad, but not sunbathing.
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So he's saying he sees the tan lines, but they're down here.
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His hands are tan.
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So he wasn't out sunbathing, wearing a long -sleeved shirt.
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So that kind of backs up this military side of things in the sun.
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Possibly.
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Another really large probability is
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that it's just a short -haired person with long -sleeved tan lines because he likes to wear long sleeves, and it has nothing to do with military again.
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It's still a guess.
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It's an educated guess and it's a guess with a lot of flair, but it is still just a guess.
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Now we're talking about the limp side of things.
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Your limp's really bad when you walk.
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You don't ask for a chairman.
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You stand like you've forgotten about it.
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So he's partly psychosomatic.
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That says the original circumstances of the injury were traumatic, wounded in action then.
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Wounded in action, Santan, Afghanistan, or Iraq.
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Some of these are nonverbal where he's saying you limp while you're moving, but when you're standing still, you seem to kind of fade away from that needing for a limp.
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You also don't ask for a chair.
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If your leg was legitimately hurting that way, then, you know, you would ask for a chair.
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Maybe.
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Possibly.
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That does make some sense.
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And then it gets around to the portion where he's saying that it's psychosomatic.
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It fades in and out like that.
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So it's likely a traumatic injury, aka war.
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Okay, but that's not the only time that you can get a psychosomatic injury.
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Sure, trauma can inspire it, but trauma doesn't exclusively come from a war.
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There are enough other possibilities that it's not an exact science.
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You have to be able to lean into the theatrics of things to be able to sell this a lot more reasonably.
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Now we're about to start breaking down another portion of this, highlighting some of these issues.
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You said I had a therapist.
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You've got a psychosomatic limp, of course you've got a therapist.
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then there's your brother the phone was expensive email enabled mp3
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player are you looking for a flat share you wouldn't waste
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money on this it's a gift then scratch is not one
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many over time it's been in the same pocket as keys
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and coins massively next people wouldn't treat as one luxury item like this
462
so it's had a previous owner next bit's easy you know
463
it already the engraving harry watson clearly family member who's given
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you his old phone not your father this is a young man's gadget could be a cousin
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but you're a war hero who can't find a place to
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live unlikely you've got an extended family certainly not one you're close to
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so brother it is now clara who's clara three kisses says
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there's a romantic attachment expense the phone says wife not girlfriend
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she's also given it to him recently this model's only six
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months old marriage in trouble then six months only's just giving it away
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if she left him he would have kept it people do
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sentiment no he wanted rid of it he left her he gave the phone to you
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that says he wants you to stay in touch you're looking for cheap accommodation
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and you're not going to your brother for help it says
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you've problems with him maybe you liked his wife maybe you
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don't like his drinking how can you possibly know about the
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drinking shot in the dark good one though power connection table
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scuff marks around the edge of it every night goes to plug it into charge
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but his hands are shaking you never see those marks on
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the sober man's phone never see a drunks without them there
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you go see you were right i was right right about what the police don't consult amateurs
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so many issues with that last little spiel again working on generalities looking at
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that like this is a young man's phone no
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that the phones have no limitations everybody uses every single thing the scratches everything like
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that that does make some sense you could kind of pull some of
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that information out of there it also is the possibility
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that like John doesn't take care of his phones very well engraving side of things it also turns out
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that the the Harry Watson is is John's sister not brother and Sherlock says, you know, there's always something wrong with it, which also pushes you down that mindset of it's not,
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it's not an exact science.
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It's not deduction.
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It's just, it's inferences.
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I love the line with the shot in the dark with the drinking and saying like, oh, you never see a sober man's phone with scratches around the port,
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but you always see it around a drunks.
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And that's simply not the case.
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It ended up being correct for the show.
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It's not necessarily how that works in real life again with enough flair, enough showmanship, and a few other techniques to be able to help kind of solidify some of these guesses,
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it can become something that seems extraordinary and very cool to look at.
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If you'd like to be able to watch a deductionist actually function, go and watch Ben Cardle.
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He is a UK deductionist.
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He has kind of made a career out of showcasing Sherlock style inferences in a very entertaining way.
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I'll link all of these people in the description of this video so you can go watch all of them.
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He is quite cool to watch and he brings a lot of realism to his interactions, to his mentalism shows.
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He also wrote a book called Monographs.
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It helps you with a little bit of that understanding of how to work with these generalities.
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So if you would like to go and check him out, I do suggest going and doing that.
506
Now we're about to get into the show that was perhaps the most inspirational for me growing up, especially in setting up this channel and it is the mentalist with Patrick Jane.
507
There are a couple different clips that we're going to be working through here.
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We'll break down what we see, talk about the techniques, and then we'll wrap up the video.
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I'm not going to let you guys come in and mess up our investigation until that person has been identified and arrested.
510
Do you got me?
511
Fine. Where is he going?
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Can I have your attention, please?
513
Thank you.
514
There are these things called micro expressions.
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They are what shows on your face when you feel something.
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They're automatic.
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You can't control them.
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So when I tell you that Jeremy Geist was an FBI agent working undercover, everyone, yes, there they are,
519
showed a brief expression of surprise.
520
What the hell?
521
His was bigger than most.
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But when I tell you that Jeremy Geist was investigating a...
523
So with that, unfortunately, the camera does not show the micro expressions of surprise that come across Peebles' faces in that time.
524
It's focusing on Patrick himself.
525
But what he's talking about with it, I mean, yeah, that's micro expressions they only come on for a very small fraction of a second, fade off pretty quickly.
526
They are a reliable indicator of your subconscious emotional state.
527
So now let's go ahead and continue this part.
528
Investigating a gang selling illegal firearms out of this bar, only one person will show fear.
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The person who is afraid of being caught.
530
And that person is...
531
it's you tish what it's literally on your face there is your salesman the ex expression of fear across her face.
532
The things that I was able to see her eyebrows are lightly turned upwards on the inside
533
and her eyes are fairly open.
534
That's the most that I can get to as far as fear represented across her face.
535
And I think the show is probably trying to imply that she showed that a little bit more prevalently at another time.
536
But those are the two indicators there.
537
And they stand out from the rest of the group.
538
The rest of the group kind of has this expression of confusion focus, she has that ever so slight tinge of fear.
539
And so with that, that would be enough as a mentalist, a person who is into the showmanship side of things and likes to kind of ham up that drama a bit,
540
that is enough for them to be able to start behaving more confidently towards that.
541
Some things that he did do within that to help inspire this was, again, the shock factor that we even saw from Now You See Me of intensifying certain aspects of things.
542
He gave away a certain crucial piece of information that was surprising to everybody, including the agent, and this disrupts their psychological mindset at that time.
543
Now they're focusing on these different aspects rather than trying to focus on controlling their own body and how they present, and then Patrick continues on with the rest of his stuff, and he's again fishing.
544
He's throwing out information and watching for people who bite, and she's the only one who bit on that instance.
545
That's a very dramatized version of a non -verbal read.
546
It's very quick, very short.
547
He didn't do any baseline establishing.
548
So a lot of this is working off a probability, not actual exact science.
549
It's very fun, but it is an art.
550
It's not a science.
551
And so now we're about to get to a second deal here, and then we'll wrap up.
552
I got nothing to say.
553
Why were you going to murder him?
554
What about the tattoo?
555
What's it mean?
556
You're not a big talker.
557
I got it.
558
Lose lips and chips and all that.
559
The bad news is you have a lousy poker face.
560
So we're going to play a little game of show and tell.
561
I'm going to tell you something and you're going to show me with your face whether I'm right or not.
562
That sound fun?
563
You ever steal anything?
564
Did you ever cheat on your girlfriend?
565
Hit her?
566
You like causing pain?
567
I never had a woman in my life.
568
You belong to a secret organization of cops and other government officials.
569
Yes.
570
He's set the premise.
571
He's setting the stage, and this is also psychologically priming the person
572
that he's talking to to be a little bit less in control of what they're doing.
573
He's throwing out some red herrings.
574
He's throwing out some other details.
575
He's gathering information as he does it.
576
So he starts in, man's all closed up and ready to go, and as he starts the questioning,
577
he settles into, he's reposturing into his new position that initial shift is because the role of the conversation has changed.
578
This happens all the time everywhere.
579
You'll see reposturing happen from everyone.
580
And it can sometimes be explained a way of like, oh, maybe they're just uncomfortable.
581
They've been sitting in the same position for a while and they want to move around.
582
Sometimes if you watch, you can almost guaranteed tell when there is a role switch or a tone switch in a conversation,
583
even when a scene is muted due to this reposturing.
584
A person will reposture if the tone of the conversation changes.
585
They will reposture, especially if they're going to switch from the role of listening to the role of speaking.
586
That will be another area of reposturing.
587
You can even see reposturing as people are introduced into various scenarios.
588
Like say you're interacting with somebody and then somebody comes into the room and you see the other person reposture.
589
Pay attention to reposturing.
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It is indicative of a change of role in the social interaction that's happening there.
591
When Patrick is talking about, hmm, what about this and this and this and this?
592
You know, did you ever do this?
593
Do you appreciate pain?
594
Did you ever hit your girlfriend?
595
He's watching to see how the guy reacts.
596
And so during that time, there's not a lot of nonverbal movement that would push in any direction.
597
This is just gathering some information.
598
However, it gets to the point of he locks in and he leans forward a little bit and he's, I never hit a woman, that sort of thing.
599
It's delivered confidently.
600
There's no stutters or stammers.
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We're not seeing any micro expressions of anything else come across the face
602
if you saw something perhaps like a bit of disgust
603
or a contempt smile come in there you would want to continue picking at
604
that but none of
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that really happened it's just confident delivery then he asked this thing are you a part of the secret organization
606
and a spike happens in his nonverbal communication he looks away
607
he has a little bit of a contempt smile he has a prolonged eye blink in there as well
608
that eye blocking gesture so coupled with those other things that's a spike in his nonverbal communication
609
that would push towards oh that's a hit something happened there
610
and he's not feeling good about it and judging by the tells that he's delivered with it, it means that that's an accurate statement.
611
So that would be how that quick flash nonverbal communication read can happen.
612
A little bit of that baseline gathering with the other questions.
613
Let's continue.
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Yes.
615
You've committed crimes on behalf of that organization before.
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Right.
617
Agent Smith is a member also.
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Right.
619
The organization sent you to the doctor's office to kill him.
620
Right.
621
CPI Director Gail Bertram is also a member.
622
You don't know.
623
Too low on the totem pole, huh?
624
Agent Reed Smith is Red John.
625
Don't know.
626
Gail Bertram's Red John.
627
Don't know.
628
This is so, this is so fun to watch.
629
As he's going through, I believe the tell that Patrick is picking up on mostly is the eye direction as he's asking.
630
Now, I do not use directional IQs.
631
They cannot be established universally.
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They can be used on an individual basis, especially if you establish a baseline.
633
Which, for those of you that do not know, directional IQs is the concept of you look in a specific direction in your field of view to tell
634
if you're remembering a real, actual memory, be it auditory, visual, sensory, or if it's a fabricated side of things or if it's an internal monologue that can exist.
635
And on some levels, there are some generalities that encourage that.
636
It is not universal, though.
637
It can change from individual to individual.
638
So he's not using that from what I can tell either.
639
But every time that he says something that is true, you see a diversion of gaze.
640
This would be an individual situation as well, though.
641
That's not a universal emotion thing.
642
Just because somebody breaks eye contact when you say something, that does not mean that they're lying or trying to hide or cover up something.
643
That would be just this individual case.
644
You have to establish it individually before you rely on it in this sort of scenario.
645
Then the portions where he comes around to the you don't knows, you see the narrowing of the eyes.
646
Now, that narrowing of the eyes, it's focused and it can be related again to the universal emotion of scorn or frustration.
647
That could be confusion when that comes in there.
648
If that, oh, I'm not, I'm not sure, not sure on that kind of thing.
649
So maybe that's what he's pulling from that.
650
That happens repeatedly.
651
And even on the last one where you could tell the guy's trying to like look away
652
and not not be read to filth like he's being even
653
still he does a little narrowing of the eyes before he looks away
654
and so again
655
that indicator of i'm not really sure how to handle this
656
i don't actually know this information let's wrap this up a
657
tattoo on your shoulder is the membership sign i don't know what you're talking about right again
658
there's a password to something you say as a greeting or a distress signal tiger tiger
659
get out of my head and there we are
660
so again you saw those last two hits
661
that patrick got the lookaways i think that's the tale
662
that we're being told as the audience to rely on for him
663
and so that's it those are some of the non -verbal communication reading examples
664
that i have throughout tv and media
665
that i have at least come across myself
666
if you have other ones this is where you can kind of come in here.
667
If you have other ones, I am turning on the community aspect of my page here.
668
Go ahead and head over there.
669
If you have other clips that you know
670
that I should take a look at
671
or would like me to take a look at in movies
672
and TV that show nonverbal communication or even just ones that you would like me to look at in general, it doesn't have to be for this series.
673
It's going to be for everything.
674
Head over to the community tab and let me know there and I will hopefully be able to keep up on that.
675
Yeah, I stay pretty busy so I don't know that I I will always monitor it, but at least there is a chance of me being able to come across it there.
676
I'm also considering opening up a subreddit.
677
If that's something that you would be interested in, let me know in the comments of this video.
678
Again, this video is almost certainly claimed by however many studios, so if you would like to make more videos like this possible, memberships, Patreon, all of it helps.
679
Consider those if you can.
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If you cannot, I very much understand.
681
And if you've just watched this video, thank you.
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If you would like more, go ahead and subscribe, do all those things.
683
But, but without further ado, that's all that I've got for the day.
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My name is Logan, and you have been oh so awesome as you always are, and I will see you in the next video.
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Cheers, guys.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 685 sentences and 8341 words to shadow. The speech runs for 43:51. The speaker talks fast, about 190 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| emotion noun | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data. |
| universal adjective | /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/ | Of or pertaining to the universe. |
| clip noun | /klɪp/ | Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another. |
| microwave noun | /ˈmaɪkɹoʊˌweɪv/ | An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves. |
| establish verb | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/ | To make stable or firm; to confirm. |
| necessarily adverb | /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/ | Inevitably; of necessity. |
| flash verb | /flæʃ/ | To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. |
| interaction noun | /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/ | The situation or occurrence in which two or more things act upon one another to produce an effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence. |
| verbal adjective | /ˈvɜː.bəl/ | Of or relating to words. |
| contempt noun | /kənˈtɛmpt/ | The state or act of contemning; the feeling or attitude of regarding someone or something as inferior, base, or worthless; scorn, disdain. |
| baseline noun | /ˈbeɪslaɪn/ | A line that is a base for measurement or for construction. |
| flair noun | /flɛɚ̯/ | A natural or innate talent or aptitude. |
| feedback noun | /ˈfiːdˌbæk/ | Critical assessment of a process or activity or of their results. |
| rely verb | /ɹɪˈlaɪ/ | To trust; to have confidence in; to depend. |
| haircut noun | /ˈhɛə(ɹ)kʌt/ | The act of cutting of the hair, often done professionally by a barber, hair stylist, or beautician. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come across verb | To change sides; to cross over to work for the opposition. | |
| go ahead verb | /ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/ | To proceed with; to begin. |
| break down verb | To stop functioning. | |
| grow up verb | To mature and become an adult. | |
| throw out verb | /ˈθɹəʊ ˌaʊt/ | To discard; to dispense with something; to throw away. |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| draw together verb | To cause (someone) to seek emotional support from each other; to cause to pull together or come together. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if it's just an instance, that would be · if she left him he would have · If that's something that you would be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have requested · I've collected · have watched |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being said · can be found · can be drawn |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | clip, which is · people who are · people who were |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 182 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, we're, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: gather /ˈɡæðɚ/, therapist /ˈθɛɹəpɪst/, bother /ˈbɑðɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, flash /flæʃ/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: universal /ˌjunəˈvɜɹs(ə)l/, necessarily /ˌnɛs.əˈsɛɹ.ə.li/, interaction /ˌɪn.təˈɹæk.ʃən/, indicator /ˈɪn.dɪˌkeɪ.tə(ɹ)/, representation /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.ʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like emotion, universal, clip.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.