跟讀練習: How To Read People Like Patrick Jane - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Patrick Jane can look at someone for five seconds and tell that they're lying, having an affair, hiding something, or about to completely lose their s*.
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And the weird part is, a lot of what he does isn't actually made up for the show.
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Jane isn't psychic.
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He's just ridiculously good at noticing what people accidentally reveal, and even better at tricking them into revealing more,
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because half the time, he doesn't actually know the answer.
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He says something, watches your reaction, lets you give him the missing information, and then somehow makes you feel like he knew it all along.
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And once you understand his tricks, you start noticing just how much information people give away without realizing it.
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So, I broke down the techniques Patrick Jane uses to read people, from figuring out when someone's lying,
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to getting people to tell you things without ever asking them a question.
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Cold reading.
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The first trick
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Jane uses is cold reading.
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But instead of explaining it, let me do it to you first.
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You're the kind of person who can be very social when you're comfortable.
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But you also need time completely alone.
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You've had people assume things about you that aren't actually true.
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And there's probably something you've been thinking about changing in your life for a while now, but you haven't fully committed to it yet.
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Sounds weirdly accurate, right?
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Except I know absolutely nothing about you.
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I gave you statements that sound personal while being broad enough to fit an insane number of people.
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And your brain did the rest.
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When I said people misunderstand you, you probably thought of a specific person.
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When I said there's something you want to change, you decided what that thing was.
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I never had to know.
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You filled in the blanks for me.
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And this is part of what makes Patrick Jane look almost psychic.
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He doesn't always walk up to someone already knowing their entire life story.
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Sometimes he'll throw out a statement that is specific enough to get a reaction, but flexible enough that he can adjust depending on what happens next.
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And there's one thing that makes this work significantly better.
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Certainty.
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Imagine I look at you and say, you, uh, seem like maybe you've been having problems with someone close to you.
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That sounds like I'm guessing.
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But if I look directly at you and say, you've been having problems with someone close to you.
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Now, your first thought probably isn't, How could she possibly know that?
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It's who is she talking about?
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Your brain starts searching your own life for evidence that makes my statement true.
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And the second you react, even slightly, I have more information than I had five seconds ago, Jane can then narrow it down.
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Someone you're romantically involved with.
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They disappointed you recently.
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And suddenly, it looks like he pulled an incredibly specific fact out of nowhere.
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But he didn't start with this specific fact.
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You let him there.
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And there's another version of this that is honestly even more useful
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because you can use it in completely normal conversations without pretending to be psychic.
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It's called elicitation.
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The basic idea is ridiculously simple.
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If you want information from someone, sometimes don't ask them a question.
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Say something slightly wrong instead, because people have an almost irresistible urge to correct you.
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Let's say you want to know how much someone working at Walmart makes.
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You could ask, how much do you make?
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Now they know exactly what information you want.
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Maybe that feels invasive, so they don't tell you.
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Instead, you say, I heard
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Walmart actually pays really well now, like $25 an hour.
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And they go, what?
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No, they don't.
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I make $15.
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You never asked.
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Or imagine someone tells you they went out last night and you want to know who they were with.
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Don't immediately ask, who did you go with?
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Try, went with your friends?
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And they might automatically respond, no, I went with my sister.
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Again, they corrected you.
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And people tend to love correcting things that are wrong.
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But deliberately getting something wrong becomes a lot more interesting
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when you think someone is lying
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because Jane can insert a completely false detail into somebody's story just to see what they do with it.
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Imagine someone tells you, I was near the mall around 8 last night.
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You respond, oh, so you probably saw that huge car accident outside.
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Apparently the road was completely blocked.
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There was no accident.
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You just made that up.
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Now watch what happens.
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Someone who genuinely remembers being there might look confused.
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What accident?
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I didn't see anything.
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But someone who is actively constructing a story has another problem.
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They don't know the accident is fake.
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Oh yeah, actually, I think I did see something happening over there.
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So you push a little further.
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Yeah, apparently there were police everywhere.
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And suddenly, yeah, that's probably what I saw.
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They're now giving you memories of an event that never happened.
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But Jane doesn't only listen to what people say.
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Sometimes the most interesting part is what happens before they even answer.
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And this is where people completely misunderstand body language.
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You've probably heard things like they crossed their arms.
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They're defensive.
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They looked away.
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They're lying.
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No. Because what if they always cross their arms?
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What if they hate eye contact?
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One gesture tells you almost nothing.
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What Jane pays attention to is change.
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Let's say I suspect you stole something from me.
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If I immediately walk up to you and say, did you steal my necklace?
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I'm already watching nervous body language, but that doesn't tell me much.
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You might just be nervous because some lunatic is accusing you of stealing a necklace.
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So instead, I talk to you normally first.
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How was your day?
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Where have you been?
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And while we're talking, I'm quietly learning what you look like when you're comfortable.
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Maybe you naturally make a lot of eye contact.
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Your hands move constantly when you talk.
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You're leaning back.
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Your voice is relaxed.
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That's your baseline.
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Then I casually mention, by the way, something weird happened.
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My necklace disappeared yesterday.
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And suddenly your hands stop moving.
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You sit up.
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Your answers become shorter.
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And now I'm interested.
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because I didn't decide that rubbing your hands means you're lying.
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I noticed that you changed when I mentioned the necklace, and you want to look for more than one change.
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This is where clusters come in.
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Crossing your arms by itself could mean absolutely nothing.
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But if the subject changes, and suddenly someone crosses their arms, starts self -soothing, their voice changes, and their previously expressive body becomes unusually still,
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now you have something worth paying attention to, and don't fall for the biggest cliche of all.
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Liars avoid eye contact.
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Some people do the exact opposite.
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If someone knows avoiding eye contact makes them look suspicious, they might stare directly at you because they're actively trying to look believable.
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So don't ask, are they making eye contact?
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Ask, is this how they were behaving 30 seconds ago?
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That's the real trick.
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But none of these tricks work particularly well if you're not actually paying attention.
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And this is probably Patrick Jane's biggest advantage over everyone around him.
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He notices everything.
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Imagine Jane meets a man for the first time.
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He looks at his hands and says, You recently stopped wearing your wedding ring.
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The guy immediately looks confused.
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How did you know that?
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It sounds psychic.
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Until you look at his hand, there's a pale strip of skin around his ring finger.
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Where the rest of his hand has been exposed to the sun, that's it.
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The information was sitting there the entire time.
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Everyone could see it.
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Jane was just the only person actually looking.
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And once you start doing this, you realize people are basically walking around carrying evidence of their lives all over them.
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Look at someone's hands.
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Maybe there's dirt underneath their fingernails.
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Maybe there are calluses in very specific places.
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Look at their clothes, their shoes.
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What's worn out?
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What do they keep checking?
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What do they immediately hide when somebody walks into the room?
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None of these details necessarily mean anything on their own.
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The interesting part is putting them together.
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Imagine someone walks into a coffee shop wearing an expensive suit.
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At first glance, you'd probably assume they have money.
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But then you notice the suit doesn't fit particularly well.
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Their shoes are much cheaper than everything else they're wearing.
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The tag on their briefcase is still attached and they keep adjusting their watch like they're not used to wearing it, suddenly there's another possibility.
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Maybe this isn't how they normally dress.
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Maybe they're trying to impress someone, job interview, first date.
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Now you don't know that yet, but you've noticed something worth investigating.
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Jane notices a detail, creates a hypothesis, and then looks for something else that either supports it or destroys it.
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And you can actually practice this.
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The next time you're sitting somewhere public, pick one person and give yourself 30 seconds.
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Just notice.
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What can you know for certain?
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What can you reasonably guess?
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And most importantly, what are you assuming with absolutely no evidence?
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Because those are three completely different things.
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Another exercise is watching a reality show with the sound completely off.
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Then turn the sound back on and see how catastrophically wrong you were.
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And you probably will be wrong sometimes.
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That's actually the useful part, because you're training yourself to separate.
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I noticed this. From.
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Therefore, this must mean that.
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Jane is ridiculously good at the first part, and that's why he can make deductions from things everybody else walked straight past.
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Because most of us think we're observing the world around us.
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We're not.
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We're filtering out almost all of it.
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Your brain decides what seems important and throws everything else into the background.
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But start deliberately looking at the things you normally ignore.
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The hands, the shoes, the objects, the tiny changes in behavior.
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And suddenly there's an entire layer of information that was always there.
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You just weren't looking at it.
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Play dumb.
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And the last trick might be my favorite because it goes against what almost everyone naturally wants to do.
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If you want to read people better, let them underestimate you.
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Most people spend an insane amount of energy trying to prove that they're smart.
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Jane does the opposite.
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He acts on serious.
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He asks questions he probably already knows the answer to.
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Sometimes he deliberately lets someone believe they're smarter than him.
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And that's useful because the moment somebody thinks they have you figured out, they stop worrying about whether you have them figured out.
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Think about it.
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If you knew you were sitting across from someone whose entire job was analyzing every word you said, you'd immediately become more careful.
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You'd think before answering, you'd watch your expressions, you'd reveal less.
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But if you think the person sitting across from you is slightly clueless, you relax.
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Maybe you explain something you didn't need to explain.
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Maybe you correct them.
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Maybe you say something you would have filtered if you thought they were actually paying attention.
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And suddenly, while you're busy thinking, God, this person is an idiot.
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They're learning everything about you.
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There's actually a perfect example of how powerful underestimation can be in the mentalist.
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Tommy Volker pretended to have an intellectual disability, and because everyone had already placed him into the category of someone harmless,
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someone who couldn't possibly be calculating what was happening around him, they stopped treating him like someone capable of deceiving them.
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And that assumption helped hide the fact that he was the killer.
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Obviously, I'm not suggesting you fake an intellectual disability to psychologically profile your friends, but the principle underneath it is useful.
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People reveal more when they don't feel like they're being observed.
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So sometimes, don't correct someone immediately.
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Let them explain.
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Ask the obvious question.
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Let them think they know more than you.
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And if someone completely misunderstands you, you don't always need to rush to prove them wrong.
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Watch what they do when they believe their assumption is true.
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Because sometimes being underestimated gives you something being impressive never will.
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Information.
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And when you put all of Jane's tricks together, you start realizing something.
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Patrick Jane isn't actually reading minds.
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He knows how to make people show him.
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And that's probably the biggest thing you can actually learn from him.
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Stop trying to magically decode every crossed arm, every look, every tiny movement.
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Get curious.
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Pay attention let people talk, and most importantly, stop focusing only on what people are deliberately trying to show you,
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because people are constantly telling you who they are.
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Most of the time, they're just assuming you aren't paying attention.
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本課的詞彙與口語要點
這節口語課以影片“How To Read People Like Patrick Jane”為素材。 這段影片共有 220 個句子、2145 個單詞可供跟讀。 講話部分時長為 10:44。 說話人語速較快，每分鐘約 200 個詞，會出現較多連讀和弱讀。 87% 的單詞屬於英語最常用的 3,000 詞，詞彙容易理解。
影片中的重點詞彙
影片中 15 個值得學習的單詞，附發音和釋義：
| 單詞 | 發音 | 釋義 |
|---|---|---|
| trick 名詞 | /ˈtɹɪk/ | 詭計 /詭計, 騙術 /騙術 |
| reveal 動詞 | /ɹɪˈviːl/ | 透露, 顯示 /顯示 |
| deliberately 副詞 | /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/ | 故意, 蓄意 |
| necklace 名詞 | /ˈnɛkləs/ | 項鏈 /項鍊 |
| psychic 名詞 | /ˈsaɪkɪk/ | 靈媒 /靈媒 |
| steal 動詞 | /stiːl/ | 偷, 盜 /盜 |
| shoe 名詞 | /ˈʃu/ | 鞋子, 鞋 |
| confused 形容詞 | /kənˈfjuːzd/ | 困惑 |
| insane 形容詞 | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | 精神失常, 精神錯亂 /精神錯亂 |
| intellectual 形容詞 | /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/ | 智力的, 思想的 |
| relax 動詞 | /ɹɪˈlæks/ | 鬆開 /鬆開, 放鬆 /放鬆 |
| filter 名詞 | /ˈfɪltɚ/ | 過濾器 /過濾器, 濾過器 /濾過器 |
| disability 名詞 | /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/ | 殘廢 /殘廢, 殘疾 /殘疾 |
| importantly 副詞 | /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/ | 重要的是... |
| adjust 動詞 | /əˈd͡ʒʌst/ | 調整 /調整 |
影片中出現的短語動詞
| 單詞 | 釋義 |
|---|---|
| figure out 動詞 | 弄清楚 |
| break down 動詞 | 壞了 /壞了, 出故障 |
| go out 動詞 | 出, 出口 |
值得反覆跟讀的句子
影片中簡短而完整的句子，可以直接用在日常對話裡：
- You could ask, how much do you make?
- Don't immediately ask, who did you go with?
- Try, went with your friends?
- How did you know that?
- What can you know for certain?
影片中的語法
說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：
| 結構 | 影片中的用法 |
|---|---|
| 現在完成進行時 have/has been + -ing — 以前開始、現在仍在繼續的動作 | you've been thinking · you've been having |
| 現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事 | You've had · You've probably heard · have you been |
| 被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的 | isn't actually made · has been exposed · is still attached |
| 定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物 | person who can · Someone who genuinely · someone who is |
需要注意的發音
說話人用了 74 次縮略和弱讀形式，例如 they're, don't, you're。請按聽到的簡短形式來說。
- “th” 音: underneath /ˌʌndɚˈniθ/, hypothesis /haɪˈpɒθɪsɪs/, soothe /suːð/
- “sh” 和 “zh” 音: shoe /ˈʃu/, assumption /əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/, rush /ɹʌʃ/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/, unusually /ʌnˈjuːʒuəli/
- 長單詞——注意重音位置: deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, intellectual /ˌɪntəˈlɛkt͡ʃʊəl/, disability /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/
中文母語者容易讀錯的音：
- /v/ — 不要讀成 /w/，上齒輕觸下唇: reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, actively /ˈæktɪvli/, observe /əbˈzɜːv/, impressive /ɪmˈpɹɛsɪv/, defensive /dɪˈfɛn.sɪv/
- 詞尾子音 — 要讀清楚，後面不要加母音: trick /ˈtɹɪk/, necklace /ˈnɛkləs/, psychic /ˈsaɪkɪk/, confused /kənˈfjuːzd/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/
- /r/ 和 /l/ 的區別: reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/, ridiculously /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs.li/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/
如何用這段影片練習
- 先完整聽一遍影片，不要開口，記下不認識的單詞。
- 先用 0.75 倍速逐句跟讀，熟練之後再回到正常速度。
- 錄下自己的聲音並與原聲對比，特別注意 trick, reveal, deliberately 這類單詞。
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