Lesson No. 1:  Imagination is ALWAYS grander than reality.

You and I couldn’t see last week’s raid on Bin Laden’s cottage, so the photo you see here was all we had, a seed planted in each of us that we instantly germinated into a mental movie of what these officials ostensibly were watching.

The intensity of the room was palpable, this photo had an eerie energy to it that’s seldom seen in a still image, and it was generated solely by  (more…)

Okay, you know I’m not a big advocate of reading body language, right? 

So when I DO endorse a piece of body language?  You know I’m really sold on it.  My advice:  If (more…)

There’s power in knowing how to read body language signals. 

There’s power in knowing how to transmit signals with your own body language. 

So why wouldn’t there be power in transmitting messages physically into a person’s body? 

Translation:  There’s power in torture. 

Now, I never tortured anybody for information when I was a cop.  And you know what?  I missed out on a lot of confessions because of this. 

That’s right, a lot of thugs walked because I was too nice—only because I had to be, of course. 

Still, I did get confessions.  And since I couldn’t put bamboo shoots under their fingernails, or whip ‘em with a rubber hose like they did in the old days, I had to rely on psychological means (more…)

This one’s been going around so long I can’t tell you its origin, only that it’s total bunk.  It sounds intriguing, but if you’re after more than just intrigue, forget you ever heard of this.

Body Language is nothing more than body movement… that reveals something. 

A lot of self-appointed gurus will tell you that body language is the key to spotting a lie.  Sure, it sounds sexy, and it sells—but body language isn’t the end-all approach (or even the best one) for spotting deception, and it sure doesn’t make up 90% of the information a person communicates in conversation.

So where is the most revealing information found?  Not in the body language, but simply in (more…)