Suppose you’re in a strange town and don’t know how to get where you’re going.  If the guy at the gas station gives you bad directions, will you get where you want to be?

Maybe you will, but only if one of these two things happen:  1-You ask someone else, and they give you good directions, or 2-Through good fortune you just happen to stumble upon your destination.

Bad information equals bad results. 

Until we get good information, or figure out the real deal on our own, we tend to act on the bad information. 

The worst part?  It can take a while to figure out we’ve been chasing the wrong rabbit.

There’s an article out this week from US News & World Report that purports to give us the “3 Ways to Tell if Someone is Lying“.  It touches on a couple of valuable points, but ultimately just supports the common belief (myth) that reading body language is the key to spotting deception. 

You want the truth?  It’s actually hidden—sometimes not too deeply—in the words people speak.

If you haven’t already, take a look at the article (it’s brief) then come back here and I’ll give you (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…)