Here is a slightly unnerving truth about all of us: we are far easier to read than we think. Our emotions are governed by the limbic brain, and that part of us is wired directly to our non-verbal communication. Changes in the voice, our gestures, our body language, our facial expressions, the little shifts in how we stand and where we place ourselves. All of it is being quietly broadcast, whether we like it or not.
That is why it is remarkably easy to see what a person is really thinking, not by listening to what they say, but by watching what they do. Because the words, you see, come from the neocortex, the grooved sponge on top, and that is a part of the brain you have a great deal more control over. So yes, you can lie with your words. But very few people, extremely few, can control their limbic brain, and some of its leaks cannot be controlled at all.
Once you know this, you start to notice it everywhere. Here is a clip of a president and a minister discovering, rather sourly, exactly how true it is.
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