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Comment lire dans les pensées - Décodez le langage non verbal et développez votre intelligence émotionnelle

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Le mode d'emploi pour détecter les mensonges et prédire les comportements. Avez-vous déjà rencontré quelqu'un qui lit en vous comme dans un livre ouvert ? Quelqu'un qui anticipe vos paroles et vos actions, parfois mieux que vous-même ? Ce talent n'a rien d'un superpouvoir, mais s'appuie sur une compréhension profonde de la psychologie humaine.

Grâce à ce livre, vous maîtriserez à votre tour l'art de lire dans les pensées. À l'aide de méthodes éprouvées, vous apprendrez à :
• interpréter les expressions faciales et le langage corporel ;
• repérer les incohérences entre le verbal et le non-verbal ;
• pratiquer l'observation active en posant les bonnes questions ;
• déterminer les motivations profondes de votre interlocuteur.

Fort de cette expertise, vous pourrez à la fois maîtriser vos propres signaux – et ainsi vous défendre des manipulateurs – et décoder ceux de votre entourage pour l'influencer en douceur.

Plus personne n'aura de secret pour vous !

185 pages, Paperback

First published December 7, 2020

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Patrick King

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Patrick King is a Social Interaction Specialist, in other words, a dating, online dating, image, and communication and social skills coach based in San Francisco, California, and has been featured on numerous national publications such as Inc.com. He’s also a #1 Amazon best-selling dating and relationships author with the most popular online dating book on the market, and writes frequently on dating, love, sex, and relationships.

He focuses on using his emotional intelligence and understanding of human interaction to break down emotional barriers, instill confidence, and equip people with the tools they need for success. No pickup artistry and no gimmicks, simply a thorough mastery of human psychology delivered with a dose of real talk, perfected and honed through three years of law school.

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1 review2 followers
August 4, 2021
this book was either written for stupid people or men.
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124 reviews1 follower
November 15, 2022
Before reading this book, I read a review on it that said: “this book was either written for stupid people or men.” Which made me both LOL and want to read the book.

My take away of the key points the Author asserts are:
1. Rather than try to passively detect lies, actively steer (manipulate?) conversation so liars reveal themselves.
2. Rely on your gut feeling to read people accurately.

I got a laugh from that earlier reviewer, and I understand her point. How to Read People Like a Book is best suited for someone who desperately desires to gain situational advantage over everyone they interact with. It’s not particularly helpful to an emotionally intelligent person.
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255 reviews189 followers
February 16, 2022
3/10.

Some decent insight on how to read/analyze body language but otherwise this book was so lame.

He had a whole chapter talking about personality tests and quizzes. Very surface level stuff tbh.

Maybe a good read if you’re in High School or severely lack social intelligence
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148 reviews235 followers
July 3, 2022
Yet another so-called self help book where a so-called author quotes smart people, mostly psychologists and well known authors who actually had some knowledge about the topic. I would call this an essay on the subject rather than a book one should spend his money on. The guy adds little if nothing of his own ideas. Buy C.G. Jung instead or other authors he quotes and uses as a reference if you’re looking for something serious. If you are not a fan of reading and simply want an easy brief on the subject, go for this one. I do not recommend it, though.
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13 reviews
August 30, 2022
Good information but ONE HUNDRED PERCENT a self published book with terrible margins, outrageously large text and randomly widely spaced words throughout which made it murder to read lol 😷
41 reviews2 followers
April 29, 2021
I've read that book because I sometimes have difficulties understanding people's intentions.
Overall, it is a fun book to read which touches on psychology and personality type studies like MBTI and Keirsey. I don't agree with some parts which involve stereotyping, but overall the main message is 'look for the context, then try to understand people'.
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812 reviews26 followers
November 21, 2024
I would give this book a 'too simple and surface level but it advertises itself as one of those manipulate ppl cuz u know dark psychology' out of 10 coconuts. It basically is literally just explaining those myers briggs personality test and gives brief information about body language, i mean yeah these things are important but this book doesn't really add anything new to the table.
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172 reviews7 followers
February 7, 2022
I learned a lot of insight about body language from this book. Some information was material I'd already learned in psychology classes, and some could be thought of as "common sense," but common sense isn't necessarily obvious for everyone.
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16 reviews
June 27, 2024
Why do I keep listening to Booktok…
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39 reviews
October 20, 2024
This book is so dumb. It's just full of plagiarism with no proper citations. I guess anyone can write a book these days by copying stuff from the internet and articles.
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6 reviews
June 6, 2024
You don’t need to read this book. You already know all of this by just existing in your own life and interacting with others on a daily basis. I finished the book and it summed up things I already knew. It was a very easy read tho. That’s why I give it one star.
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363 reviews69 followers
January 22, 2025
Ufffffff ... Muy genérico, el autor quiso decir muchas cosas en pocas paginas y no profundiza en nada, podría resumirse en "fijate en todo" pero no explica más allá de cada cosa. Parece un artículo de Google más que un libro, esperaba más.

Tal vez si no sabes absolutamente nada de lenguaje corporal etc puede ayudarte a entrar en el tema
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32 reviews4 followers
September 20, 2022
سطحي اووي وممل ومطلعتش منه بحاجه والحمد لله اكتشفت اني مش لوحدي ...
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16 reviews1 follower
December 11, 2024
zero depth and repeats itself endlessly. just bad
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344 reviews7 followers
January 18, 2025
Personally the book didn't impact me too much.

But it did get my attention on the "Expression of the Shadow" - it truly intrigued me and allowed me to research this topic more.

I do believe that even if you take one small thing out of the book - it is already a success.

I do think the audience here should be a younger more inexperienced readers as many of the things discussed in a book I personally learned in work/education and life.

But nevertheless, it had good points, examples and further research links.
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21 reviews
June 19, 2024
2,5/5
C'est intéressant, mais beaucoup d'informations qui me semblent logiques et basiques. Peut être pertinent pour les gens qui sont socialement malaisant ou peu conscient des nombreux éléments qui influencent le quotidien.
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8 reviews
September 2, 2025
so, besides taking a 30 minute long test on how to read peoples emotions - this book either gave me anger issues because of a LOT sexist and misogynistic statements or gave me trust issues in men.

besides the quiz and some valid points concerning the personality test “OCEAN” this whole book is common sense.

love the “this book was written for stupid people or men” comment lol
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129 reviews4 followers
June 1, 2024
Realmente me quedan unas 40 páginas para terminarlo pero me rindo. Hasta ahora no siento que me haya dicho nada nuevo, simplemente se dedica a decir que se puede leer y saber cómo es una persona por sus expresiones faciales y su postura corporal (gracias por la información que casi todo el mundo sabe) pero no dice cómo hacerlo.
42 reviews
December 5, 2023
Definitely a great book for analyzing a person

This was a solid book.
This book kept me engaged the entire time.
It was insightful as to how to interpret: facial expressions (micro and macro) , social media accounts, word choice , trivial hypothetical questions that reveal a person's values , morals and mindset. If you study this book, you'll be pretty decent at analyzing others.
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193 reviews2 followers
May 24, 2021
2.5 Had some interesting parts especially towards the end but the constant reminders that reading people isnt an exact science became very grating. I also would have appreciated references to studies and other sources of information to delve into sections deeper.
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43 reviews7 followers
August 6, 2023
Basically the shit superficial parts of my psych degree. The guy reading the Audio book is incredibly boring and has no emotion to his tone, which is ironic given that Patrick discusses that in his book.
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77 reviews3 followers
November 19, 2023
Very disappointing, it’s not solid. The topics being covered are generic.
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349 reviews14 followers
August 23, 2024
I couldn't finish it. I enjoyed the first part of the book and then I just couldn't like the book. Pretty much anything he says that you can use to help understand people, you also can't use it because it may be situational. What kind of contradicts itself in the sense of it's trying to teach you to understand and read people better, but everything he tells you is circumstantial, you have to have enough data points, you have to know people well enough to interpret things correctly.. And you still might be wrong. The book seems a little useless to write because you can never fully read people without understanding.

He gives some tips to be a little Sherlock Holmes, But nothing that is actually really useful.
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23 reviews2 followers
May 17, 2024
When I first saw this book I was prepared for novel ideas on being able to read people. Unfortunately I did not read one new idea in this book and a lot of it was common sense. There are a few nuggets of gold in it like understanding one’s ego, the pleasure and pain theory, and some others. This book felt more like a long essay on the topic of psychological theories relating to understanding someone. The book is obviously self published with the weird formatting and numerous typos. The largest take away I got from the book is to truly read someone you need to spend time with them and understand their patterns.
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