when it comes to reading people I generally get asked two questions one
how was one to begin the process when there is so much to observe and so many
possible interpretations of those observations and two how long does it
take to become proficient in answer to the latter question it can vary based
off of a number of different things ranging from IQ to proclivity the
operation to proclivity to understanding people and most importantly how much
practice you put into developing and honing this skill even with a high IQ
and a natural talent for observation and logic the level of deductive prowess
portrayed by fictional characters that embellish this skill such as Patrick
Jane Cal Lightman and most notably of course Sherlock Holmes is impossible as
the real capacity of this methodology is stretched to a feasibly impossible
degree for dramatic effect and that's fine these shows exists to
entertain and to tell good stories that one can suspend their disbelief with
however to attain a proficiency that is reflected in this methodology becoming
your default thought process it takes hundreds of hours and years of practice
this series will focus more on the latter question which boils down to what
methodology you actually bring to effectively manage and organize the
information that you observe so that you can break down even the most complex
problems and most difficult people to read into their simplest components the
philosophy that my approach is predicated on is the deconstruction of a
problem into its simplest parts understanding those individual parts and
then reconstructing the problem with the newfound micro understanding of the
individual parts to fully comprehend the macro understanding of the whole as long
as we're all using clear reasoning here the manner in which you go about
organizing and dissecting a problem has some room for individual tailoring and
one should not rely on one individual approach in particular too much as
specific circumstances will call for improvisation from time to time so if it
seems like I'm babbling at this point here take a look at that video up there
to get a clearer understanding of what I mean when I say the word deduction so
they you can have a better idea of what we're talking about here as long as you
have firm grasp of that your system of analysis on the level of observation and
organization of the data can be so without further ado here is my
methodology when I observe a person I break down the evidence I observe into
four categories physicality apparel and paraphernalia verbal communication and
nonverbal communication we'll go over a more in-depth analysis of each of these
in all their respective subcategories in future installments in this series so if
you're not already and you're interested in this sort of thing subscribe and
click that Bell icon to get notified of my next upload as a brief disclaimer
I'll never deny that you can make a very erroneous claim about a person by
observing simply one standout thing about them and then jumping to
conclusions based off of that this couldn't be further from what we're
trying to achieve here the goal here is to remain objective and analysis and to
determine facts about the person not to form opinions about them now if you
think that this method of coming to understand a person is off-putting to
you not really your cup of tea fine if you think that the only way you should
ever get to know a person is through verbal interaction with them and social
setting more power to you just bear in mind that people do tend to lie and more
often than you would think and perhaps rather than seeing this as a way of
distancing yourself from genuine social interaction perhaps this could be a way
to enhance it by dispensing with the facades and lies you're presented with
by everybody you speak to every single day of your life or at least don't look
down upon the people who would like to do that anyway
Foofa thought so briefly physicality describes the physical biological
aspects of a person such as their fitness and activity level which I've
already done a video on hair tanlines age development of various muscle groups
grooming habits etc attire obviously describes what they're wearing and links
are in the description and up there to videos I've done on that thus far but in
this series we'll go over things such as determining the expensive clothes
discerning what things are luxury items to the person and what items in clothing
are sentimental to a person verbal communication obviously has to do
with what they say but deeper than that it has to do with the way they say it
sentence structure vocal pitch changing pitch diction and vocabulary as well as
other things play into this and lastly nonverbal communication which has to do
with the science of facial expressions micro expressions gestures micro gestures
establishing a person's baseline and looking for deviations from that
baseline nonverbal grammar etc while we will get into some of this on this
channel for the time being my friend Logan runs a channel called observe
which is primarily dedicated to explaining the science of nonverbal
communication so be sure to hop over there and subscribe to watch his videos
because nonverbal communication is essential to a deductionist so thusly we
come to the end of the video and the start of the new year for the channel we
will be tackling the harder techniques and methodologies of deduction in this
coming year so be sure to subscribe if you're new links to helpful resources as
well as the equipment I use to make this video are in the description below and
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will you aspiring detectives out there arrivederci