How to Understand Others Better : Getting Curious About Human Nature and Fine-Tuning Your Ability to Read People Like a Book

by Michelle Matthews

Wish you knew how to understand others better? Interpret what’s behind their behaviour? Sense their inner workings? Comprehend their emotions? And be able to do all this with ease and grace?How to Understand Others Better is your key to understanding other people. Inside this book, you’ll discover tools to put an end to the frustration, disappointment, sadness and annoyance that often come from dealing with other people’s behaviours and actions, and step into a world where you can read people like a book and navigate wisely through the complex maze of human nature.In this thought-provoking and practical guide, you’ll embark on a journey of self-discovery and human psychology. Through relatable stories and insightful anecdotes – structured around 27 concepts designed to help you understand others better, nine insights anyone can apply and three ground rules that underpin everything – you’ll gain valuable knowledge and techniques that allow you to read people more effectively.Inside How to Understand Others Better, you’ll Strategies for understanding other people’s perspectives, raising your self-awareness and understanding different personalities better.Techniques to channel your inner private investigator skills to identify hidden motives or intentions, and the best ways to react to them constructively.Ground rules for self-preservation, how to deal with vulnerability and ways to engage your inner personal coach.Nine practical insights you can start implementing right now to cultivate a highly constructive mindset, ensure empathy guides your interactions and further boost your interpersonal intelligence.How to enhance your communication skills, develop stronger connections and more confidently navigate tricky social interactions.You’ll also learn how the power of understanding people makes you less reactive to the challenging behaviours and actions of others and reduces stress in your life; be better equipped to work through challenges and produce desirable outcomes, even when working with people who are uncooperative, shy, awkward or timid; and be able to deal with difficult people without losing your cool!Your days of being confounded by people's puzzling behaviour are over! You’re about to be empowered to use simple and effective tools to discover how to read people, understand their behaviour and enjoy conversing and mixing with others more.Uncover the power of understanding people and master perceptive interpersonal skills. Read How to Understand Others Better today and step into a world where communication, understanding and connections flourish and thrive!

192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2023

About the author

M. E. Matthews is a graduate of The George Washington University and alum of the Yale Writer's Workshop. She is currently pursuing her M.F.A in Creative Writing. Her writing has been featured on Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, Mamapedia, and BlogHer. You can also find her writing in the anthologies; Motherhood: May Cause Drowsiness and Surviving Mental Illness Through Humor. When she's not writing for her blog Scattered Wrecks she's on Instagram looking at all the pretty pictures and taking a few of her own. Michelle lives in Northern Virginia with her husband, daughter, twin sons, and cat.

Reviews

[Rose Olive · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous self-help reference book.

In a world where many have become impatient and intolerant it’s nice to find a book with practical advice for understanding ourselves and others better. The book is divided into concepts which makes it a fabulous self-help reference book you can return to over and over again for insights and gems of wisdom. And there’s a chapter outlining some of the personality profile tests which is an added bonus.

[Barbara Maclachlan · Rating 5 out of 5]

excellent good sense advice

Ms Matthews’s has written a wonderful, common sense approach to solid interpersonal communication and understanding. The concepts presented will improve lives.

[Jess C · Rating 5 out of 5]

super helpful

I loved all the resources in this book! I went down a rabbit hole on the enneagram after reading it and now I’m obsessed. Highly recommend.

[Angela May · Rating 5 out of 5]

interesting read

This book made some very important points about human behavior. This would be a great book especially for teens or young adults to help them understand how to have better conversations, communication and meaningful interactions.