Read People Like a Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People’s Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors

by Patrick King

Speed read people, decipher body language, detect lies, and understand human nature.Is it possible to analyze people without them saying a word? Yes, it is. Learn how to become a “mind reader” and forge deep connections.How to get inside people’s heads without them knowing.Read People Like a Book isn’t a normal book on body language of facial expressions. Yes, it includes all of those things, as well as new techniques on how to truly detect lies in your everyday life, but this book is more about understanding human psychology and nature. We are who we are because of our experiences and pasts, and this guides our habits and behaviors more than anything else. Parts of this book read like the most interesting and applicable psychology textbook you’ve ever read. Take a look inside yourself and others!Understand the subtle signals that you are sending out and increase your emotional intelligence.Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from scientific research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience.Learn the keys to influencing and persuading others.•What people’s limbs can tell us about their emotions.•Why lie detecting isn’t so reliable when ignoring context.•Diagnosing personality as a means to understanding motivation.•Deducing the most with the least amount of information.•Exactly the kinds of eye contact to use and avoidFind shortcuts to connect quickly and deeply with strangers.The art of reading and analyzing people is truly the art of understanding human nature. Consider it like a cheat code that will allow you to see through people’s actions and words.Decode people’s thoughts and intentions, and you can go in any direction you want with them.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Self Help, Communication, Personal Development, Business, Philosophy

277 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 7, 2020

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Siarl]

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.

[Rana Habib]

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

[Jolanta]

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.

[Madison Fenzl]

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 😷

[Erlinda Pysqyli]

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.

[Melissa]

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.

[Jess]

Why do I keep listening to Booktok…

[philine]

zero depth and repeats itself endlessly. just bad

[Evinpinar]

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'.

[blanca]

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

[Emma Hoel]

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.

[⋆˚°✩*˖ Gohnar23 (•˕ •マ.ᐟ ˚⟡˖ ࣪(inactive)]

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.

[Power In Books]

Completely garbage 🤮

[Nadine]

Super boring and superficial

[Živilė Matijaškienė]

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.

[Yasmine gamal]

سطحي اووي وممل ومطلعتش منه بحاجه والحمد لله اكتشفت اني مش لوحدي ...

[Eman Abdulaziz]

Very disappointing, it’s not solid. The topics being covered are generic.

[Melissa]

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.

[Raquel Figuesans]

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

[Joudy Mohamed Kamal]

i would give this book 5 Stars for being time-consuming but rather than that the book didn't have any new ideas to be learnt i kept reading chapter after chapter to try and find things to learn but after all i didn't find any.
what i mean to say is instead of reading that book go out to the world and interact with people you will actually learn something.

[Em read_em_andweep]

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.

[Luca Jones]

It’s all common sense.

[Henry]

What a bunch of horseshit.

[Danielle Paquette-Harvey]

I'd say some of the tips given by the book are good, but overall it doesn't go deep enough.

[Valerie]

You don’t really need a manual on how to read people like a book. Research, observe, analyze. Repeat.

[Pauline]

Don’t waste your money on this book.

[Sigurd Berg]

Jeg følte at denne boka var litt for simpel og rett fram. Mye av det forfatteren tar opp, er egentlig ting mange allerede vet, men kanskje ikke tenker bevisst over når det gjelder å lese mennesker. Boka levde heller ikke opp til forventningene mine. Jeg trodde dette skulle være en bok som lærte bort en mer unik og avansert måte å lese folk på, men det er det ikke.

Jeg synes boka ble litt for enkel og tok opp mange ting som virker ganske åpenbare når man skal lese mennesker. Samtidig inneholder den også en del nyttige poenger. Den handler mye om ting du egentlig vet fra før, men som du kanskje ikke har satt ord på eller tenkt bevisst over. Jeg skulle ønske det var noe mer ekstraordinært.

Det mest interessante kapittelet, etter min mening, var kapittel 4, som handlet om hvordan man kan avsløre løgn.

Det finnes selvfølgelig situasjoner hvor det kan være veldig nyttig å være flink til å lese mennesker. Det var spennende å lese om forfatterens perspektiver og se hva han mente. Denne boka er ca en D tier bok.

[Eve Ringuette]

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.

[Fabiola Llama]

Finished in a day so 4 stars

[Paolaaamn]

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.