Status Updates From How to Extract Info, Secret...

good: page 185

good: page 182

good page (173)

good summary (168-169)

stupid example (157)

Chapter 3 was good - especially eye contact & listening sections

117-123 eye contact - was interesting, new & good

"You're a complex person with many things you don't tell others, although when you're close to someone, you are open and enjoy good company. You sometimes feel a little socially anxious, and worry about mistakes you've made in the past. You are unique and quite different from other people. Sometimes, you're fearful of the future. Though you like novelty and excitement, you also do appreciate time to rest"

Example was awful (148)

Good for kids

Page 88 - somewhat unreasonable example
I don't think complaining about work with a colleague will suddenly get them to open up about their marital issues out of nowhere.

Okay, I'm not really sure what the point of elicitation is.
You can either compliment someone or complain to them in order to get SOME kind of unspecified response. Is the point to just get someone to reply to you in words? I was hoping for more than that with this book. I don't need help getting someone to answer or talk to me in a basic conversation.

Finally, the first new content in the book.
Elicitation!

Majority of the first 60 pages were copied from another book the author wrote (which I was okay with since the rest of the book seemed new), but then the second chapter starts out with the exact same questions that appear in two of the author's other books! 😠

Here's what I don't get:

How does this help me read people? How does this relate? He's just talking about psychics right now.

This is an odd book.

lol he's giving readers techniques the mystics and psychics use like cold reading people.