A handshake used to seal deals, but scams and weak grips have made it unreliable. An authentic smile works better as a trust signal, though a fake one backfires. Nonverbal cues matter, just not as much as they used to.
Is a handshake and a smile something that really truly can seal the deal?
Um, well, because of the situation we're in with a handshake, I can tell you that you may not be able to seal the deal, at least at this point. The average person, if they have— I, I want to be with and I want to relate with and I want to— I, I just, I want to work with the person where I a handshake. I know from knowing you that a handshake would be sufficient. I have learned in the last couple of years that it is always not sufficient. So you, because there's so much scamming going on, you really have to be careful with that. But let's say you are in person. The couple things that I would mention is that If you crush someone's hand, it's definitely going to seal the deal in the wrong way, because people use their hands, some of them, uh, for a living. So you would want to be really careful about that kind of thing. If someone is just, um, let's say they just touch the tips of your fingertips and they think that's a handshake, no, that, that will only seal the deal in a negative way. So So that won't work. But the smile, the smile is different. Smile is universal. People, people really respond to a smile. Just remember that there's an authentic smile. And there's that smile that just is so fake that, you know, it's fake. And it takes a lot of work to make a fake smile. Look good. But, you know, those are two of the most important things. So most of the time it could seal a deal, but there are always exceptions.
