This is a YouTube video titled "The Secret Of Bill Clinton's Charisma" created in March 2016. It features a narrated analysis focusing on Bill Clinton's eye contact and body language during a 1992 town hall debate, contrasting it with George Bush's style. The content explores how Clinton's focused and narrow eye contact contributes to his charismatic presence and effectiveness in communication.
Bill Clinton may have the best eye contact of anyone in the world. There are tons of stories of people from both sides of the political spectrum being totally charmed by him and commenting that when he looked at them, they felt like the only person in the room. That charm may have won him the presidency in one specific moment of a town hall debate in 1992. And that is what we are looking at today. By the way, this video is part of our Throwback Thursday series. So if you're a longtime fan of the channel, you may have seen a similar video. And we do this to update the old videos and just to make sure that they play with even sound and out of both heads, headphones. So let's take a look first, paying attention to the distance of George Bush versus Bill Clinton.
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The first thing is to get a sense of how far away each person is when they're speaking. George Bush gave his answer about 25ft away from the question asker who was actually off screen to the right. Watch now as Clinton closes that distance as much as possible, how it's affected.
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You know, people who lost their jobs and lost their homes. Well, I've been governor of a small state for 12 years.
See how Clinton gets as close as possible without actually entering the crowd. This lets the person know that you are focused on them. He's actually directing all of his body language towards the woman who asked this question. And at this distance, she gets a sense of the nuances of his eye contact, which makes everything that we're about to talk about and that Clinton does so, so much more powerful.
Every year, Congress and the president sign laws that make us do more things and gives us less money to do it with.
Notice here. And how for the rest of this video, Clinton spends 90 to 95% of his answer looking directly at the woman who asked the question. Contrast this with George Bush who is looking all over the place.
Obviously it has a lot to do with interest rates. I think that that's an important part of being a parent. If the question if you're maybe I won't get it wrong. Are you suggesting that I was in the Lomax AME Church? I don't think it's fair to say you haven't had cancer, therefore you don't know what it's like.
To be fair. A few of these examples are times when George Bush was addressing the entire audience, which was More of a tactical mistake than a charismatic one. But other times, his glances away served no purpose at all. He wasn't addressing the audience, just letting his gaze wander. And those glances away indicate that he sometimes has trouble maintaining eye contact with a single person while he's speaking. And guess what? Most people do. Most people have no problem holding eye contact when they listen. But when it comes time to speak, they get uncomfortable holding eye contact. So they move their eyes around. They look up, they look away. Sometimes they look at the floor. Simply training yourself to calmly focus on the other person while you're speaking immediately makes you more engaging. Now, next up, let's look at the shape of Bill Clinton's eyes. Notice how narrow his eye contact tends to be.
I see people in my state, middle class people. Their taxes have gone up in Washington and their services have gone down, while the wealthy have gotten tax cuts.
See how narrow his eye contact is. It almost looks like he is squinting. The more narrow your eye contact, the more serious and intense your tone is going to be interpreted. And this is especially powerful for men because a heavy brow is typically associated with increased testosterone. Now, you can't go and change the shape of your skull to give yourself a heavier brow, but you can narrow your eye contact, which will trigger those feelings that you're being genuine, serious, and powerful. Clinton is doing exactly that. The genius is that he remains expressive with his eyes by moving his eyebrows, tilting his head, nodding as he speaks. So watch that and then see how you can feel the intensity exactly when his eye contact gets really narrow.
I have seen what's happened in this last four years. When in my state, when people lose their jobs, there's a good chance I'll know them by their names. When a factory closes, I know the people who ran it. When the businesses go bankrupt, I know them.
