Lewis Howes explains how to spot a genuine smile. Real smiles crinkle the eyes and push the cheeks up, creating crow's feet and smile bags. His daughter Emma noticed that happy people's skin moves differently around their eyes.
How can you tell if someone's giving you a real smile?
Uh, if they're smizing.
Smizing? What's smizing?
Kind of like right there. Yeah, your eyes are kind of like crow. Okay, so I can give you crow's feet. Oh yeah, the bottom half is not there.
Yeah, it's all in our cheeks.
Is it? Okay.
Okay, so when we're happy, our cheeks pop up, and then this skin is usually flat, and we get smile bags.
Oh, okay. Yeah, so if we have smile bags So the cheeks are pushing up against the eyes.
Yeah, it has nothing to do with the mouth.
You can fake smile, but you're not authentic smiling.
My daughter Emma was 4 when I was describing all these different points on the face for joy. And she said, "Mama, you just have to look at the skin right there. If it's fat, they're happy." And that was sort of the beginning of pulling this one piece that was specific for each emotion.
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