Mel Robbins explains how to read someone's body language in conversation. Watch for a baseline of their normal posture, then notice when they shift into a fleeing position, pointing toward an exit or breaking eye contact. Face them shoulder-to-shoulder and eye-to-eye to catch what they're really feeling.
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if you're reading people, you just wanna look at what they do with their body. You get their baseline. You can get somebody's baseline in just a couple of minutes. You can see, do they like to have their arms crossed? Even how, when they're talking to you, are they frontally aligned? So we're, we're frontally aligned right now. Meaning are
we're like squared off against each other? Yes. Yes.
Okay. Frontally aligned, shoulder to shoulder. That's a good way when you talk to someone to have that. You don't wanna talk to people like this. Like this or like that,
or on our
phone.
So it's like almost sort of common sense. Like if somebody is not looking you in the eye or their body is pointed toward the door as you're trying to have a serious conversation. That's called a fleeing position, by the way. That's called a who?
Fleeing position. So when you're speaking to someone and they're leaning. So right now the door is here to my, to my left.
Yes.
So if we were doing the interview, Mel, and I'm like this the whole time and I'm just like sitting at the edge like this, Mel, you know, I'm like, Abby doesn't want to be here. That's called, it's called the fleeing position.
