A short spoken excerpt (YouTube video) arguing that relationships are central to life and that one’s energy and body language can change interpersonal dynamics. The speaker, who mentions being an ex-con, emphasizes overcoming others’ preset biases when building relationships and uses personal experience to illustrate difficulty entering social/professional spaces after incarceration.
Are you going to be one of the people that's going to sell it to them? Here's why. Your energy is important. You're going to sit across from people in life that you want to build a relationship with. And some of these people may have preset bias against someone that does what you do. But you've got to build a relationship, because relationships are everything. Relationships are everything in life. Sometimes when you sit across from that person that has preset bias, you're going to start a relationship from a place of less than zero. I know a thing or two about this. You know why I'm an ex con? You think people were just dying to hang out with ex cons when I got out? You know how hard it was to get in this room right here? Your energy and your body language can change the dynamic of any situation you're in.
