Vanessa Van Edwards argues that reading facial expressions is a skill everyone should learn but almost nobody is taught. It matters in every interaction, from dates and interviews to negotiations and sales, and it's learnable.
As long as you can see a face, you can be reading facial expressions. Facial expressions help us in everything, every area. And I think that it also is a social lubricant for so many of our communications and so many of our interactions. It helps with everything from social interactions to negotiations to interviews to parties to dates in profile pictures. And I also think it makes reality television a little bit more interesting. All of a sudden, you're able to see a lot more information on your TV shows, in your movies, in your media. It also helps with everyone in your life, from your partner to your colleagues to your clients clients to your family to your boss to your friends to your kids to contractors to salespeople. And that's why it's such a helpful skill to have in your back pocket. In fact, everyone should know how to read facial expressions. But for some reason, we're not taught how to read facial expressions until now. And here's the good news. This is a skill we can absolutely learn.
