Vanessa Van Edwards explains how reading micro-expressions, the fleeting facial cues people can't control, sharpens your ability to spot hidden emotions and predict behavior. Research shows it correlates with better relationships, lower social anxiety, higher sales, and athletic success.
Microexpressions are the secret communication skill that we should all have. Once I started to learn micro expressions, it was like seeing the world in high definition. All of a sudden I could spot hidden emotions. I could better predict behavior, I could better understand the people around me. I believe that learning to decode facial expressions is like activating a secret superpower. You begin to see things you never knew were there before. So the science proves that being able to read facial expressions helps you in every area of your life. So the research has found that the better we are at reading faces, the better we are at reading emot. The better our relationship. The better we can communicate with our partner, our kids, our spouses, the less social anxiety we have. People who are better at reading faces have less social anxiety, and that's because they're able to spot and sense the emotions in a room. They're able to speed read people. The science has found that when salespeople learn how to read faces, they earn more because they're able to better predict their customers and clients needs. And this one really blows my mind. They found that athletes who are better at reading facial expressions win more. And that's because they're able to read their teammates, their competitors, they're able to sense the emotions on a court or on a field.
