Comments on: Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-reading People

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:23:29 +0000

I downloaded it from the internet.. It’s a PDF file.

It’s great, goes into detail, not to much as to get bored, but it’s practical.
I’ve only read 1/4 of it.. it goes from feet to head. And I’ve managed to learn some good stuff that I’ve not found in many other books.

I’m curious of what Derren has to add to this book.

BTW.. What’s that speed reading method Derren is using? Where do I find it detailed /:) thanks

By: Tim Atyeo

Tim Atyeo — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:16:42 +0000

@ frank,true trained NLPers, in my experience dont say “not keeping eye contact is a lie”. look on the internet at eye accessing cues. eyes indicate whatshappening internaly,wether we are having a feeling,remebering visualyorconstructing a picture. selftalk,sound rembered/constucted sound. with info coming in and going out.”we can not have a thought with out giving off free info about what our bodies are saying.
Yes there is an indication that there could be a mis-match between what a person says and what their body langauge is telling us. calibration. eye accessing cues are not set in stone but a guide, but find out for your self through questioning? look it up on the net and let me know what you find out.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:29:11 +0000

NLPers might say not keeping eye contact is sign of a lie and keeping eye contact is sign of truthfulness, but I’d be more willing to trust Derren Brown who suggests that keeping eye contact for answering to a specefic question when usually the person would not be keeping eye contact would signify a lie.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:47:10 +0000

Wrong about the eyes, liers will maintain strong (forced) eye contact, and they say people who are lieing look to the left, partly right , if someone is mentally talking to themselves they will look to the left and down

By: ricoculous

ricoculous — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:11:16 +0000

That video wasted a decent opportunity to demonstrate something accurate or educational.
For deception detection, look at the research by: Kohnken (1987), Kraut and Poe (1980) and Ekman & O’Sullivan (1991).

In the Eckman paper, Secret Service employees were the most accurate of the surveyed groups at detecting deception and only managed it successfully around 64% of the time, i.e. only 14% more successfully than a coin toss. To the best of my knowledge, those results have generally stood since.

By: jazzgirl

jazzgirl — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:56:46 +0000

Does Derren get all his books for free now from Amazon – they must really love him for all the free advertising they get!

The book looks good, got it to take on holiday, along with Tricks of the Mind [mp3s & book - nearly finished tho ] and Quirkology. Much more interesting reads than boring chick lits, thanks for the reviews!

By: Eve

Eve — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:39:43 +0000

So, as we all watch that video, is Derren watching us from the top of the blog and being “judgemental or harbouring negative feelings” and “maybe lying”. Would that be accurate?

By: Christopher Robinson

Christopher Robinson — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:08:05 +0000

Wow that video was rubbish! (The one in the article, not the one posted by Anomoly). Please don’t assume the video is by the author of the book that is mentioned.

DB’s book has a chapter that includes the pitfalls of reading body language too literally, and adopting NLP as a kind of religion. The book by Joe Navarro looks good, too.

Oh, and the old “we only use 10% of our brain” is also not true.

cheers,
Chris

By: Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:03:08 +0000

Sounds like a really interesting book, might just have to buy it!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:18:45 +0000

Confucius Say: Man with hands in pockets feels cocky all day.