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When words and body language contradict each other, people tend to believe the nonverbal message. Alongside a correct reading of what Mehrabian's rule actually claims, you will learn how to consciously control your posture, facial expressions, and gestures so that what you mean gets through.
Trying to hold someone's gaze makes the sentence you were about to say disappear. Instead of training yourself to stare, switch to conveying interest by other routes, from why a fixed gaze eats thinking capacity to what to do in an interview.
Muttering your shopping list at the supermarket, saying "okay, next is..." out loud at work. Talking to yourself isn't a strange habit - it's a powerful tool that boosts your brain's performance.
The ability to pick out your own name in a noisy room and the error of hearing it when nobody called are two faces of one mechanism. We sort out how listening succeeds and fails from the view that attention is braced in advance.