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The Jordan Harbinger Show

135: Joe Navarro | How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Business, Education, Science

4.812.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Joe Navarro (@navarrotells) is a retired FBI agent, one of the world's leading experts on nonverbal communication, and author of Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People.

What We Discuss with Joe Navarro:
  • How coming to the United States from Cuba at an early age poised Joe Navarro to become one of the world's most respected experts in nonverbal communication.
  • How to spot the narcissists and predators in your midst before they spot you as a clueless opportunity.
  • What to do if you find you're already being wrapped up in the deceitful webs of these dangerous personalities and how to disentangle yourself from them.
  • Why you often let misguided social programming override your natural instincts to sniff out the bad behavior of people in your life and how to tune into those instincts again.
  • The best first step in arming yourself against the actions of predators and narcissists in your life -- whether they're bully bosses or abusive spouses.
  • And much more...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer, Jason DeFilippo.

0:05.5

Now, for years, I've been obsessed with communication. And I started this obsession with the idea

0:11.6

that body language and nonverbal communication could be read and interpreted. And one of the pioneers

0:16.5

of this specialty is retired FBI agent Joe Navarro. Joe co-founded the program, the FBI

0:23.1

still uses to this day to teach and interpret human behavior and the work is absolutely fascinating.

0:29.3

Of course, Joe left Cuba when he was eight and came to the United States. He wasn't a native

0:34.5

English speaker. So nonverbal cues like the ones we're going to talk about today and the ones

0:38.3

he writes about became very important in helping him decipher what people were saying. Today,

0:43.7

Joe and I discuss dangerous personalities, namely the narcissist and the predator. We're going to

0:49.2

learn about the characteristics of each and how we can spot them. We'll also learn what to do when

0:53.8

we realize we've come across one in our day to day life, or perhaps we're even living with one

0:59.0

of them. This is a great episode for the women and men in your life to stay safe and to create

1:04.4

security for yourself as well. After this show, you'll find yourself evaluating everyone around you

1:09.7

and possibly even yourself. And hey, if you want to know how I managed to book all these great

1:14.3

people and manage my relationships, well, I use systems and tiny habits, check out our level

1:19.2

one course, which is free over at jordanharbinger.com slash level one. All right, here's Joe Navarro.

1:25.4

This book really had me not sleeping so easily. I was reading it on a plane and I thought,

1:31.5

oh my gosh, some of these dangerous personalities, they're not, it's not the kind of danger where you're

1:36.7

like, oh, yeah, this person, you know, he's walking down the street and he's going to take my wallet.

1:40.8

It's more dangerous and scarier because you start thinking about all these people in your life

1:46.0

that you know that have these qualities and you go, oh my gosh, is this person just hiding their

1:51.3

crazy really, really well? And I don't know about it. And I think that that's probably the case.

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