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Modern Mentor

569 - The Art of Reading Minds with Henrik Fexeus

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Business, Management, Careers

4.3726 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Henrik Fexeus, the author of The Art of Reading Minds, shares his techniques for developing social skills and using nonverbal communication.

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0:00.0

This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the Get a Done guy's quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:09.1

I'm here today with Henrik Fexeis, the author of The Art of Reading Minds.

0:15.0

He knew I was going to be here and he just happened to show up at the same time.

0:18.0

Not quite sure how that worked.

0:19.5

And we're here to discuss his book, The Art of Reading Minds. Welcome, Henrik. Well, thank you so much. So I am presuming

0:27.3

that when you talk about the art of reading minds, you're not talking about literally mind reading.

0:31.6

Like, you know, what do you want for dinner? Oh, I already know. Yeah. No, that kind of mind reading

0:37.3

just happens in fantasies,

0:39.9

and that is actually what sends people into therapy.

0:43.4

You know, when you assume that your partner would read your mind, for instance.

0:47.4

Not a good idea.

0:48.6

Got it.

0:48.9

You mean my partner can't read my mind?

0:51.1

Oh.

0:53.8

I'm going to leave that between the two of you.

0:57.6

We're in therapy.

0:58.7

We're working on it.

1:00.8

So then tell me what is the book about and how did it come to pass?

1:06.4

Right.

1:06.6

So the thing is, I've always been fascinated by human behavior, why we do the things we do, both to each other and to ourselves.

1:17.4

And I think it was because when I was a young kid, I did not have any social skills at all.

1:22.7

It felt like everyone else had gotten this book on how to socialize with other people and I was

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