Hello and welcome to The Upgrade, the podcast from the team at LifeHacker, where we help you improve your life one week at a time.

I'm Melissa Kirsch, editor-in-chief of

LifeHacker. And I'm Alice Bradley, LifeHacker's deputy editor. And today we're becoming mind readers.

That's right, and we're not talking about some psychic woo-woo stuff. Nope. We're talking about

how to read the subtle body language we use to unconsciously communicate. And our guest is

Swedish mentalist Henrik Vexeus.

All your emotions and your feelings and your important thoughts will be displayed by

minute signals in your facial muscles, in how you move, in how you speak.

So just by taking note of that, you can quite actually know what goes on inside someone else's head.

After our chat with Henrik, Melissa and I attempt to read the mind of LifeHacker staff writer Nick Douglas.

So how are you feeling about having us attempt to read your mind?

A little worried, but I'm ready to be disappointed in mind reading, honestly.

Hey, Alice.

Yes, Melissa.

So when I think of mind reading, I think about people that are quacks or quack adjacent.

I think about like a hypnotist in front of a crowd of people.

And he has like three people on stage and one is quacking like a duck and one is speaking in tongues.

And the other one is like pointed to the audience and then touching their nose a million times and they're acting crazily because they're under the spell of this, you know, all powerful hypnotist.

Yeah.

And I think of mentalists in the same way.

Like they're entertainers, right?

And I want to believe that what they're doing is legitimate and it's real and that, you know, there is some sort of magic in the world. But I don't know. Like I actually believe that those people at the hypnotists show are, you know, working for him or their plants. And I believe that the mentalist has some kind of like speaker

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