The Ultimate Body Language Book

An evolutionary perspective is how my framework on body language was developed.
Body language helps us predict the emotions and thoughts of the people around us and gives us a
framework from which to begin to understand them, even before opening with our sales pitch or
agreement, for example. My interest into body language first began in university, as I sought to learn
about girls and dating. I wanted to understand what made some men more successful than others, and
how, or rather if, women could be read. I was particularly interested in indicators of sexual interest. At
the time, I figured the end goal was just as good as good a place to begin, as any. As I learned and
studied, it became apparent that it was possible to manipulate the game all the way through and even
use body language in an active way instead of a reactive way to turn the tables in my favour. My
passion got me into other realms as well, such as evolutionary theory, animal behaviour and ultimately
into zoology. This pulled me away from psychology somewhat, but I always had an interest in people
and what made them tick. So while I studied animals, how it related to people was always at the back
of my mind and helped me create my formula. I now look at life through a zoological perspective
because while I was studying, psychology was just beginning to wrestle with evolutionary ideas, but
hadn’t totally accepted its force and weight. This is a huge factor in why I got away from psychology
and delve more and more into zoology and evolutionary theory. From the start, I knew it was the right
way to look at things. My current framework would be classified as sociobiological with a high degree
of favourtism toward the biological aspects, evolution in particular. I am particularly fond of primary
scientific research, that is, research studies that are normally published in giant periodicals in university
libraries. Now we can just grab them, and their findings, digitally through electronic files. The days of
photocopying endlessly are over, but the information still needs to be properly filter, dissected and
reapplied in a useful fashion by an expert of some sort. You can still get the information from the
source, and if you really are keen, should, but it still needs to be interpreted to become useful, and takes
a dedicated mind, because at times, it is quite dry. You’ll find this book heavily sprinkled with such
primary research which makes it powerfully predictive, tested, empirical, peer reviewed, and more
importantly, and as all real science should be, replicable.
By the end of my third year of university I had drafted the guts of a book about sexual body language
but never took any action. It sat there for years, but I finally decided to share it with the world and