Young and Profiting with Hala Taha - Dr. Jack Schafer: Turn On The Like Switch | E64

Episode Date: April 27, 2020

Learn how to how to influence, attract and win people over from an ex-FBI agent!  Today on the show we're yapping with Dr. Jack Schafer, a former FBI special agent, professor, psychologist, and auth...or of "The Like Switch." Jack spent fifteen years conducting counter-intelligence and counterterrorism investigations, and seven years as a behavioral analyst for the FBI’s National Security Division. He developed spy recruitment techniques, interviewed terrorists, and trained agents in the art of interrogation and persuasion. To boil it down, much of Jack's job was to convert spies into allies, by getting them to be his friend, like and trust him. Now he shares his strategies to the masses so the average person can use them in everyday situations to influence, attract, and win people over. Tune in to learn about non-verbal cues and friend signals, how to approach strangers at a party, and what you can do mitigate a heated argument. Sponsored by Video Husky. If you’re interested in unlimited video editing contact Hala at hala@youngandprofiting.com for a demo. If you liked this episode, please write us a review! Follow YAP on IG: www.instagram.com/youngandprofiting Reach out to Hala directly at Hala@YoungandProfiting.com Follow Hala on Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Follow Hala on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yapwithhala Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.youngandprofiting.com   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:52 Because if they articulate no, and there's a psychological principle of consistency, when we say no, we want to be consistent with no, and it's very difficult to change our mind. So I get to the topic of money and I see the lip purse, I go, boss, I'll bet you're thinking this is way too much money. But let me explain the cost benefit. Let me explain this. Let me explain that why it is worth doing this operation. So I'm getting him to change his mind inside his mind
Starting point is 00:01:22 before he had the chance to come out and say no. You're listening to YAHP, Young and Profiting Podcast, a place where you can listen, learn, and profit. Welcome to the show. I'm your host and executive producer, Halataha. And on Young and Profiting Podcast, we investigate a new topic each week and interview some of the brightest minds in the world. My goal is to turn their wisdom into actionable advice that you can use in your everyday life, no matter your age, profession, or industry. There's no fluff on this podcast,
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Starting point is 00:02:13 Our subject matter ranges from enhancing productivity, entrepreneurship, the art of side hustles, and more. If you're smart and like to continually improve yourself, hit the subscribe button, because you'll love it here at Young & Profiting Podcast. Today on the show, I'm chatting with Dr. Jack Shafer. Jack is a return guest and he was interviewed back on episode 1, had a nail your first impressions and become a more likable person. That episode is still a fan favorite, some call it a masterpiece and I recommend you go back and listen to it next time you get a chance.
Starting point is 00:02:48 Jack is a former FBI special agent, professors, psychologists with a PhD, and author of my all-time favorite book, The Like Switch. I've probably listened to that book over 10 times. Jack spent 15 years conducting counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations, and seven years as a behavioral analyst for the FBI. He developed spy recruitment techniques, interviewed terrorists, and trained agents in the art of interrogation and persuasion. To boil it down, a much of Jack's job was to convert spies into allies by getting them
Starting point is 00:03:21 to be his friend and like and trust him. Now he shares his strategies to the masses so the average person can use them in everyday situations to influence, attract, and win people over. In this episode, we'll talk about nonverbal cues and front signals, how to approach strangers at a party, and what you can do to mitigate a heated argument. Hey, everyone. Welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast. I'm here with Dr. Jack Schaefer.
Starting point is 00:03:50 He is the author of the Like Switch and I'm really excited about the show because Jack was actually my first guest ever on Young and Profiting Podcasts. To give an introduction of our relationship, I wanted to just share a nice story about how we actually met. So when I was first thinking about having the podcast, young and profiting, I reached out to
Starting point is 00:04:12 about 10 authors and Jack was one of them. I wanted to have my first show on first impressions. I thought that would be the perfect topic for a first episode. And so I reached out to all these experts and Jack Schaefer was one of them as well as Dory Clark. And I had zero experience. I had zero credibility in the podcast world, but I had a dream. And so I emailed them. I wrote them a lengthy email, basically begging and pleading for them to come on my show. I told them I had a former website that was fairly popular. And I did really well. I had like 50 female bloggers under me. I also told them I had some radio experience, some online radio shows, but it was my first podcast ever. And I asked them to take a chance on me. And Dr. Jack Schaefer and Dory Clark were the two people who did take a chance on
Starting point is 00:05:00 me. And since then, I've become a top 10 self-improvement podcast and my show gets thousands of downloads each episode. And so Jack and Dory are two people who I'm like forever grateful for for taking a chance on me. And I just wanted this to be a lesson to everyone that when you're first starting out on something, you can shoot for the stars because there are people like Jack and Dory who will take a chance on you. And since then, I've been able to secure such great guests because of their credibility. So thank you so much, Jack. Welcome. Congratulations on your success. Thank you. And do you always take a chance on everyone or was there something special about me?
Starting point is 00:05:40 Well, I take a chance on pretty much anybody I believe in because people have taken a chance on me and it's helped my career long tremendously. So I want to pay that forward. Yeah. And speaking of pay that forward, recently I had Jordan Harbinger on the show, its episode number 57. And so he is one of the top podcasters in the world. He was the founder of the
Starting point is 00:06:05 Art of Charm podcast and then he's since left and started the Jordan Harbinger show. And I actually introduced Jack and Jordan to each other. They sort of knew each other, but Jordan said he was going to ask you to be on a show. Did you guys end up getting something booked? Yeah, we're in the process right now. Perfect. That's going to be such a great look for you. So again, another lesson for everybody listening is if somebody does a favor for you and you end up making it, make sure you go back and pay it forward and give them something in return when you can, when it makes sense. So I'm happy that worked out.
Starting point is 00:06:40 So Jack, let's talk about you, enough about me. You are the author of a like switch. You are a cop turned, FBI agent turned, author turned professor. Tell us about your career journey. That's very different skills. How did you end up becoming an FBI agent? I think that's really, really interesting. And then how did you become an author and things like that?
Starting point is 00:07:05 What was that transformation like? Well, it's kind of accidental. I just graduated from university and I didn't have a job. And a friend of mine came by and asked me for a long time to have a drink with him. I told him, sure, I'd be happy to do that. And then he said, but he wanted to stop by the Hinsdale Police Department first to get an application for a police officer
Starting point is 00:07:28 because you wanted to be a police officer. We get to the Hinsdale Police Station and he gets an application and starts filling out right there on the spot. And I said, look, what am I going to do while you're filling off this lengthy application? He just says, shut up and fill out my application for you and just turn it in and and you know how it ended up. I got the job and he didn't. Oh my gosh. So we're still friends by the way. That's funny. And so when you were an FBI agent,
Starting point is 00:08:02 that's another interesting story I became. I never had my goals set on being an FBI agent. Well, yeah, that's another interesting story I became. I never had my goal set on being an FBI agent, but I was filling my swag car up at a pump with the pump we share with another police department. And I said goodbye to that guy. I said goodbye. I'll see you tomorrow night. He said, no, he said, I'm start with the FBI tomorrow. He said, you ought to fill out an application because they're hiring. So I said, why not? with the FBI tomorrow. He said, you ought to fill out an application because they're hiring. So I said, why not? So I fill out an application and I got the job. So my career's been quite accidental.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Wow, so you're an expert so for everybody who's listening, who might not know who you are. You're an expert on likability and making friendships and getting people to like you. How did you end up becoming an expert on that? Was it your field training in the FBI? What did they, how did they teach you? I think back in, I remember as early as being eight
Starting point is 00:08:53 or 10 years old, my mom would take me to the mall. And I would sit and just watch people, fascinated with the way people behave. And I always had an interest in people. And then when I got to the police department and eventually the FBI became a behavioral analyst and all those skills that I kind of picked up, you know, through just normal working with people and making observations, I was able to hone my skills. And the FBI trained me quite a bit on behavioral analysis. Yeah, so basically it was just you fell into this job sort of accidental and then you just ended up being good at that job. It's really interesting because a lot of people fall into jobs and they end
Starting point is 00:09:38 up not being good at it or not liking it. Was it satisfying for you to be an FBI agent? It was the best job I could have ever had. I counted a privilege to wake up every day or not liking it, was it satisfying for you to be an FBI agent? It was the best job I could have ever had. I counted a privilege to wake up every day and go to work. The weekends got in the way. And my career went with the snap of the finger. That's awesome.
Starting point is 00:09:58 The reason I got good at this is because I worked counterintelligence, in other words, I caught spies. So I'd have to catch a spy, and then our goal was to make friends with that spy, encourage him to work with us as a double agent against the country he came from. And the other skills were trying to get someone to confess to a heinous crime.
Starting point is 00:10:20 In other words, you have to build this trumps with somebody for them to tell you the secret. They did something that's gonna send them to tell you the secret. They did something that's going to send them to jail for a long, long time. And that takes a certain amount of people skills to be able to decide or determine how to get someone to like you enough, to trust you enough to tell you that kind of secret. So you have a great formula. It's called the friendship formula. And since you're
Starting point is 00:10:47 talking about how you used to have to get spies to like you and trust you, I thought a great way to help my listeners understand the friendship formula would be for you to use it in an example. Just for context for everyone, Jack came on my show episode one and we went over all the basics. So we already went over the friendship formula, what it is. We went over a lot of his principles. So I want this to really be like a 2.0 version of that podcast. So first of all, explain to us what the friendship formula is because this is one of the biggest takeaways I've ever had in my life, and I use it almost every day.
Starting point is 00:11:21 I love using the friendship formula. Tell us what that is for people who don't know and then maybe walk us through one of your stories as an FBI agent using that formula. Okay, the friendship formula basically there's four elements in a personal relationship. The first one is proximity. The second one is frequency, the third one is duration, and the fourth one is intensity. So in order to have any kind of relationship at all, you have to have proximity.
Starting point is 00:11:48 Because if you're in New York and I'm in Chicago and we don't know one another exists, then there's no relationship. So there has to be some kind of acknowledgement or understanding that somebody else exists, either virtually or in person. The nice thing about proximity is, if we just share space with other people we establish a mutual liking for that person even though we don't talk to them we may not even
Starting point is 00:12:14 pay a lot of attention to them but just the fact that we share the same space we predispose one another to like us. And just being proximal with somebody isn't enough, you have to be frequently proximal with somebody. And just being frequently there doesn't do a lot either, so you have to have duration. So you have to have time with that person. And the other thing, and I think the most important thing, is the intensity of that relationship. So that's the kind of glue that holds that relationship together. And so as an agent or as a behavioral analyst, a lot of people came to us and asked, how do you recruit spies or how do you recruit sources
Starting point is 00:12:54 to give you information when you don't even know these people? So we came up with this personal relationship in that Sofrentship formula. And one of the, I guess most successful events that it worked for is we had a, and I explained this in the book, we had a Russian intelligence officer who was not very friendly and didn't wanna talk to us
Starting point is 00:13:19 and we needed information from that person. So I used to formula, but I did was, I just sat, I went into a cell and I just sat down and read the newspaper. That's all I did every day. And that's proximity. So once you there long enough and frequently enough and you spend time there, then that fear, that person has of you then turns into curiosity. But one day he says, why are you here? And I said, I'm here because I want to talk to you. And then I continued to read the newspaper. So that developed that curiosity.
Starting point is 00:13:54 And then I just left. And the next day I came back and he says, I really want to talk to you. I said, well, you told me you didn't want to talk to me. So I don't want to talk to you unless you want to do so. And he says, I really do want to talk to you. So I don't want to talk to you unless you want to do so. And he says, I really do want to talk to you. So I said, oh, OK, so I put my paper down. We engaged in a discussion where he eventually
Starting point is 00:14:11 provided us the information we were after. But the whole thing is, you can use that in your personal life. If you have a person of interest, and you can just be where they're at, if they're in a bar or a gym, just be there. And what you want to do is after you're there for a certain amount of time, your frequency develops, then you want to introduce your friendship signals, which are the eyebrow flash, the head tilt, and the smile.
Starting point is 00:14:38 Just to review the eyebrow flash is a quick up and down movement of your eyebrows, and that lasts about one sixty-fourth of a second. And when it's a long distance signal that says, I'm not a threat. So when we pass one another on the street or in the office, we have a tendency to eyebrow flash them. So just to let them know that we're not a threat. And they will eyebrow flash us back and say, I'm not a threat to you either. A lot of people do this every day, all the time,
Starting point is 00:15:08 many times a day, and they have, sometimes, they don't know they do it. Most people don't know they do this. And so, if you pass somebody in the office, first time you see them, you go, hey, how you doing? The other person goes, hey, how you doing? But the second time, watch what they do when you pass. You don't have to do any kind of verbal acknowledgement,
Starting point is 00:15:25 but watch when they pass, you know, eyebrow flash one another. And that's just a signal that says, I'm not a threat. Guys do this chin thing too. You'll see that. Yeah, that's true. They do the chin. That's a friend signal. So the second thing is your head tilt.
Starting point is 00:15:40 The reason the head tilt means it's a friend signal is because you expose your carotid artery and that is a life Blood of your your existence there if you do that you're pretty much dead in a few minutes So what you're telling that person is I'm exposing that carotid artery because I don't fear you So I'm not a threat if anybody has animals or dogs particularly Soon as you come in the house still sit there and what do they do? So if they're had, one way or the other, or I'll roll over on their stomach and they need a nice belly rub. But what they're saying basically is I'm exposing the most vulnerable part of my body
Starting point is 00:16:18 because I trust you. So, those kind of go across to the animal kingdom also. And the last thing is a smile. When we smile, we release endorphins. And endorphins make us feel good about ourselves. And there's a golden rule of friendship which says, if you want to make friends with somebody, you make them feel good about themselves. Yes. Well, as soon as you smile,
Starting point is 00:16:42 it's very difficult for someone not to smile back. And once they smile, then you get that shot of a dwarf in which says, I like you. It makes me feel good about me. So I made you feel good about you. Therefore, you're going to like me. Yeah. It's so interesting all these things that you're saying,
Starting point is 00:16:59 like, so many gems, I would encourage people to rewind that and listen to that back. It's so important to understand these things. And the friendship formula is very interesting because I think it's actually a scientific fact that the more time you spend with someone, the more attractive you think they are. So many people, they'll be in a classroom with someone and they'll start to find like their classmate attractive when if they didn't spend every day with them, they wouldn't actually think they're attractive. So it's really cool.
Starting point is 00:17:27 Yeah, that's the key to the formula. It's just letting nature or psychology work for you without working too hard at making friends. And then you come across with more natural. And it's more spontaneous, I think. Yeah. And then with the friendship formula, can you just dig a little deeper into the intensity portion? Yeah, it's easy to measure proximity. It's either you're there or you're not. Frequency is easy to put on a counter. So it's duration. You put that on a clock. When it comes to
Starting point is 00:18:00 intensity, you have to look for nonverbal behaviors. So we came up with some nonverbal behaviors that indicate intensity. And the number one is extended eye gaze. So mutual gaze. So we like each other, we look into one another's eyes. And that is similar to, if you do have dogs again, a dog will come up, sit maybe right close to you, and they'll look stare deep into your eyes That's the dog giving you kind of an eye hug and What's interesting is
Starting point is 00:18:35 My daughter when she was younger. She was the prom queen at high school and so The guys would always come by the house with proximity, not a proximity. And then they're frequently there. Then they spend a lot of time there. Those things I'm not worried about. It's just that I'm going to date myself now and talk about two things that don't exist anymore. They were supposed to be in the den looking at a VHS movie. But instead, what were they doing? Staring into one another's eyes.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Then you know that that relationship has gained some intensity. And that's one of the most powerful intensifiers. So what you want to do is put the kabasha on there. I sent the young man home. Yeah. Yeah, that's so funny. I love that story.
Starting point is 00:19:20 So you were just talking about friend signals. Your big three friend signals that you went over are the head tilt, the eyebrow flash, and the smile. What other signals can we give to people to be more likable, more approachable? And then I might actually call out some body parts and get your input on certain body parts because there are some things that I know about,
Starting point is 00:19:44 that I think you know about too, that I'd love to share with my listeners. So what other things can we do to be more approachable, more open? Well, the first thing that you can do is, and that's the extension of mutual gaze, is that when I approach you, I'm going to eyebrow flash. I'll do it slowly so you can see that eyebrow flash. I'll hit till I'll smile. And then I'm going to look at you in the eyes, but I can't look too long because that's staring So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna move my eyes, but still maintain eye contact So your brain is saying it's not a stare because he's not staring his head is moving
Starting point is 00:20:18 But in fact, I'm intensifying that relationship to that mutual gaze So that one way you can do that. Now, another way you can engage people is having open posture. In other words, don't sit there leaning back and hands crossed and legs crossed. Then we'll tell the people that you're closed off. You're going to do that.
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Starting point is 00:21:48 to the Millionaire University podcast. New episodes drop Mondays and Thursdays. Find the Millionaire University podcast on Apple Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's stick on Open Posture for one second. I had Jordan Harbinger on the show, like I mentioned previously, and one of the things that we talked about is how to have an open posture naturally, because it's very important when you're making a first impression. So not have to think about having an open posture and just have one naturally.
Starting point is 00:22:14 So he taught us about something called the doorway drill. And essentially what that is is he put a post-enote on a door about eyesight level. And every time you walk through a door in your house, you then remember to be open, walk straight up, then over time you build that habit naturally. So do you have any other tips in terms of how to do these friend signals more naturally? Well, what I think you should do first
Starting point is 00:22:39 is number one, you do them all the time. You just don't realize you're doing. There's a lot of people come back and say, my gosh, I've been eyebrow flashing forever and I never realized it. So the first thing you want to do is realize what you're doing and say, you know what, I just eyebrow flashed. How did that feel to do a natural eyebrow flash?
Starting point is 00:22:59 And they say, okay, and they try to emulate that. And then you try to head tilt and a smile, and you try to emulate that. And then you try to head tilt and a smile, and you try to emulate what you feel naturally. So the first thing is to kind of recognize that you're using these signals, know what it feels like, and then practice using them. And then when it comes time to use them for real,
Starting point is 00:23:21 then it'll come naturally. So I did that with a lot of people, especially with I get a lot of tile-mester interviews. I didn't like those people, and if I would have walked in and not give those friends signals, they would have picked up foes signals, which that would have made it more difficult. So I had to go in there and just naturally do that. Yeah, and what are our faux signals? Faux signals are the furl brows, the eyes slits, mouth is teeth bearing, and that's what I call the urban skull. People that grow up in big cities walk through the city with an urban skull on to let the predators know that it's going to be tough to take advantage of.
Starting point is 00:24:05 And you know, one thing people forget is when they go into job interviews, it's a stressful situation, especially if it's your first job interview, your big job, you really want it. So how do you feel anxious when you feel anxious? That's a form of fight flight, which you have a tendency to show an urban scull. So when you walk into the job interview, you want to present a friendly face, but your body saying, this is fearful,
Starting point is 00:24:30 I need to show an urban skull, so you have to override that instinct, and you have to walk in and make sure you eyebrow flesh, you head tilt, and you smile. Because that will let the employer know that you're friendly and you're not a threat. So a lot of times you get that first wrong impression because it's a fearful situation
Starting point is 00:24:51 and your body doesn't naturally send out friends signals when you're afraid. Yeah, that makes complete sense. And I think it's so important for people to, even though this is like common sense, right? We all do these things naturally, but like you said, in situations like a job interview where we're so nervous, we're probably not thinking like, oh, I need to smile and have a head tilt and do an eyebrow flat. You're not thinking about that
Starting point is 00:25:12 because you're like, oh, I need to give them this experience, this skill, this, and you forget about your body language. And it's very important because people, communication is like, I think 70% body language or something like that. So it's very important to make sure that you learn that just as much as you learn to talk about your skills or experiences. That's why it's very important when you do online dating. I'm not against online dating. I think it has a place that is valuable,
Starting point is 00:25:39 but we have to go from the verbal and the written very quickly to the visual. That's where we are best at judging people. It's the visual. So you want to get right to the visual as quickly as you can to avoid a lot of complications. Number one complication is if you hear some of these voice, you have a tendency to conjure up a picture of them in your mind. If you see them long enough, then this picture develops. It's almost like, have you ever been on a telephone and you talked to somebody routinely on a telephone, you have a picture of what they're like,
Starting point is 00:26:14 that you live in your life and they're not like their voice at all. Yes. That's what you want to avoid when you're on internet dating. You want to make sure that you don't develop an idealized image of that person. And then when you do finally meet them, either Skype or in person, then it destroys that whole image of them in that kind of relationship. Who is this person? Yeah, I think that used to be such a big problem before like video skyping and things like that Or became so popular so many people used to get catfish. They had a whole show about it
Starting point is 00:26:50 So let's go to individual body parts I know that lips can say a lot about how somebody is feeling George senior bush had this famous quote read my lips and literally you could read people's lips So tell us about the different things that you can tell from somebody's lips. Well, lips are very important. First of all, I want to talk about as a lip bite. It's that when you when somebody bites their lip and what they're trying to do is keep their mouth shut. In other words, they have something to say, but they don't want to say it for whatever reason. I use it in my classroom quite a bit because if I'm lecturing I see a student biting their lip then I'll say, oh you've got something to say. And I said, well, how did you know? Well, you told me by what you did with your lips.
Starting point is 00:27:34 The second one is more intense and that is the lip compression. The lip compression says, I don't want to say something so badly. I'm going to actually clamp my lip shut so I don't say it. When you see that, you say, oh, you've got something to pay. You're afraid to say it. But how did you do that? Well, you're lit. I think one of the most important lip signals is the lip purse. I'm going to exaggerate it right now and that's our movement of your lips. It's not as great, but I just going to exaggerate it right now, and that's outward movement of your lips.
Starting point is 00:28:06 It's not as great, but I just want to exaggerate it now. What that means is the person you're talking to has already formed a negative sentence in opposition to what you just said. So if I said, and I often say this to my wife, she'll say it's your turn to pick the movie, right? That we go see, which means I've already picked out a movie.
Starting point is 00:28:29 You just got to figure out which one it is. So then I'll go through a litany of movies and I'll see lip purses, which means what? We're not seeing that movie. So when we see one movie, she's already preselected, of course, for me to choose, then you don't see the lip purses. If you ask your boss for something and they lip purse, we have a problem.
Starting point is 00:28:52 The key to this is like, when I was in the FBI, I used to have get resources to run the operations that I ran and some of the operations you look at cost benefits. So I'm explaining this to my supervisor, and I see right when we get to the money part, I feel that first. So the key is you wanna get that person to change their mind inside their mind
Starting point is 00:29:16 before they have a chance to articulate it, because if they articulate, no, and there's a psychological principle of consistency. When we say no, we wanna be consistent with no, and it's very difficult to change our mind. So I get to the topic of money, and I see the lip first, I go, boss, I'll bet you're thinking this is way too much money. But let me explain the cost benefit.
Starting point is 00:29:39 Let me explain this. Let me explain that why it is worth doing this operation. So I'm getting him to change his mind inside his mind. Yeah. Before he had the chance to come out and say no. This episode is sponsored by Video Husky. Two months ago I outsourced my video production to Video Husky and I couldn't be happier. I loved the service so much that I became an affiliate. With Video Husky, I get my own dedicated video editor and project manager, and I'm able to turn around about 8 videos a week.
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Starting point is 00:30:43 or head over to youngandprofiting.com for a demo or head over to young and profiting.com such video for 30% off your first month. That's excellent, excellent advice. I just want to replay that for my listeners. He's saying, if you see somebody start to purse their lips when you're giving something like numbers, so this is great for sales people, or if you're trying to get a promotion or whatever it is, you want to change their mind before they actually say it because once they say it, they set it in stone in their head and they want they don't want to go back on their words. So
Starting point is 00:31:14 very important thing to learn. Let's move on to the next body part. They say eyes are the windows of the soul. I had a guest chase Hughes who came on episode number eight. And he talks about bling grade, right? So that's something my my listeners are familiar with. The faster you blink, the less interested someone is in what you're saying. The slower they blink, the more interested they are in what you're saying. So do you have anything else in terms of the eyes and what we should look for in terms of if somebody's liking us or not liking us. Well, the first thing you have to do with all nonverbal cues is to get a baseline. So I'm going to ask you a few questions that you have no reason to lie to me about.
Starting point is 00:31:56 And then I'm going to count your eye blink rate. And then I'm going to ask you a hot button question. And then your eye blink rate is going to increase. Your eye blink rate increases with anxiety because when you fear getting caught in a lie, that triggers the fight flight response. And what happens is the water that's in your body gets shunted to your outside of your body in the form of sweat to help you cool down and survive. So what happens that leaves less water for your eyes to be lubricated. So what you have to do is increase your eye blink rate in order to keep your eyeballs lubricated. So that's the kind of anxiety. So what you want to do is look for increased eye blink rate would be anxiety. Or it could be a community for the first time. You're a little anxious.
Starting point is 00:32:44 Yeah. And so you should like switch the topic then if you see the fast eye blinking, is that the strategy? Like what's your strategy then? Well, I would move more than into the non, to the verbal aspect of this. It's once you know that I blink right there, anxious about something, we don't know if it's because they're excited to see you,
Starting point is 00:33:01 they don't want you to see you at all, they're threatened by you, we don't know that. So what you wanna do is use what I refer to as empathic statement. Empathic statements are probably the most powerful report building tool that you can have. And that is what you take that person,
Starting point is 00:33:19 what they said, how they feel or their physical appearance, and you use similar language and you just mirror it back to them. So on the elevator, I often see students that are very happy. So if they're very happy, I say, oh, so you must have had a good day or you must be having a good day. And they will come back and say, yes, I just passed a test that I studied hard for in path statement. So you study hard and it paid off.
Starting point is 00:33:48 What you're doing basically is you're making it all about them. And what you have to do is the basic construction of a empathic statement will be so you. And the reason I like people to say so you initially is because it makes it about the other person. Yes. Because it says, I know how you feel because I used to study hard and past tests. Well, they don't care what you did, anything about you. All they care is about them. If you make that conversation all about them, then they're going to like you because they
Starting point is 00:34:17 feel good because you're listening. Here's the secret of that. If every time you're with me, you feel good about yourself. The probability is you're going to want to see me again. And additionally, the probabilities, I won't even have to invite you to come see me again. You're going to find an excuse to come see me again to get that same good feeling. Yes, because again, his golden rule of friendship is, sorry, what's the golden rule of friendship is slipping my mind. You want people to like you, you make them feel good about themselves. Exactly. And that's what empathic statements do. I actually use empathic statements now.
Starting point is 00:34:52 I try to practice when I'm in the elevator at work because that's what I read in your book. You can literally just practice in the elevator. If somebody's just smiling, you could just say, so you look like you're having a great day, but you don't actually want to say, I believe you're having a great day. Why is that? Why don't you actually want to tell them directly what you think they are feeling? Because we all think the world revolves around us. And everything has to be about us. So if we extend ourselves and make it about the other person, then that person says, wow, somebody paid attention to me.
Starting point is 00:35:28 Somebody understands, somebody observes, somebody about me and made a comment. Therefore, I like that person because they're finally somebody's paying attention to me in my world. So that's the thing is you're getting out of your world and you're projecting empathy into another person's world, which makes people feel good. And the more we're supposed to do in life is make people feel good about themselves. And I like to go through life.
Starting point is 00:35:56 And every time I meet somebody, I like to make them think that was a person worth meeting, because I just feel that much better for having met the person. And that's kind of my goal now. Yeah, that's a very good goal. And I read a quote, I think it was somebody who was reviewing one of your books and they said, approach it not that you want to make people like you, but that you want to be a more likeable person.
Starting point is 00:36:19 So it's like, it's about you. It's not about forcing other people to like you. It's just about you being a better, more likeable person. That's more approachable, more empathetic, stuff like that. So there's nothing negative or manipulative about any of this. No, I mean, these are all things we do naturally. And because of the tech world and the younger folks know this, you're always on your iPhones or whatever thumb talk
Starting point is 00:36:42 and you're doing, then you're not looking at people, you're not exchanging conversation with people, so then it becomes very difficult for you to communicate with people. So all we're doing is kind of giving you a little catch-up course on how you become, how do you present yourself as though something should like you. It's not manipulating. It's your taking steps that most of it in my generation, we learned that because we didn't have all the technology. We had to actually go out across the street and get our friend and talk to them. So that's the difference between today's world and the world I grew up in.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Yeah, we have to try a little harder to learn body language because we don't get as much practice. We're always online, we're always chatting, we're always texting. We just don't get enough practice. So you've got to read the books, you've got to listen to people like Dr. Jack Schaefer. I would highly recommend his book, The Like Switch. Honestly, I've read it 10 times. It's an amazing, amazing book.
Starting point is 00:37:41 Okay, so let's move on to another real world example. Many of the listeners on Young and Profiting podcasts, they go to a million networking events, right? And sometimes we go to these parties and we're totally by ourselves. We don't have a plus one with us. How can we approach these situations? How can we tell who is open to make a new friend? What are the signals that other people give us to tell them that they're open for a conversation or to make a new friend? What are the signals that other people give us to tell them that they're open for a conversation or to be a new friend? You know, a really simple way to do this, look at people's feet.
Starting point is 00:38:12 We go into a large crowd, and I was always asked to go to a lot of embassy parties and talk to people, and of course my work, and how do you mingle with somebody to get information from them? Well, I discovered if you look at their feet, that's an indication of whether they're accepting additional people into their circle. So if the feet, if you have two people when their feet are face toe-to-toe, they're closed circle. They do not want to talk with you.
Starting point is 00:38:39 But if the two people have their feet outward and that leaves a little hole there in front of them so they're kind of slanting their feet in a V kind of formation, that means it's okay and they're accepting new people. So the rule of thumb is, if there's a place to put your feet, it's okay to meet. I love that, that's so good. And then something else that I wanted to share
Starting point is 00:39:04 with our listeners is the curiosity hook. So sometimes when someone shy, a good trick, if you're a shy person, is to wear something that's like a little bit outlandish to a party, like maybe a cool hat, and use that as a way for people to engage in a conversation with you. They call that a curiosity hook.
Starting point is 00:39:22 Could you explain that a little bit more and give some more examples? It's very powerful. We get people to talk to you. They call that a curiosity. Could you explain that a little bit more and give some more examples? It's very powerful. You get people to talk to you. So if you're a shy person and you want to make friends, the first thing you do is you can look at their feet. There's three people there and there's an opening to put your feet. You step in, you listen for a little bit and then they'll look at you and if you're wearing something that's kind of unique. It can be a unique piece of jewelry, it could be a sports logo of a team, it can be some unique accessory that you have and people say, oh that's interesting. So now what are they doing? They're what? They're approaching you actually. So you don't have to make that initial step.
Starting point is 00:40:04 They're coming to you and asking you about that unique thing that you have on you because curiosity is pretty powerful. It's a powerful way to get people to talk to you without you having to actually extend yourself. Exhibitor will have a big problem with this staff because they're always talking. But a lot of time introverts or if you're kind of leery about meeting somebody new, it's a perfect way to introduce yourself. Yeah. So I have a question from the audience. I thought was really interesting.
Starting point is 00:40:34 Kenneth Pierre says, can you ask him, what does a person's walk tell you about their personality? The way we look at it in the intelligence world, there are several things we look at. If people walk closer to the curb, they're more of a risk taker. If people walk closer to the building side of the street, then they're less of a risk taker. People that walk ahead of the crowd, So you have a group of people together, the person that's in the lead
Starting point is 00:41:07 is gonna be naturally set the pace and they're gonna be the leader of that group. And you also have the swagger and all those other things that young folks do that try to illustrate that they're unique and they're different. Yeah, that's really, really good. I think that people often tell me that when I'm walking around, I have a bitch face is what they say, but that's probably the urban scale that you were talking about
Starting point is 00:41:36 because I live in New York City. Absolutely, and I'll tell you quick story is that my wife was in the suburbs and I grew up in the city. So I walked around with my urban skull all the time. And then when I go out and see her or her friends from the state, well, why, Jack, is mean? And I don't know how you like him, you know, snap. I don't get afraid to talk to him
Starting point is 00:41:55 because he'll bite my head off, real. And she's always a nice guy. And then when she mentioned that to me, I thought about it and I said, yeah, I'm walking around with my city face on in the suburbs where it's not necessary to walk around with the urban scull. So that's really important for you now. When you want to give the right impression, you can consciously now do that without causing any concerns. Your dog is an important part of your family. Don't settle when it comes to their health.
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Starting point is 00:44:43 thing is if you're feeling a little depressed, if you just fake a smile, you get a little shot of endorphin, it'll make you feel better about you. And even though you're faking the smile, you still get that little shot of endorphin. So our bodies do pay attention to what we do. And if we're closed off, our minds are going to be closed off. Before aggressive stance, we're going to be aggressive. Oh, it's nice to have all these tools in your, in your like your friendship toolbox, your relationship toolbox, because then now you can choose what image you want to portray in what situation.
Starting point is 00:45:17 If I'm walking down a street in New York, and I don't want people bothering me, now you can intentionally put out the urban scowl. Then you can go inside your office and say, OK, it's a safe place for me to open up a little bit. So now you can intentionally make that transition. And a lot of people can't do that without understanding why and how they do the things they do as humans.
Starting point is 00:45:40 Yeah, I mean, I walk into my building at work. I just got off the subway. I definitely have my urban scale on. I don't want anybody talking to me. And then I walk into my building at work, you know, I just got off the subway. I definitely have my urban scale on. I don't want anybody talking to me. And then I walk into the building and what does the bodyguard say? Can't you give a smile? And I'm like, oh, I'm just walking into a working jerk.
Starting point is 00:45:56 But I've got to be more conscious, you know? You were picking up on that. You see how people do notice your appearance. Yeah. And it has a big impact on other people. So, you need to learn these skills. And you know what the beauty of this is? I'm not teaching you anything you don't already know. The book shows you how to recognize what you already do and then to use it in the appropriate situation. Yeah. So, let's move on to dating. You have a
Starting point is 00:46:26 told chapter in your book about the laws of attraction. How can we get somebody to like us more in a romantic way? Like what are the ways to do it? You were mentioning indoor friends, I know that has a lot to do with it. Could you just talk to us about your different laws of attraction? I'd love to hear about that. Well, one of my favorite laws is the laws of misattribution. In other words, when we are in a kind of a fearful situation, a situation that maybe is as slight impression of danger, some types, that we tend to associate that closeness with other people. So that will encourage closeness because we want to get together. It's like the band of brothers and the cops are more close because of the danger they face.
Starting point is 00:47:16 So what you want to do is emulate that is, I think on a first day, you should take something to a scary movie because that is going to set up that kind of situation. They did some reekers and they found out that couples that went into scary moves came out holding hands more and they were closer because of the sharing that trauma together. That's so interesting. I could totally relate. I know that every time me and my boyfriend watch a scary movie together, it ends up being a more romantic night
Starting point is 00:47:45 as I can explain it. But it all works in the other way. And that is when you run or exercise, you get the shot of endorphins. It's the runner's high. So you don't, you can't attribute that to any one specific thing. So what you do is the person that's there
Starting point is 00:48:03 gets the benefit of having that good feeling. So if you do is the person that's there gets the benefit of having that good feeling. So if you're a person of interest happens to be a runner, you can either run in the same area they are for proximity and frequency iteration or you can just be with them at the end of their run. And they're going to feel good about themselves and they're not going to know, they're not going to figure out the run maybe feel good. They're going to misattribute that good feeling to you and then they don't make them feel better about you. So those are different ways you can.
Starting point is 00:48:34 Yeah, the last one is like a little bit unethical, right? If you're trying to start a long-term relationship with someone and you show up every time they're done with the gym so they're thinking like, oh, I think I like them, but really they're just high off their workout. What's your counter argument to that? Like is that how you should build a long term relationship? You got to remember all these techniques that we've been talking about are for that initial meeting, right? After that initial meeting, that's when you look for, you make empathic statements, you look for common ground, and common ground is another very powerful way to get people to like you, because if it's like you me same thing. If we share the same things, we have a tendency to like one another.
Starting point is 00:49:26 So I'm always looking for common ground. And there's three ways to get common ground. There's contemporaneous, which means you're going to Western Illinois University. I'm a student of Western Illinois University. Therefore, we have something we share in common. You're from New York, I'm from New York. Okay, now, it's the second way to do that is temporal.
Starting point is 00:49:49 You're from New York and I've been to New York several times. So I could say over time, what do we have? We share that same experience. The other one is contemporaneous. You're from New York. My daughter's from New York. She lives in New York. So we have common ground through my daughter and that's called bicarious common ground.
Starting point is 00:50:12 So we share common ground through a third person. So there's different ways you can look at common ground. And once you have common ground, people have a tendency to like you because they like people who share the same things that they do. Yeah, people like people who are similar to like you because you stay like people who share the same things that they do. Yeah, people like people who are similar to them and familiar to them. That's a really important thing. It's always super helpful when you meet somebody new to try to figure out like, what do we have in common?
Starting point is 00:50:37 Because it just bonds you together more so. So once we're in a relationship, let's say we do all these tactics, we're dating somebody new, we get into a relationship, what's the inevitable that happens, like a bad argument, right? I know you have excellent tips when it comes to diffusing arguments, reducing friction in relationships. Can you share some of that with us? Yeah, the first thing you want to do is you want to provide that person that maybe mildly angry with you
Starting point is 00:51:07 You want to provide them with an explanation Because when we're angry our world is not in sync Something's not wrong. We can't make sense of our world So if I do something and my personal interest is upset is because Something I did doesn't fit with her image of me, or image of the world, or image how our relationships could be. So she's not a sink, so then we become frustrated.
Starting point is 00:51:32 Restoration is just a form of anger, a mile form of anger. What I'm gonna do is say, oh, the reason I did this is because, and then you explain the reason, and then the other person goes, oh, I get it, that's why I did it. Now my world is back in what? Sync and I understand my world.
Starting point is 00:51:50 And I do that with when I arrest somebody, why are you putting the cuff on me? Why are you putting the cuff on you because of these reasons? Oh, okay, officer safety in this and it's policy. Oh, okay, that makes sense so they're no longer angry. So what answers? Somebody is a little more than mildly angry. This is where we have problems.
Starting point is 00:52:09 And there's a very simple solution that's called the anger cycle. So when we're angry, we go into the fight flight, triggers a fight flight mechanism, and what that does is it cuts off our logical processing. We are, when we're angry, we are not logically processing information.
Starting point is 00:52:27 So the last thing you want to do is number one, try to rationalize with an angry person. The second thing you don't want to do is put fuel on the fire. But what you do want to do is allow that person to event. So here's what initially happens. They're angry. And then what you want to do is, you get them done being angry at first, you get kind
Starting point is 00:52:49 of like, oh, I'm done with my initial venting. I'm done saying, well, I'm angry. So you see that little relaxation. And right then you want to insert it in path statement. So for example, if I'm TVY and my wife has three kids at home and I'm teething why her temporary duty for two weeks and she's pulling double duty and I come home. I say, Hi honey, I'm home. I'm expecting a warm hug in the kids. That's not what happens. She goes, why you were off party and you were off having nice dinners and everything.
Starting point is 00:53:22 I'm at home pulling double duty. So she's angry. So what I'll say is, oh, so you were overwhelmed with all the work you had to do when I was gone. So that's just an empathic statement explaining what her situation is. So you think things will calm down then, right? No, they won't. She says, well, he finally gets it.
Starting point is 00:53:42 What happens? There's a tendency to be more venting. And by the way, when you were going those two weeks, I missed those Wednesday night outings with my girlfriends to talk about normal stuff. Get away from the kids while you babysit. And I wasn't able to do that. So little relaxation, another empathic statement, so you're misgoing out with your friends. little relaxation, another empathic statement. So you're misgoing out with your friends. It goes, well, yeah, I'm misgoing out with my friends. And you get more venting. But what you're doing is allowing that person to vent and vent without what? Feeling that fire, throwing fuel on that fire. And then you come over the top where they're just done. That's pretty funny. And
Starting point is 00:54:21 certainly what I call a presumptive statement or a presumptive course of action, which that person is difficulty refusing. Okay. In my situation, I would say, well, I'll gather the kids up, take them over to mom's house, you go out and take a bubble bath or something, and then when I get back, we'll go out and have a nice dinner because you deserve it. How are you going to say no? So proposing like a solution like that?
Starting point is 00:54:45 Yeah, you propose a solution that they have a very difficult time saying no to. God, nobody's thinking. Wait a minute, you're not going to get off that age. Right? So what should you take them back into the anchor cycle and say, oh, so you think you deserve a little bit more compensation for what you went through over the last two weeks. Yes, I do. And then how about a day at the spa and I'll take care of the care. So essentially to boil it down for everyone, you want to try to get people to vent using empathetic statements. And then you're going to propose a solution that they cannot refuse.
Starting point is 00:55:21 Or have a very difficult time refusing. I have a very difficult time refusing. Or have a very difficult time refusing. Yeah, that sounds like really great advice. It's kind of interesting because several of my students came back and said they saved a lot of relationships that way using the anger cycle. It really works, yeah, it does work. Yeah, I can't wait to try that out at home because I think I could avoid a lot of conflicts.
Starting point is 00:55:48 If I employ those strategies, yeah, well, it's like somebody came into my office once my one of my coworkers, I was working a big case in the FBI and she came in and she's very upset with me, calling me names, she decorated her expressions quite a bit. And instead of me defending myself, I said, in a path of statements, so you're angry at something because I did something wrong. Well, yeah, and she gets very angry more venting. And I say, oh, so because I wasn't around to give you a briefing, so you could write the paperwork and send it to headquarters. And that makes you
Starting point is 00:56:24 look bad. She goes, yeah, that's exactly what you're doing. You're doing stuff and not telling me and I'm in charge of the paperwork. So we get over the hump, she's done. I go, then why don't we meet every day at five o'clock in the afternoon and I'll brief you. She says, okay, that was the end of that. Wow.
Starting point is 00:56:42 That could have been a very dangerous situation if I was to go on the defensive. Exactly. So you don't want to go on the defensive and start giving like, well, I did this because of that. And I did this because of that. You just want to listen, listen, listen, listen. And then propose a solution that they can't refuse.
Starting point is 00:56:59 That's an excellent way to defuse arguments. I'm definitely going to try to put that into play. We have a really interesting question from Christopher Nesbitt. He says, can you ask about the frequency and speed of movements and what it says about someone? Well, when people go quickly up the stairs, take two steps ahead of them. Well, I guess it's just he's just asking about the speed of any movement. Maybe it's like shaking your hands too much, shaking your leg. I need to buy there so many things that you're going to that. Oh, really? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:33 Because what if you're naturally a nervous person? What if you have metabolism? What if you have, you're, you're, you're, yeah. Yeah, so it's not, it's not cut and dry like some of the other stuff. No, I'm going to tie it. If you see somebody walking up the stairs two steps at a time, they're very energetic. Yeah, you know, they're they want to engage. Yeah, Kristen Sherry-Assin is on this topic. She was asking is body language universal because you you just said there could be a lot of things at play with that. So is body language universal or does it depend on someone's personality? Most body language with the exception of the handshake is universal. I've done a lot of research
Starting point is 00:58:13 in this area and I believe it's universal. I work with a lot of people from all over the world. Everybody eyebrow flashes. Everybody head tilt. everybody smiles, everybody thinks they're the center of the universe. And if you want, like you're doing now, if you're head nodding, if you want to increase people's output of speech, you just head nod. So if you're shy on a first date and you just want that other person to keep talking, so what are you going to do? You just head nod because we're in a turn taking society. And that means that's head nodding is a signal that says keep talking. It's your turn. Yeah. So my last question, we're running up on time. So I want to end the episode with some actionable advice. The first question I'm going to ask you is, how do you get people
Starting point is 00:59:03 to do more of what you want? To get them to do favors for you, I think the love, there's some love. Yes, yes. I would love for you to talk to us about that because I think this is something that our listeners can take away right away and put into action. One of the things you can do is when we do things for other people, you say, the other person says, yeah, don't worry about it. You're welcome. Don't worry about it.
Starting point is 00:59:39 What you want to say is, I know you do the same for me. So if you do a favorite for me, and I'll tell you instead of saying, thank you, I would say, I know you do the same for me. And that's that's up that reciprocity because people want to reciprocate in like kind or like manner of what people do for us. So that's one way we can do it. Another way we can do it is ask people to do it to favor. Because how do you feel when you do a favor for somebody? You feel good, don't you? And then that goes back to the golden rule of friendship. Because how do you feel when you do a favor for somebody? You feel good, don't you? And then that goes back to the golden rule of friendship. If I can make you feel good about you, you're gonna like me.
Starting point is 01:00:16 So I'm gonna ask you to do me a favor and if all I have to say, can you do me a favor? And that sets up your willingness or predisposes you to do it. And here's the irony, I think we can end with this. The irony of all this is if you like somebody, you're going to do anything you can for them. It's just the way humans are. It's kind of ironic, isn't it? I put you ahead of all other people. I make you the focus of my attention. Everything's about you, but in the end, you're gonna do me favors or things just because you like me. Yeah, and people like to help other people. So if you ask them, if you say favor,
Starting point is 01:00:53 they'll wanna do it more, which is, so you wouldn't think that, but that's the truth. Yeah, that came from Ben Franklin, by the way. It's called the Ben Franklin Effect. Yeah, yeah, you're right. You're wrong, girl. So that actually made me think of a personal story I want to share with my listeners about how I use this law. And essentially, what I like to do is I like to introduce people to each other.
Starting point is 01:01:14 So I like to take somebody that I know and give them an opportunity with somebody else that I know. So a good example is what I did for Jack. I introduced him to Jordan Harbinger because I wanted him to get that exposure on that show and I had that connection. And Jordan could mutually benefit because he's got an expert like Jack on a show. So I put those connections together. Now hopefully, well, it already happened.
Starting point is 01:01:35 Jordan started like sponsoring my podcast, right? After that. So it's like, people just like to do favors for people who do favors for them. And the cycle just keeps continuing. So I would definitely recommend one of the things that you can do is to expand your network that way by introducing your connections that don't know each other
Starting point is 01:01:51 to each other and give them different opportunities. And then people will be more likely to introduce you to their friends or give you opportunities because you did it for them and they're wanna return the favor. Yeah. So Jack, one of the last questions that I ask everybody on this show is, what is your secret to profiting in life?
Starting point is 01:02:13 And this doesn't have to be financial. It can be professionally. What is your secret to profiting in life? Well, if you find something you like, pursue it with fervor and passion because it will pan out for you. And it goes back to like when I was eight years old, I always wanted to be a writer. And that's one thing that I actually wrote down on a piece of paper. And I pursued that with fervor and passion. And it was quite a while before I became even had limited success. So without that fervor and passion, it would have never happened.
Starting point is 01:02:48 And if you do something that you enjoy, you're not gonna work a day in your life. Yeah, it's true. And people will like you and you're gonna have good relationships. Totally, that's like me and my podcast. Every time I do your work on it, it's just fun. It doesn't even feel like work
Starting point is 01:03:04 because it's my true passion. So you have a book coming out in October. You have a new book. I can't wait. I had no idea. You told me before the show about this new book. Tell us about your new book coming out. And what are the key things you're going to cover in that book?
Starting point is 01:03:19 And we're definitely having you back on the show. You'll be my first guest to come on three times. Well, the new books called the Truth Detector. In other words, we want to get to the truth before people have a chance to lie. And it's a technique we use in the intelligence world and law enforcement called elicitation. We get people to reveal secret information about themselves without them knowing they're even revealing secret information. So when people lie,
Starting point is 01:03:45 they have a tendency to do all those things that people cover their lives with. Well, we're going to get at the truth before they have a chance to lie. Maybe one quick example. Sure. My wife and I were looking at houses to buy and we found one house, but a couple of we asked a couple of neighbors and they said, we might have a high water level and the place is due to flooding. So we went down into the basement and looked around and it's all remodeled. So we couldn't tell whether it was flood damage or not. So I made a simple statement, gee, they sure fixed the place up since the flood. And the real address is, well, oh, yeah, they did. And I thought, aha, it does flood. Now, if I was to ask him directly, does this flood? I doubt whether
Starting point is 01:04:32 he would have given me a direct answer. That's such a great piece of insight. I cannot wait until this book comes out. Like I said previously, I've listened to the like switch so many times. I would highly encourage you, guys, you can find it everywhere to get that book. It's one of the most transformational books I've ever read in my life. And, you know, Jack, we appreciate you so much. If you want to get some of the basics
Starting point is 01:04:55 in terms of likeability and first impressions, check out my first episode with Jack. It's my first episode, but it's actually an awesome piece of content. I'm sure everybody will enjoy it. So go back and listen to that one. And like I said, make sure you go get his book, I'll put the link in our show notes.
Starting point is 01:05:11 And the other place they can get tidbits of information is I blogged for Psychology Today magazine. So if they just put Psychology Today and my name, then my blog will pop up. And I have a lot of things we talk about today, our little blogs in the on that site. Awesome. I'll also put that link in the show notes. Thank you so much, Jack. I really, really enjoyed this chat. And I hope you have a great day. Thanks so much for everything that you've done for me. I really appreciate it. I really, really
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