hey everyone

I want to start reading some books related to psychology/life skills. Psychology books as in stuff like how to read body language, not for poker but human body language in general and stuff like understanding human behaviour. Also life skills books such as "how to win friends and influence people" by dale carnegie.

Best books for psychology/human behaviour/bodylanguage? I want something like explaining human body language - stands with a wide stance because they're being defensive/confident etc.

Im interested because its just useful in life and really interesting. Being able to understand people is such a useful skill. in poker and life.

Cheers

Me too!

Alan pease - Body language

that looks pretty good i will check it out. thanks for the recommendation.

Any other books worth checking out?

check out power of habit by charles duhig.


A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.

Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.

An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.

What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives.

They succeeded by transforming habits.

In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation.

Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.

At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work.

Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

anything by dale carnegie is great.

this book seems very interesting,

reviews and amazon are positive

i think ill be ordering this

this is exactly what I need.

I want to transform myself so I'm a social butterfly, expert conversationalist, expert body language reader, be more motivated, ladies man, less lazy, more productive and organized, be less sensitive/more emotional stable, "alpha" "life of the party" kind of guy, persuasive, etc etc etc.

so just take a hit of cocaine everyday and you will be everything that was written above.

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if that worked, i'd probably do it.

for the ladies man check out this guys blog
http://heartiste.wordpress.com/
theres some gold in there if you look good (body language alot of do's and dont's ). Im not a big fan of that whole pua community so dont really agree with everything he writes tho. But that is the key with alot of books, you can get valuable information out of it if you read it right. If you read one part taht doesnt seem right and discard the rest of the information of it then you are doing it wrong.

Reading books can help but in real life, it's either you have it or you don't. The earlier you accept who you truly are the better off you'll be. You will be a lot happier.

And don't operate under the state of denial. You might think your 'this or that' but a majority of people can smell the bull**** a mile away.

I can smell you're up to something right now honestly.

Hahahahaha

Most of this can't/won't be accomplished by reading books. The only way you're going to improve in many of these facets is by developing a large social circle and interacting frequently.

Your sarcasm detector seems to be off today.