WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT BODY LANGUAGE
It is difficult to overestimate the power of body language. Those who pretend to be experts throw around figures such as 75 percent 85 percent, even 90 percent when they try to define how much of a message is communicated non-verbally rather than verbally. It actually differs from context to context and individual. There is no fixed number or even an average. The bottom line is the power of even the very best verbal communication pales in comparison to the power of body language and non-verbal communication. Stinky People. They bother me. I confess it, here and now. I'm "smell sensitive." I can tell someone what they had for lunch, whether they had alcohol, were near a cigarette, and whether I can stay within meters of them because of their body's scent. So at the conscious and probably non-conscious level you and I are aware to a greater or lesser degree of scent, and it causes us to form opinions about people. But sometimes all of this happens at the non-conscio