3:09 The impact of moving from North Dakota to a little Italian fishing village as a child

Learning to read body language

Testing comfort zone

Being an �outsider�

4:56 His experience of seeing the paintings of Rembrandt for the first time

Impacted by also visiting the Dachau concentration camp and the Anne Frank house in Amsterdam

Visiting the Rijksmuseum

His mother�s artistic background

Drawn to the personalities in the paintings

10:21 Transitioning into his career of facial decoding

Being a Norweigen American

Ghost writing a book for a president of a consulting firm

Reading an article about how we are �intuitive emotional decision-makers�

The business world needed to know about this neuroscience

Charles Darwin on how our faces best communicate our emotions

15:25 Using facial decoding in sport

Working with the US Olympic diving team

Correlation between smiling and poor performance

The power of a muted form of anger

Identifying personalities in tennis

19:34 The role of emotions in sport

Explore emotional compatibility within a team

Do more individual work if the individual has high levels of anxiety

Facially decoding during penalty shoot outs

Coaches will benefit from knowing how to facially decode

23:08 How facial coding reveals a person�s character

Research by Paul Ekman, the modern Charles Darwin: there are 23 expressions in the face that reveal 7 emotions

�Every emotion has a positive and negative side to it�

26:32 Why humans take more from sensory than verbal signals

We have ancient brains

We are visually-oriented

Living in a very visual age, e.g. Netflix, social media.

The business world focuses more on words

29:00 How to determine if somebody is trustworthy or not

There�s no signal in the face that indicates trust

Five of the emotions in the face are negative

The absence of trust is contempt

Look out for happiness and positive consistency

32:41 Anticipation can�t be facially decoded

Robert Pulchik�s Colour Wheel of Emotions

�Anticipation is theoretical � nothing has happened yet�

Constructive energy from anger

34:52 Genuine vs artificial emotions

Sadness and fear are the most genuine emotions

Happiness is easy to be artificial, e.g. in advertising

Look out for the �rhythm� of the smile

Using emotions to indicate engagement

39:14 How to spot a liar

We most often lie to ourselves, to feel good about ourselves and to create allies

�Of Truth� essay by Francis Bacon

Analysing Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal

Lance Armstrong used anger to lie about doping

The key is to look out for patterns

43:43 Reading people�s faces when they�ve convinced themselves about something

Self-righteousness is a key motivator � �Better to be the duke than the fool�

Reading Lance Armstrong�s facial expressions in the Oprah interview

47:01 How can body language help enhance our understanding of someone�s facial expressions?

Much less categories of body language, as opposed to facial expressions

Cultural differences

Body language is easier to manipulate than facial expressions

Observing presidential debates

49:08 �Thin slicing� concept in psychology

George Orwell: �At 50, everyone has the face he deserves�

We all have signature expressions

Pain vs pleasure

55:26 Can we trust Joe Biden from his recent inauguration speech?

He is fundamentally different to Trump

A straightforward character with a �true� smile

Consider his fortitude and resolution

Think about the emotions that aren�t there, e.g. anxiety or disgust

1:00:48 His observations of Trump�s characteristics

Like Nixon, Trump was very isolated. For Trump, it was his ego that isolated him.

Consider Trump�s childhood which had very little Mother-Son time together

The rising of the chin indicates disgust, aka Action Unit 17, which is anger, disgust and sadness

1:07:33 What attracts people to Trump?

He�s a good marketer, learnt from Roy Cohn

His messaging is simple, which creates a broader net of supporters

Use of superlative language and repetition

Likeness to a successful propagandist

Fox News formula of fear and anger

1:12:51 How Barack Obama�s face changed over the course of his presidency

The joyful face with authentic smile when he won

By the time he left, �rubbery� lower face from the anger and disgust built in him

1:15:15 The emotions we�re bad at spotting in others

Fear and contempt

Analysing Natalie Portman and Frank Sinatra

�Emotions are contagious, we almost don�t want to see fear in others, because we�re more fearful than we�d like to imagine�

Lack of emotional literacy

1:19:45 The role of contempt

Very attitudinal emotion

Anger and contempt is scorn, like in Prince and Bill Gates in the early days

Contempt is often combined with happiness

1:23:18 How to start developing your emotional EQ

As a business leader, you�re the public face of the company

�People don�t dance to the words, they dance to the music�

1:28:14 Having an emotional goal

�We�re all in sales�

Identify what emotions you need to succeed at your role

Risks happen when we say too much

Focus on building the connection, not on the fear

Pride is a combination of anger and happiness

1:33:43 Analysing Mona Lisa�s face

The tepid, sneering smile

Mona Lisa had a social standing, whilst Da Vinci did not

Anger in the left eye

Its fame is partly due to the location, and the press it received after being stolen in 1911 which increased its value

1:39:14 Teaching children facial coding from a young age

Through art and photography

From law to consultancy, it�s needed in any line of work

1:41:29 Is it possible for someone to not show any emotion?

Psychopaths still show emotion � just inappropriate emotion

Lack of emotion means it doesn�t matter to the person

1:44:39 How can we master fear?

�Relaxed muscles travel faster than tight muscles�

Envision a successful outcome

1:47:10 The future of facial recognition in technology

The danger when in the wrong hands

The technology now has up to 95% accuracy of a person

Facial coding in China

Face crime in George Orwell�s 1984