Reading someone and adjusting the way you communicate with them is one of the strongest interpersonal advantages anyone can have, and it turns out millennials can do it better than anyone else.
Author and profiling consultant Dan Korem has trained tens of thousands of people in “snapshot profiling” and found that millennials between the ages of 19-to-26 have a 90 percent accuracy rate, the highest of any group.
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In an interview with Red Alert Politics, the author said it shouldn’t be considered unusual that young people can make better instant judgements of people once they’re trained in the system, because they don’t have much life experience to override what they’ve learned.
In fact, interrogators in Israel usually peak at 26 years old, according to his research.
“Training people how to record behavioral traits on the fly in spontaneous situations is important,” said Korem. “It allows them to profile anyone so you can better communicate with them the first time.”
Korem recalled how a 17-year-old woman from Texas was able to use snapshot judgements to better communicate with the middle-aged employees at her father’s company, who had reputations of being loners during downtime and lunch breaks. Reading his body language, she influenced him to get more involved and build camaraderie with his coworkers.
Being able to influence people strictly on tone proves it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Now if only some of the presidential candidates could learn that lesson.
