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Eye-contact is easy enough to grasp intuitively:
when you meet eyes with someone, how does that
gaze make you feel? Are you picturing yourselves at
dinner for two with candle-light and easy conversation, or doe feel like you’re on the bus trying to avoid
the stare of some wild haired person whose constant
mumbling to themselves includes the phrase, ‘just
touch it, it won’t bite you.’ How we react to eye-contact can be judged by body language. In a bar, it can
nearly impossible to have a straight-forward conversation. Body language opens up more unspoken
conversation than most thought possible. How far
away people stand, how inviting of physical contact
they are, and if they look directly at you are great
indications of their level of trust and interest in you as
a person.
Trust, however, is difficult to build while using only
body language. Most people I know reduce the level
of their conversation to something a little more than
small talk in order to feel o