Visual Thin Slicing

My sisters and I used to play the Biography game when we were younger. We would go to the airport to watch all the people coming and going and make up stories about who they were, where they were going to or coming from, what they did for a living, what their families were like, what interesting little secret they were hiding, etc. We inferred all of this just by looking at them, and we evaluated each other’s biographies on a pass / fail basis, and of course for creativity! Sound familiar? It should. We do it each and every day whether we realize it or not, and it’s what our clients, customers, employers, employees, and complete strangers are doing to us every day. It’s called thin slicing* and you should know how to use it to your advantage. When applied corre View the rest of this article