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You need to care about how others are feeling. Understanding what it is they are feeling and why, using mainly non-verbal cues, is the hard part.
Fuck what others think, though. You really don't wanna get wrapped up in that.
I studied social engineering, it helped much to understand reaction. People have lost of reaction and emptions linked to it. It helped
Can you give an example? I don't quite understand.
Like people being anxious. In social engineering they describe the symptoms of anxiousness. Body language is a great thing to learn too, helped simulate. https://www.social-engineer.com/dispelling-body-language-myths for example I read only 1-2 and seem cohérent. Each body language is a weak indicator, enough weak indicator and you got a clue on the mental state of people