Tells

You're giving out clues that are invisible to you, but not to others. Find out about your "tells" in this mini podcast.

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Transcript

Tells

According to a poker playing website a “tell” is any habit, behavior, or physical reaction that gives other players more information about your hand. And there're countless “tells” outside of poker that are interesting to know about and give clues to our underlying beliefs.

Here are a few that I’ve noticed over the years:

The person who frequents “all you can eat buffets” or loads their plate to the hilt (Thanksgiving excluded) has an underlying belief that there isn’t enough to go around. They have an underlying belief in scarcity and lack.

A person who constantly displays visible rigidity in their face and body has more rules than the average bear. Everybody has rules but these folks have ones most of us haven’t even thought of yet. They tend to develop arthritis early and lean toward constrictive diseases that play havoc with their digestive organs and heart.

The person with the perpetual “shit eating grin” (think actor Jack Black) has a penchant for overindulging (food, drugs, sex, alcohol, partying) and have an appetite to try everything. They tend to be talented dreamers with both feet in the clouds and every now and then have a passing notion of reality.

I’m sure you have your own list of tells. If the only objective was to find tells in other people, we 'd have lots of information about others and very little about ourselves.

What are your tells?

What are you advertising to other people all the time that you're totally unaware of? What habit sits beneath the surface that causes your telling behavior?

A start is to start giving credence to what people have been telling you for your entire life –  labels you've been ignoring under the umbrella of “they don’t know what they are talking about.” Yes they do!

For example, if multiple people suggest that you reduce or stop your alcohol consumption, it’s a pretty good bet that you are medicating and masking some pain you have yet to face and need to move through. They aren’t members of the temperance league. They've witnessed enough of your quacking behavior to recognize a duck that needs to get off the surface of the pond and dive deeper.

I’m not big into labels, but I think they are useful in this context. How have you been labeled? What labels do your family, friends, lovers and casual acquaintances have for you? Pay attention.

I'll agree that labels are limiting, but what are they telling you about your patterns that are on automatic pilot that need adjusting?

There's always a pattern beneath a tell. It’s an automatic stimulus/response that has a life of its own.

So get curious today about your tells and their causative patterns. It's the first step to outgrowing them.

All the best,

John