Body talk

A friend told me about The Boy with Tape on his Face a couple of weeks ago.

As well as finding the video very funny, I also find it fascinating how powerfully he is able to communicate without the use of words.

They do say that in face-to-face situations our words have far less impact than our tone of voice or body language.

In this video, he has taken away his ability to communicate at all with words or tone of voice. He only has his body language.

And yet, he is able to convey what he wants to his volunteer assistants, and also the humour to his audience, incredibly powerfully purely with his body language and some musical support.

He would probably have the same impact all over the world, without being able to speak one word of the language of his audience.

Supposedly we form first impressions of people we meet within seconds of meeting them, usually before we have even spoken.

What first impression are you creating with your body language?