When I went to college in the mid 90s, I had a very good friend I met in my freshman dorm. He was an Armenian young man, strong as an ox with an unmatched resolve. He was also incredibly smart at anything he put his mind to. However, the one thing I learned from him more than anything else is how to read people.
My friend had a gift for it. He seemed to know things before they happened. He was like Vito Corleone telling his Consigliore Tom exactly what every gangster would do before they did it. He opened up my mind to a whole other world of communication I had no idea existed. It consisted of reading others body language, responses, and actions. It was honestly the single most important thing I learned in my two years at the University of Maryland. It is a skill I have been developing ever since.
