First impressions mean a lot. When you meet someone new, you’re probably trying to get a feel for who they are, and whether they’re trustworthy. It all comes down to noticing behaviors.

Human behavior expert Chase Hughes explains how to read someone instantly. “Everyone wears some kind of a mask…a persona that I put onto the world,” he says in a YouTube video.

Getting underneath that mask is what truly reveals who someone is and what they’re all about. Hughes explains that people build these masks to conceal shame.

The #1 question to instantly read someone

According to Hughes, there is one important question to keep in mind when trying to read someone: “What does this person want me to feel about them, and what do they want me to notice?”

Hughes notes that this is the beginning of understanding why someone builds a mask........

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