Your Face

"Communication is an intellecutal act of love". This past Tuesday was the first time I heard this quote from watching a video in class. I thought there is so much truth in that statement that I had to memorize it. Wouldn’t you agree? I don’t know why I suddenly got reminded of my Statistic professor who quoted “Statisticians are mean lovers”. Now I don’t know how much truth is in this statement…

Anyways, it was even more interesting to hear the speaker talk about "three faces" we use: 1) closed face 2) Neutral face and 3) open face. Well, ever since then I have definitely been paying attention to what face I make when out in public which is most of the time. For those of you who know where I've worked for the longest time and still do, it's best to have the closed face, huh? Of course, I'm kidding about that because my goal is to have an open face at all times if life circumstances allow especially after knowing that the only ingredient of communication is an open face. The speaker in the video I watched in class also mentioned that our faces control our voices. That's so true, isn't it? He also continued talking about faces that are likable which were mostly those open faces. Now, we all know that we can't always have that open face, right? What if you’re walking down the street late at night and you see a strange person walking by so obviously you won't have your "open face" or at least I hope not. Therefore, smiling is a good communication tool as long as we use it appropriately and genuinely. One last quote that I really liked from the video and would like to share with you all is that, "likeability wins and the key to likeability is the open face". So my advice to you is to smile, smile, smile with your open face AND you never know who falls in love with your smile! :p

P.S. Can you find which one of the pictures has a "neutral face" also referred to as the face of the dead?