Your face is a mask, a lens or filter through which you experience the world. In physiognomy, a person's facial imprint serves primarily as a filter for inner and outer emotional input. How emotions are experienced depends on the pre-existing temperamental imprints of the person. For example, when reading faces, we call certain features "wrathful" because they imply an innate program or tendency to transmute emotions like sadness into anger instinctively. As an evolutionary self-preservation measure - these programs activate during the stage of pre-awareness, or before consciousness can validate their usefulness in a given situation. Whether this is then internalized or externalized depends solely on this imprint and other details. Most people therefore "fall into" their most likely emotional state and just roll with it - for the lack of a better expression. Externalized implies hostile attitudes towards the world, internalized implies hostile attitudes towards the self. Both destructive programs. Wrath is ignition, anger burns through static negative emotional states like helplessness or sorrow. But it burns out quickly as well. With this in mind, when you understand, quite literally, "where someone is coming from", it becomes a rather basic exercise to guess their behaviors according to their physiognomy. A master at work therefore understands that the default state of all humans is to fall victim to their temperamental imprints, whether that be explosive, dismissive, passive, pessimistic, melancholic, etc. When you see this in action in practical reality, it's really not a long stretch (and certainly not pseudoscience) to assume that pre-existing attitudes will almost always directly drive behaviors. Physiognomy gives us every clue we need to discern a person's character under duress - it's easy to know how people will behave when faced with negative, uncomfortable or threatening environments. While I try to be tolerant and open to all types of characters, I judge this part quite strictly when it comes to people - and it has never let me down. ![[IMG_9553.jpeg]]