Face Reading of Bode Miller, Outrageous Olympic Skier

Mega-talented people fascinate me. You, too? One great thing about them is that the deeper your perception, the more individualistic and fascinating they become.

Reading today’s Washington Post, I was about to toss the Sports Section into my “Save for husband” pile when something about Bode Miller’s photo caught my eye.

I didn’t do face reading on him, not at first, because face reading is a choice, not a compulsion. (You knew that, right? The most common question asked by newbies goes, “I’m scared to read faces. Once you start, you can’t stop. Isn’t that so?”) But then….

Why do face reading on Bode Miller?

The first thing about him that caught my eye was the lack of glamour. Usually sports figures are photographed in action, showing their amazing stuff. Or there will be an interview photo. And if the sports celeb isn’t caught doing a Tiger Woods, or doping, etc., the quality of self-assurance will be enough to catch anyone’s eye.

Yet here was a picture of someone who looked normal and, even, inwardly complicated. As part of the story, by reporter Barry Svrluga, I read this quote from the quirky Mr. Miller and my (inner) jaw just dropped. These were the most spiritually fascinating words I ever had heard from any athlete, any game, any time, anywhere:

“One of the things that’s most important to me about skiing and about my legacy — if I would call it that — that I leave behind is racing for the pure enjoyment of racing fast and not getting too tangled up in the results of the outcomes,” Miller said.

“Obvously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you’re proud of and that you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

“I think that’s particularly important in the big events, in moments where you’re really tested, where everyone has their expectations on you and evberyone has their idea of what you should and shouldn’t be doing.

“At that point it’s really important to exercise your right as an individual, and the right that you’ve earned by training your whole life, and execute the plan that you want to do rather than what you think everyone else tells you to do.”

Reading the face of the expectable Bode

Certain face reading attributes are just what you would expect for that kind of athlete. Others are definitely not. So let’s start with the more expectable gifts, ones that further an athletic career in this type of endurance sport.

For background on the 5,000-year-old form of energetic literacy known as physiognomy, check out The Power of Face Reading, or my two other books on this topic, Read People Deeper or Wrinkles Are God’s Makeup: How You Can Find Meaning in Your Evolving Face. All offer practical ways to use the system of Face Reading Secrets(R).

And here’s another photo to add fun to your face reading. Or use this Face Reading Photo Link to open our first photo in a separate window. Pull on the edges to enlarge, and then read away.

Face Reading Item #1: Priority Area III

What is it? Comparing the three lengths of Bode’s face — hairline to bottom of eyebrows, eyebrows to bottom of nose, nose to chin, the third of these lengths is greatest.

The talent: Down to earth, practical way of relating to life. Noticing what is real, versus hyped.

The potential challenge: Stubbornly refusing to participate in the parts of a sport that do seem to him like hype? Bode is, after all, a man who abandoned his ski team in a former contest. “He won the 2008 World Cup overall championship while training and trraveling on his own in a private motor home, proving to himself –and to the outside world — that he did not need the team’s support.”

Face Reading Item #2: Wide jaws

What is it? Bode’s beard frames it nicely, outlining that very wide hinge-place to the side of his mouth, slaloming up just a bit.

The talent: Exceptional physical endurance.

The potential challenge: Stubborn? You think?

Tomorrow we’ll move into Face Reading other interesting characteristics, exploring the more surprising face reading items on the fascinating face of Bode Miller.