Ed Mylett Reveals Father's Alcoholism Forced Him to Read People at Age Four

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"I never knew as a little boy which dad was going to come through the front door at night. And so unlike most kids who would run up and hug dad, I would observe dad when he came home. I'd look at his physiology, I'd look at his eyes, his face, his lips. I'd listen to what his first few words were. And I think since I was about a 4-year-old little boy, I was sort of through that unfortunate circumstance in my family I developed this intelligence of being present and really being with someone."

Ed Mylett disclosed that his father's decade-long battle with alcoholism shaped one of his core skills as an interviewer and communicator. Rather than greeting his father normally, Mylett learned to read micro-expressions and vocal cues at age four to assess his father's emotional state, a survival mechanism that became a foundational intelligence for his career.