3 Reasons Why Happiness Is Not Enough
Popular movies and books lead people to believe spies are coerced to work for the U.S. government. To be successful, the FBI agent resorts to either sheer force or extortion to goad the foreign spy to be cooperative. Once beaten into submission, the free world...
5 Effective Ways To Overcome Setbacks In Life
I had been assigned to my first Field Office for less than one year when I was unexpectedly transferred across the country and given thirty days to report to my new office. The FBI likes to see how new agents overcome setbacks in their personal life and survive...
This Is How To Use Power Poses To Be Successful In Life
Successful FBI agents understand that it’s vital to create power poses that will produce results, and they’ll do it within the first few seconds of meeting someone. Often, people focus on how to memorize important points and rehearse their presentation so they’ll come...
How To Be Resilient When Times Get Tough
As proof that we’ve become a society of wimps, take this into consideration: new research confirms that when we run out of legitimate threats to face, we begin to call things that we judged to be harmless in the past as now a threat. The study was...
3 Reasons You Need More Than Success To Be Awesome
During my four months in the FBI Academy, I shot over 3,000 rounds of ammo in firearms training, spent untold hours in the gym building up enough muscle to pass the fitness test, and endured an endless number of mock interrogation sessions. We spent hundreds of hours...
4 Simple Ways You Can Impress Your Boss
I joined the FBI to make a difference, but I soon learned that I’d need to develop the self-esteem to impress my boss before important cases would be assigned to me. Otherwise, I’d be relegated to second tier on the squad. That meant I’d run investigative leads...
3 Smart Ways You Can Gain Confidence In Yourself
I learned quickly in the FBI that success would not make me confident; instead, confidence would make me successful. Easier said than done, and I should know because I’d never shot a gun when I showed up at the FBI Academy. Guess what? FBI agents are required to...
How To Fool People And Look More Confident
One of the first things I learned as an FBI agent was that the public had expectations when I walked through the door. They expected a confident, polished, and competent agent to listen to their concerns. Their first impression was the critical metric by which they...
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