by Larae Quy | Feb 12, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
At the end of each school day, I’d head out to play on a rockslide near our house in Wyoming. I created an imaginary town with stores, houses, and businesses. I built a miniature Fort Laramie, complete with a jail for the bad guys I locked up. My brother ended up...
by Larae Quy | Dec 18, 2017 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Emotional intelligence is not taught at the FBI Academy, but it was essential for me to understand the difference between anxiety and sadness when I interviewed people. I needed to know whether I could trust them. I recruited foreign spies to work for the FBI so it...
by Larae Quy | Mar 13, 2017 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Women leaders have a secret weapon at their disposal. It’s called emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is your ability to 1) identify and manage your own emotions; 2) pick up on the emotions of others and manage them; and 3) in so doing, build trust...
by Larae Quy | May 1, 2016 | personal leadership
There are times when emotional competence trumps emotional intelligence. A few years ago I called a man whom the FBI suspected of having contact with a hostile intelligence officer from another country. The man’s voice had the warbly sound of an older man and he...
by Larae Quy | Jul 13, 2014 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
As an FBI counterintelligence agent, my job was to get others to cooperate. Specifically, foreign spies in the United States to steal propriety economic, defense, or political information. I attempted to persuade the foreign spy to jump ship and work with the FBI...
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