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How Anxiety Traps People And How You Can Break Free

How Anxiety Traps People And How You Can Break Free

by Larae Quy | Jun 9, 2025 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

At the FBI Academy, new agents like myself spent five months role-playing, alternating between being the bad guy who needed to be arrested and the good guy whose job it was to take scum off the streets. The role-playing was meant to instill confidence in ourselves...
How Resilience Helps You Take Control of Your Emotions

How Resilience Helps You Take Control of Your Emotions

by Larae Quy | Oct 10, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness

One of my investigations in San Francisco targeted a foreign spy who hated the United States. I’ll call him Agent X. He worked for a hostile intelligence service headquartered in Asia. Silicon Valley was a hotbed of foreign spies trying to steal classified and...
How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower You To Be More Resilient

by Larae Quy | Aug 20, 2024 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

I worked as an FBI counterintelligence agent for twenty years and loved the challenge of being a spy catcher. However, when I was offered the position of spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California, I jumped at the chance. It felt like the next step in...
How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower Physicians To Be More Effective

How Emotional Intelligence Can Empower Physicians To Be More Effective

by Larae Quy | Oct 30, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

The FBI requires agents to take annual physicals, including a treadmill test every few years. That year was my time for the examination. Dr. General (his first name, believe it or not) hooked me up so he could follow my heart and lung responses. I was panting along at...
Here are three scientific reasons why emotional well-being is key to your success

Here are three scientific reasons why emotional well-being is key to your success

by Larae Quy | Oct 26, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness

As a kid growing up on a remote cattle ranch in Wyoming, I grew up scrappy. I had to be fast to outrun a charging bull and innovative enough to find a way to saddle a horse so tall that my stirrup came to rest at eye level. I never thought much about well-being and...
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