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...
by Larae Quy | Jan 8, 2025 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Resilience is frequently defined as our ability to bounce back from hardship like rubber bands that pop back to our original shape after being stretched. Likewise, most solutions imply that inspirational quotes, hand-holding, and large doses of sympathy will help us...
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...
by Larae Quy | Apr 28, 2023 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness
Major FBI investigations are intense and usually slow-moving because of the case’s complexity. For example, I was among many agents assigned to interview witnesses after the terrorist attack of 9/11; supervisors told us to show up seven days a week and work...
by Larae Quy | Apr 25, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Over the past few years, I’ve read many ridiculous articles about how resilience means “bouncing back” from our obstacles—as though life is nothing more than jumping on a trampoline. To unlock our resilience, we must get serious and look for deeper healing than a few...
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