by Larae Quy | Mar 9, 2020 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
The thing about stress is that no amount of money can make it go away. In fact, money can actually increase your stress level. Your stress might spike over noble concerns that include climate change, terrorism, and political turmoil. Or, even more likely, your stress...
by Larae Quy | Sep 9, 2019 | personal achievement, personal leadership
When I attended an undercover in-service at the FBI Academy, several of my training sessions included a mock trial with cross-examination by a hostile public defender. The normal human response to a verbal attack is to become angry—maybe even strike back. But that is...
by Larae Quy | Jul 8, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
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 undertaken in an...
by Larae Quy | Apr 1, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Before becoming an FBI agent, I thought I could become successful by simply working hard. It got me through school with good grades and into my first job as a fashion buyer. My thinking shifted, however, when I met my first FBI firearms instructor. He barked out...
by Larae Quy | Feb 25, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
In the FBI Academy, we trained how to run down and tackle individuals who resisted arrest. I was a lousy runner and came up at the rear of every race. The idea that I could run down or even catch up with a suspect produced snarky comments and rolled eyes from my...
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