Secret Agent: If You’re Easily Offended, You’re Easily Manipulated! This 1 Trick Catches A Lie In 2s

If I'm easily offended, I'm easily manipulated. So if you are that person where you are reactive, reactive, reactive, rule number one: shut the f- (censored) up. Because if you're looking to be respected, you need to manage yourself. But there are times that people are gonna cross you and disrespect you.

Well, how do you deal with it?

So there is a guidepost that's taught to the intelligence communities and it really, really helps when you're dealing with people. And so one of the ways you deal with that kind of behavior is-

Evy Poumpourous is a former Secret Service agent turned human behavior expert.

From protecting presidents to interrogating the world's most dangerous men-

She now teaches people how to develop mental strength and persuasive communication skills.

How did they train you as a Secret Service agent to have that strong mental foundation that you have?

There's a lot of things. So first, one of the biggest things that holds people back is the idea that, "I'm special." You're not that special. For example, I was one of the first responders at 9/11. I watched thousands of people die, and one of the things that got me through it was understanding I wasn't alone in it, and when you learn that you can get through anything. But when you tell yourself, "Nobody knows what I'm going through," nobody can help you, 'cause it's just you going through it. Now, the next thing, what's most important is this tool that we don't pay attention to: our body. And there's this study where they started recording people walking. Then they played it to convicted felons and they said to them, "Who would you pick as prey?" They all picked the same people. They were (censored) . So there are simple things you can do with your hands, your voice, how you sit, and I will tell you everything. But also, the other thing that's actually interesting which you didn't ask but I will volunteer this information are the strategies to tell if somebody's being truthful or not, and it's... That's lie detection 101.

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