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Becoming Bulletproof

Evy Poumpouras

Becoming Bulletproof

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Becoming Bulletproof is a collection of all of the useful lessons Evy Poumpouras learnt during her career as an agent in the Presidential Protective Division of the Secret Services in the United States. The book covers a vast range of topics, including the importance of overcoming fear (and how to do so), and a description of the three basic reactions we have in such situations (fight, flight, or freeze), teaching us how to best protect ourselves so as to deal with them better. The author provides a series of effective tips to help you build a resilient mental attitude, and prevent the most common risk situations that you yourself or your loved ones, or your property, may be exposed to. In the second part of the book, she explores the importance of recognising lies and interpreting other people’s behaviour. The book finishes with a number of invaluable tips on how to influence others, interact with them better, control how you express yourself, and live life with a proactive attitude.

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Analysis and key concepts

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Improve your resilience through your mental attitude

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To overcome fear, you need to be able to recognise it, and master it

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Having the right “mental armour” will help you to overcome obstacles and your fears

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Attitude is the key to developing the most effective resilience

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Prevention is the best means of protecting yourself

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How to secure your home and property, including social media

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Truth or Lie: how to understand what you have in front of you

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Control your expressions and emotions when communicating with other people (verbally and otherwise)

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Influencing others and relating to them: from attention to priming

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Quotes

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Take-home message

01. Improve your resilience through your mental attitude

Humans, and all other animals, are driven by a survival instinct, however, in dangerous situations, it is easy to lose control, and panic, making it difficult for us to remain calm, or think logically about how to save ourselves. The ability to manage these types of situations, and to overcome fear, depends entirely on one thing: your mental attitude. Just like in nature, survival is about being able to master your fear response and avoid panicking.

Similar to the way in which a bulletproof vest keeps the wearer safe, made up of numerous layers that are interwoven to create a much stronger material than a simple rigid protective shell, you too can create a type of personal “armour”, composed of resilience, and a number of useful behaviours, that will help to protect you mentally, emotionally, and physically, and to be ready to cope with any situation that life may throw at you.

02. To overcome fear, you need to be able to recognise it, and master it

03. Having the right “mental armour” will help you to overcome obstacles and your fears

04. Attitude is the key to developing the most effective resilience

05. Prevention is the best means of protecting yourself

06. How to secure your home and property, including social media

07. Truth or Lie: how to understand what you have in front of you

08. Control your expressions and emotions when communicating with other people (verbally and otherwise)

09. Influencing others and relating to them: from attention to priming

10. Quotes

11. Take-home message

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Many useful tips to:

  • Face complicated situations with the right attitude.
  • Overcome fear, and use it to your advantage.
  • Learn to defend yourself, your loved ones, and your belongings.
  • Influence others, and uncover their lies.
  • Adopt a “bulletproof” mentality and attitude.

Evy Poumpouras is an American journalist, author, and lecturer. She also served as a Special Agent of the United States Secret Service from the Clinton, to the Obama Administrations, and received a Medal of Valor for her heroism on 9/11. After leaving the Secret Service, she graduated with a BA in Political Science from Hofstra University, and a BA in Forensic Psychology from Argosy University. Today, she teaches Criminology at the City University of New York. She became popular thanks to her book Becoming Bulletproof, and her numerous appearances on television services for NBC, MSNBC, Today, Fox News, as well as co-starring on the reality show Spy Games on the American channel, Bravo.

Publishing house:

Atria Books

Year:

2020

Pages:

336

ISBN:

978-1982103750