Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly

Product Information

At moments, it's all too much, as when the author explains how to sit in a restaurant to prevent attacks (namely: with the back against a wall and if possible looking at the restaurant's entrance - exactly, too much). In Becoming Bulletproof, Poumpouras demonstrates how to heighten our natural instincts to employ all these qualities and move from fear to fearlessness.

Former Secret Service agent and star of Bravo's Spy Games Evy Poumpouras shares lessons learned from protecting presidents, as well insights and skills from the oldest and most elite security force in the world to help you prepare for stressful situations, instantly read people, influence how you are perceived, and live a more fearless life. There are enough specific suggestions here, however, that can be implemented, that can be learned, that it seems a worthwhile read even if you are not up to implementing all the recommedations. My cousin, she works there, the man said in a thick Polish accent, still staring up, immobilized and helpless. For the 1st time out of my 300+ books read by far, this is the first one that I have vowed to re-read a specific book 3x before this year end (2020).I'll give it 3 stars because it was a light enjoyable reading for me but it did not bring huge value to me in terms of learning something new or change something in me.

For example, predators like snakes and spiders elicit a negative reaction from children as young as six months, before they’d be able to learn these creatures are dangerous. FAT kits were the first aid trauma kits we kept in the field office, and which would undoubtedly be needed by anyone trying to escape the fire raging in Tower 1. This article is an excerpt from the Shortform book guide to "Becoming Bulletproof" by Evy Poumpouras. In addition to conquering fear and mitigating your responses to danger, Evy Poumpouras provides strategies in Becoming Bulletproof to help you become more resilient in your daily life.

She had something (good) to say about the presidents and First Ladies, and I was all ears when she gave us peeks into their personalities. It happened slowly, just a metallic echo resounding through the air at first, followed by the grinding, groaning sound that precedes total destruction. Turn bad situations into learning opportunities: If you don’t become overwhelmed with fear, anger, or other emotions during a mishap or crisis, you’ll be able to learn from it. In firearm training you're taught that the worst thing to do when getting shot at is to stand still. We headed back down to the ground floor, the cumbersome kits dragging down our shoulders and cutting into our hands.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.My adrenaline spiked as I dragged that brutally heavy table over to the building, hoping that it would protect me from falling debris and provide me with a pocket of air to shelter under should I be buried. As the tower collapsed above me, strange as it might sound, I felt a peculiar peace spreading through me. She was even deprived of a chance to go Brooklyn Tech High School, one of the elite specialty high schools in the New York City Public School system, because her parents did not think it was safe for her to go to Brooklyn.