329: Gavin de Becker | The Gift of Fear Part One
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Gavin de Becker (@gdbaprotects) is the author of The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence and the security pioneer who designed the MOSAIC Threat Assessment Systems used at the top levels of government. This is part one of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch part two here!
What We Discuss with Gavin de Becker:- Violence is a reality -- if you're not prepared for its possibility, you'll be caught off guard by its eventuality.
- Learn how to hone your sixth sense for danger.
- Discover how to spot the red flags that signify someone as a likely abuser, con artist, or predator.
- How can technology paired with human intuition protect us from people who mean us harm?
- How literal is the term gut feeling?
- And much more...
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| 0:41.5 | Today on the show, another one from the vault, my friend Gavin DeBecker is back on the |
| 0:46.0 | show. |
| 0:47.0 | Gavin has been the head of security for folks like Oprah and Jeff Bezos. |
| 0:50.9 | He's one of the most respected people in the security industry globally. |
| 0:55.4 | Gavin is also the author of The Gift of Fear, which is simply amazing and extremely popular |
| 1:00.7 | book for the past few decades on the subject of fear, why fear exists, and how we can use |
| 1:06.9 | it as a tool instead of, well, just being afraid of it or avoiding it. |
| 1:10.6 | We'll rediscover our intuition and how it developed and evolved, and how it can help |
| 1:15.0 | keep us alive if we actually listen to it. |
| 1:18.2 | We'll learn how to hone our sixth sense for danger, something I didn't think was possible, |
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