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🗓️ 6 November 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | questions of the people that I worked with. |
0:03.0 | It appears the leaving Benghazi. |
0:05.0 | We were watching the Benghazi hearings, and if you've ever seen these things, there's, you know, the person |
0:09.9 | who asked to answer all the questions, but then there are all the people behind them who |
0:13.5 | have to sit there not doing anything. From any intelligence official in our |
0:19.4 | government and at one point during this hearing we saw a woman behind Hillary Clinton start to doze off. |
0:26.3 | You really feel for these people. |
0:27.8 | How could you possibly stay focused, stay awake when you have nothing to do? So online with us now we have a former |
0:35.1 | employee of the federal government who is going to use a pseudonym, we're going to call |
0:39.7 | her Tracy, she's here to help. We would have meetings that were in preparation for other meetings, |
0:46.0 | we'd have debriefs of those meetings, |
0:49.0 | we would have meetings on how to have more efficient meetings. |
0:53.0 | Wow. |
0:54.0 | And you start to see that your days and weeks and months are going to look like this and you need |
0:59.8 | some coping mechanisms. |
1:01.0 | Well, let's have some of your techniques then. |
1:04.8 | If you're in large group meetings |
1:06.8 | and you want to participate with other colleagues, |
1:10.3 | for instance, sort of like group coping. We would pre-select buzzwords that you know |
1:17.6 | were going to be repeated over and over and over again the side on those ahead of time |
1:24.4 | and then treat it sort of like a drinking game. |
1:27.7 | In one case, a friend of mine and I went in, |
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