The School of Greatness · 2025-04-28 · 61 min · 11,339 words

Secret Service Agent: How to Read Anyone and Spot Lies | Evy Poumpouras

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You can't look to other people to support you for you to go do something. If you're saying you need to give me this so I can do this, they're not the problem. Your thinking is the problem. She's the Secret Service agent who's protected presidents and she looked after the Obamas, Clinton and Bush. With a master's in forensic psychology, she worked complex undercover missions.

My girl, Evi Pumpuris. Ask people questions, drop a question. And go quiet. Let them reveal themselves to you. If you want to know how to read people and if you want to know to gauge who's trustworthy, who's not, who's reliable, let them show you.

But if you're jabbering away, you're not gonna see it. The mistake we make is we think there's good and there's evil. Evil people do bad things. Good people do bad things. Good people take advantage.

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