I’ve given away over a dozen copies of Gavin de Becker’s book, The Gift of Fear. If you know me, and I haven’t bought you one, I’ve probably lent you mine or told you to go get it. Now. <\/p>\n
I first fell upon The Gift<\/em> in the late nineties as a postgraduate student at Manchester. When I was immersed in offender profiling and victimology and had John Douglas’s<\/a> number tucked away on my mobile. <\/p>\n In short, The Gift is this: Women, when it comes to danger, do not ignore your gut because (you think) it makes you feel silly or weak. That gut<\/em> is an evolved form of intuition that will keep you safe. And de Becker knows from safe. He’s a security specialist who designed an assessment system used to screen threats to U.S. Supreme Court Justices. <\/p>\n I’m reminded of this because I saw something about Oprah<\/a> having de Becker on her show today. No idea if it was a repeat. Or even what times or stations it was on. Either way, here’s the book on Amazon.<\/a> Please go have a look. And let me know if you caught the Oprah episode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve given away over a dozen copies of Gavin de Becker’s book, The Gift of Fear. If you know me, and I haven’t bought you one, I’ve probably lent you mine or told you to go get it. Now. I first fell upon The Gift in the late nineties as a postgraduate student at Manchester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum","tag-the-gift-of-fear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}