Lessons - Spy Secrets That Will Save Your Life | Jason Hanson - Founder of Spy Escape & Evasion

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Is this something that we should actually be concerned about for the average individual? You know, you're a smart guy and you are a survivalist to a degree. So what does that mean for the rest of us? First, we shall be self-reliant. We all have heard the stories of the water pipe burst and you can't get water, which actually happened to a front of mine not too long ago and of course in 30 seconds all the shelves go empty of water and people need water. We know that the grid can go down. I mean there's a blackout somewhere. So the world is not going to get any safer. I'm not going to go into a long rant about other foreign threats and trying to bring our grid down, but you've got to be self-reliant. You need to have this stuff. So I realize that everybody's going to want two years where the food storage like I have, but that makes me comfortable and the best part of me self-reliant is you can help others. If you do not have supplies, if you're not prepared, well then you're just another deadbeat who's causing problems who's going to stand in a long line because you can't help others out. So for instance, I have a widow next door, right? I know she has some supplies, but guess what? Because I have so much, I can help take care of this widow. I can help take care of some friends and family. So that's why I think it's important is so you can take care yourself and not be a drain on society, not be a drain on the government, but also so you can help those in need who might not be able to afford two years with a food storage or afford as much as you and I might be able to afford it. Because I'm starting to learn that this could be a little bit more important than I originally thought. Like I was originally from Toronto, moved down to South Florida and now I'm dealing with all the hurricane chaos that happens and I've never thought to fill my bathtub with water for several days of drinking the water before, but this is a whole new world. So I find that so interesting. What are some other very important, I guess, basic things that people should think about in their day to day, just in terms of survival, survival and not being a burden and what they should be doing and they're in the condo in a big city. What are the things they should think about? Well, you should have your food storage. We mentioned you should have your water storage. I'm a big guns guy or some type of weapon. So I love guns. You've got to have a way to protect yourself if somebody's kicking in your front door at 3am, whether that's a knife, whether it's a hatchet and acts again, have something to protect yourself and then pay attention. Criminals case people, meaning when you're staring at your phone, what a criminal, I'll tell you the the kind of a criminal framework, right? It's called the hostage events attack cycle. And what it means is, okay, some criminals says, hey, I need money, right? I'm going to go to target and watch everybody coming out of the target parking lot. And I'm going to see everybody come out who looks like the easiest victim. Then I'm going to follow that easiest victim to the car. I'm going to rob them and my buddy's going to be two lanes over. I'm going to jump in the car and we're going to get out of there. That's in a nutshell. So if you don't have your head down, if you're looking up and you're scanning around, they're going to say, you know what? I'm not going to pick that person because they're going to see me coming. I'm going to go after the 50 other people in the target parking lot who have no idea what's going around. So just by having situational awareness and having your head up, it's that much easier not to be attacked. Many years ago in a place I won't name, I was almost kidnapped. Two guys are coming towards me. They don't blend in with the environment. They don't look like they should be there. And as we're about 25 yards apart, they're coming towards me. They look at each other. They look directly at me and they step apart trying to funnel me in between them. Well, as soon as I saw this, I turned around. I took off running. These guys took off running after me. And when people are trying to kidnap me, I become very, very fast. So I out ran these guys. They never got to me. But if I had had my head down that day in some phone, I would have walked right into these two guys who would have tried to kidnap me and then we had to fight it out. So having good situational awareness keeps you out of having to fight. It keeps you out of being attacked. 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I think it's a Tim Ferris story where he went abroad and he didn't think anything was up and then there was when he got off the plane, there was somebody holding a sign saying like Tim Ferris is if they're the driver or whatever. And then he realized that he didn't tell anybody that he was going to that country. And he thinks that this is the potential kidnapping event that he avoided because he's like, I never told anybody I was going to the country. There's nobody you should have had a sign there. Nobody knew I was going to be there and it was some, I can't remember which country. But it's just interesting that you don't expect it and then it really only has to happen once for it to be the most devastating, you know, life-impacting event that will ever happen to you. Right, exactly. And he obviously played a grade. I mean, yeah, that Tim Ferris story hadn't heard, but he did the right thing. I mean, same thing for me, if I'm going somewhere and I don't tell people exactly where I'm going, I never do. If somebody shows up there with a sign, heck no, I'm not going towards them. So you've got to be vigilant everywhere you go these days. What are some other, I mean, you have so many lessons. It's really hard to pick. So I'm just going to ask you which ones you think are the most practical or the most impactful that would help somebody in a day to day. And it can be a self-defense lesson. It could be a survival at whatever things that you think resonate the most with an audience is sort of just starting to consume your content. So one of the classes I teach is how to become a human lie detector. So it's detecting deception. And when we go over a bunch of stuff, but I'm going to tell you one of the easiest ways, anybody can do it. You don't have to be former CIA. You don't have to be a polygrapher or any of that is as human beings. We are not made to lie. So when we lie, our brain has to take time to come up with that lie. So if I ask somebody a question, I say, you know, hey, hey, Joe, tell me the last time you stole something, right? Most people immediately answer, oh, I stole money from my parents wall at high school or oh, when I was in sixth grade, I stole a Snickers bar from the supermarket, right? It's a it's a quick community answer. But if you ask somebody this question and they get the nervous look on their face and they're start, um, um, um, um, they're trying to buy time to control that lie. So I'll tell you the perfect example. When I'm hiring people, I literally do just what I said. So I get them comfortable. They sit down with me. I'm like, hey, you know, tell me where you're from. You know, we get to we shoot the bowl for about five minutes. And then way out of left field, I don't even tell them it's coming. I say, tell me last time you stole something. And again, most people are like, oh, in sixth grade, I stole much Katie from the supermarket, right? Immediately answer. They're not nervous. They have normal human behavior. Well, one time true story. I had a guy as soon as I said this, he gets the deer in the headlights. Look, and he's like, well, um, uh, well, and like, hey, don't worry about it. We've all stolen things. You know, we've all we've all done stuff. And he says, well, I worked for a bookkeeping company a while back. It was my last job, actually. And I stole a ton of office supplies because I wanted to set up a competing bookkeeping company. And I realized I don't want to be the bookkeeping business. So I need a job with you. Clearly, I did not hire that guy. He was very honest. He was because I mean, after we started having a hang, I come down and I, you know, I, I, I got it out of them. But just, you know, once you shoot the ball for five minutes with somebody, come out with a question way out of that field. I mean, I do the same thing with drugs. I say, hey, tell me last time you did drugs. Most people are like, well, I smoked marijuana in high school or I did some drugs in college. But I had a person one, same thing. Deer in the headlights nervous told me they did hard drugs on the weekend, but never during the work week. Well, I don't hire people who do drugs because I'm in a security business. So that is an easy way to detect deception is law them into that complacency, hit them with that uncomfortable question and see if they exhibit normal human behavior. So it's interesting because the second you do that, even if I end up telling you the truth, their mind perceives the thing that they did as something that would obviously turn you off as the question, as the person asking the question. So they think they, they know that what they did is wrong. And that's why they pause on it. They, they know that what they did was incorrect or they know that they did like probably is not going to be conducive to them getting the jobs. They pause on it. So even if it's not pure deception, you actually benchmark how they perceive the severity of the thing they did by how long it takes them to answer. Correct. I want to see how uncomfortable it makes. If you are honest and you did nothing that is outside of normal human behavior, meaning you stole candy and sixth grade from the supermarket. Many of us have done that. That's normal behavior. But if you're stealing all the supplies is a grown adult at your last job and a lot of them clearly not normal human behavior. So you're nervous, you're uncomfortable. You know, like you said, I'm not going to like the answer and you're probably not going to get the job. So you get the deer on the headlights looking all the stuff that comes with it. When is there a way to pick up deception even if it's not, for example, something that is that much of a lie. So say you're talking about somebody's past experience and you're saying, you know, what did you do at your last job? And they were, you know, maybe an entry-level marketing person, but they're saying that they are the CMO and they did everything for the company and it's like not a lie, but it's not the truth and they could really hurt your business if you make, for example, this hiring decision. Are there any other indicators? Yeah, I mean, that are so. Yeah, there's a ton that I teach. So one of them is pay attention to the direction that had nots because the head doesn't lie. So as you and beings, we often lie with our voice, right? And I'll give you the million dollar example and I don't care what anybody's politics are, doesn't matter to me, but when Hillary Clinton was running for president against Trump several years ago, she had an interview and I believe was Diane Sawyer with some kind of 60 minutes to be interviewed, right? And so they ask Hillary, they say something to her or Diane Sawyer says something to her like Hillary, you and Bill have a wonderful marriage, don't you? And she says, oh yes, we have a wonderful marriage and you see her head just slightly. And so politicians, of course, many of them are liars. It's great to watch them on this. So I asked somebody a question like when I'm interviewing somebody and sometimes they'll say, Hey, Jason, I've never stolen anything in my life. And I'm like, you're kidding me. I stole stuff in my life. I was the guy who stole candy from the supermarket and the sixth grade kind of thing. And they're like, no, Jason, I have never stolen anything. I'm watching to make sure there are no matches up with their no. Did have a case one time where a guy was like, no, I'm never stolen anything in his head is slightly. It's very slight, nodding yes. And then I know I've got him. So always trust the direction the head nods, not what the voice says. Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. And if you want to dive deeper into this conversation, check out the links in the description to watch the full episode. See you in the next one.