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Kit Bennett

πŸ‘€ Speaker
782 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The Agency
Quiet Americans

Very hard to do, in fact.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

And you learn how to do all sorts of things, like, you know, if you can... You know, the old tricks that everyone talks about.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

You look in the windows of a shop and look at people, you know, and you find yourself looking at a...

The Agency
Quiet Americans

a shop with women's underwear in it because you're looking at the people behind you.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

It's a bit obvious that you're doing counter surveillance but what you would try and do is always put people through pinch points and funnels so you know if you could get them if you could be at the end of the alley and watch people walking across the alley you'll and you see that person twice you know man in red hat you know woman in blue dress you know that sort of thing and you fire those away do I see that person again you know that sort of thing.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

Where I did a raft of tests and things, interviews and, you know, stuff that made Myers-Briggs look like, you know, just incredible.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

You know, when did you first start hating your horse?

The Agency
Quiet Americans

All of that, you know, incredible questions, interviews, that sort of thing.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

He taught me things about myself.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

that he shouldn't ought to know and that I didn't tell him, but he knew.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

And I don't mean anything bizarre, but, you know, just things about yourself that are not in the arena, that are your secret self.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

He was able to tell me about those things.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

And he was able to give me some great guides as to what I should and shouldn't do.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

So, for example, he said, everybody thinks good judges of character.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

Do you think you're a good judge of character?

The Agency
Quiet Americans

I said, well, yeah, you know, I've been around a bit, I know.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

He said, well, I'm here to tell you you're not.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

You're not a good judge of character.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

And it's a flaw that you've got that you like people and you can very easily make excuses for conduct and things.

The Agency
Quiet Americans

And you need to be very careful about that.