Staying Safe in a Dangerous World: How the secrets of professional spies can help you avoid personal harm

The premise of this book is clear: most personal disasters are largely self-inflicted wounds. We inadvertently choose to put ourselves at risk and make ourselves victims.
Over a decades-long career that has taken me to countries in every continent, interacting with people from dozens of different cultures, I'm still amazed at how people tend to live in the past or the future and ignore the present.
What's typical: People view the past with often crippling regret--or it's companion emotion, b...