Walk, talk, chew gum, navigate the lunch room at school and come home alive. Your thoughts are private, ‘secret’ so that’s a given. Your action and reaction time during stressful situations is critical somewhere around kindergarten, so if you have figured out how NOT to piss yourself when a bell rings or when a bully pushes you down on the playground you’ve taken your first class in being a ‘normal human being’ or in this book, a ‘spy.’

When traveling in a foreign country the first question you have to ask yourself when approached by a native is not whether or not he knows you’re a spy, it’s: “Can he help me find the bathroom?” or, “Does he know where my luggage is?”

If you imagine yourself behaving better than you usually do, and work to create a better world, you won’t be so stressed out and life will not require ‘thinking like a spy.’

think about that.