Thin Blue Mind / Smokey Heroes
Police Psychology | Persistence in Law Enforcement
Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP
I saw the musical On Your Feet last night on Broadway. It was about Gloria and Emilio Estafan and their story of a rise to fame and fortune. She was the first big Hispanic crossover in the music field and later Emilio 
had his hands in other Latin crossovers that followed like Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, Ricky Martin and Marc Anthony.
Early in their careers, no one would play their music because it was Latin and had Latin rhythms. It was fine for their record producers to say they were tops on the charts in the Spanish music market, but it wasn’t going anywhere on the English market. Their record company would not hear of it even when they brought in an English song. He didn’t want a Spanish group doing English music — no record company wanted that. So, Emilio and Gloria started playing the English songs everywhere, gave many free gigs and concerts at clubs, blasted it from car radios as they traveled around, got stations to play it out of the blue — they created their own publicity with pure persistence. They ignored what the experts told them and were being purely persistent. Life is very much that way, persistence wins out. But, when are you too persistent…? Read the rest of this entry »
Intelligence, counterintelligence, etc. Keeping it Simple is a natural since I wrote it and is always there. I had bought back the rights in the late 90’s because the publisher could keep it in stock and get it to me when I was on the road doing speeches. Cops always pick it up and keep it, which is fine. They should. Processing Under Pressure is the other book everyone picks up and starts to read when I make my hourly trip to the bathroom and then they say “Can I borrow this book? I’ll bring it back.” Cops never bring it back. They talk about it non-stop for three or four sessions, but it never sees my office again. That’s not fine as I have to buy those copies.
starting with Cat’s Cradle, go to Cat’s Whiskers, Jacob’s Ladder, the Eiffel Tower, the witches broom, etc. Okay, I have to admit I went “HUH? What kind of talent is that?” Not out loud of course, but to myself. I was scared to death for her and pictured Alicia Keys on stage before her and Yo-Yo Ma after she performed, with her “string tricks” saddled in between What an embarrassment for her! I calmed myself down with saying it will be over in 2 minutes, and I am a psychologist, I will put her broken ego back together when it is over. She will learn something from this.
brain that is responsible for all your higher functions – conscious thought, logical reasoning, and narrative language. It makes it possible for you to consider the past and plan the future. This type of brain structure and function is found only in humans. 