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Lessons in People

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Stories & Insights from the Front Lines of Human Behaviour
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Lessons in People reveals the hidden emotional and psychological skills behind frontline security work. Through personal stories, practical insights, and a sharply observed understanding of human behaviour, Brodie Finegan Forbes explores the calm, presence, and discipline required to navigate conflict and protect others.

On the doors, in chaotic crowds, in quiet moments of crisis, and on the phone with people at the edge of their own breaking point, this book demonstrates what truly keeps people safe, not force, but steadiness. Not aggression, but awareness. Not ego, but mastery.

These pages uncover the invisible art behind de-escalation: shaping the temperature of a room, absorbing tension before it becomes danger, and grounding people who never learned how to calm themselves. It is about the storms people carry, the triggers they hide, and the moments where one wrong reaction can alter the course of someone’s life.

Lessons in People is part memoir, part manual, part philosophy. It is a study of conflict, trauma, resilience, and the unglamorous but essential work of staying composed when others lose control. It is a guide for anyone who has ever been responsible for another person’s safety, or their own.


Author: Brodie Finegan Forbes

www.brodiefineganforbes.com


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Lessons in People

For the Animals

I write a great deal about what it means to be human.

Perhaps part of being human is deciding what we do with what we have.

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From every book purchased directly through this website, 50% of the profit is donated to the RSPCA, helping animals who have been abandoned, neglected, mistreated, or simply left without somewhere safe to go.

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There is no grand philosophy behind it.

I have spent much of my life writing about suffering, survival, love, fear, cruelty, redemption, and the strange responsibility that comes with being alive. Eventually, words have to become something more than words.

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Success has never interested me simply for the sake of having more.​

Animals ask very little of us. They do not care who we are, what we have achieved, what we own, or whether anybody knows our name. So this is one small way that I can make the work mean something beyond the page.

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You buy a book.
You support an independent writer.
And somewhere beyond the page, something good comes from it.

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That is enough philosophy for me.

Brodie Finegan Forbes

Dated: 06/10/26

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Please note: Brodie Finegan Forbes is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or officially partnered with the RSPCA. This is an independent initiative, with 50% of profits from eligible book sales donated to support the RSPCA's work.

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