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EverydaySpy Podcast

CIA High Performance SECRETS | EverydaySpy Podcast Ep. 20

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Spy, Learning, Spies, Thinking, Human, Cia, Intelligence, Espionage, Education, Lifehack, Social Sciences, Advantage, Edge, Unfair, Science, How To, Humint, Secret, Growth, Business

4.7640 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Every parent worries about the trauma they cause their child. And every adult knows the trauma they endured growing up. But what most people don’t realize is that there is a formula that can turn childhood trauma into high-achievement. The same children that grow up feeling ignored, unloved, and not-good-enough can become the adults that do amazing things. CIA knows the formula, and today Jihi and I are giving it to you.

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0:00.0

CIA taught us that there's a connection between childhood trauma and high performance.

0:05.0

CIA calls you in on the first day of orientation. They sit everybody down. They say,

0:09.0

welcome to CIA. You take your oath. And then they basically roll into a whole presentation about how you're all a little f***ed up.

0:16.0

So it makes it so great for the job.

0:17.0

And it makes you perfect for the job. And they say, hey, you are all victims of some level of childhood trauma.

0:23.2

And that trauma is what has made you who you are today.

0:26.4

I just had an awesome weekend at space camp with our son.

0:40.1

I had no idea it was going to be so much fun.

0:43.1

Really?

0:46.5

Space camp.

0:48.4

Well, I'm not even talking about space camp.

0:50.8

The space camp was cool, but the time with him. Oh, yeah. Like the one-on-one time

0:57.4

with our son was amazing. Yeah. I mean, we left on Wednesday. We had two days in Huntsville,

1:03.4

Alabama, just the two of us. And then we had two days camping at the Huntsville, Alabama Space

1:09.3

and Rocket Center for two full days. And that was also

1:12.6

awesome. But man, that was four days and four days and four airplane rides. And like, it was just

1:19.4

amazing to be with him uninterrupted for that time. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know that you've had that

1:25.2

before. I had it last year.

1:27.6

I sent the kids to different camps, just experimenting.

1:30.7

And so I know I had one week with Sina alone, but this was the first time I've been with

1:37.1

Eli alone.

1:37.9

And I was actually a little bit scared to be alone with our six-year-old.

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