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EverydaySpy Podcast

CIA Spy: The Psychological Skill 99% of People Don’t Have

EverydaySpy Podcast

Andrew Bustamante

Entrepreneurship, Education, News, News Commentary, Self-improvement, Business

4.6695 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

So what are some of the top skills that you think you learned working for the CIA,

0:07.2

that you can then apply to like real civilian life or the world?

0:11.5

Yeah, there are a lot of skills that you learn at CIA,

0:13.7

but the ones that are the most applicable really have to do with understanding and predicting

0:18.8

and directing and directing human behavior.

0:21.7

Human beings aren't really that difficult to understand, and they're not that difficult

0:26.0

to predict, which makes them not that difficult to control or direct.

0:31.5

And those were the most useful skills that we learned at CIA.

0:34.8

Give me an example.

0:36.2

So let me get a very funny example, right?

0:39.2

I do this, I do this oftentimes with people.

0:41.6

We are conditioned to make certain body movements

0:44.0

just based off of what we encounter, right?

0:47.8

So when we first met, I extended my hand.

0:50.1

Yeah.

0:51.0

Which even now, you know I'm not trying to shake your hands, but you still feel the need to put your hand out.

0:57.1

Yeah.

0:57.7

That's predictable directing human behavior, right?

1:01.2

With personal bubbles.

1:02.6

I can literally move you, if we're standing next to each other, I can literally move you someplace where I want you to go just by invading your personal bubble. I know that

1:11.8

if I silently stand too close to you, you will move away. And people do this all the time. People do it in

1:16.8

lines. They do it in elevators. What CIA does is teaches you how to do it intentionally with operational

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