Consumers vs. Producers

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

4.7 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Human beings have an inherent desire to be useful, but people are not all useful in the same way. Maximizing your success requires that you tap into the usefulness of others just as much as you lean on your own personal strengths. In this episode, Andrew shares a powerful hack that CIA uses to get the most out of every officer and human asset they recruit. WARNING: You cannot unlearn what you are about to learn...

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:08.0	Freedom! Freedom. Freedom.
0:23.7	Freedom.
0:34.5	As I was prepping for our conversation today, I realized I had a lot that I wanted to share with you.
0:40.5	So I'm warning you now that this episode is actually going to be a two-parter. To Be Continued episode that packs two independent tactics that you can use right away to win now and then later on together as this super powerful one-two punch for your own success. Now, if you hate the idea of a two-part
0:58.2	lesson, just get ready to be disappointed. But if you are open to trying something new,
1:03.4	I am super excited to do this thing. Now, the U.S. military, in case you didn't know it, right now,
1:09.4	is going through a major recruitment
1:12.0	crisis. It has seen the lowest volunteer recruitment since 1973. For those of you who are not
1:19.3	necessarily familiar with history, 1973 was the year after the Vietnam draft ended. So in 1972, the military was actually mandating soldiers join the military.
1:32.5	By 1973, we were officially in all-volunteer force. Last year in 2022, we saw the lowest recruitment
1:41.0	numbers for the U.S. military since 1973, since the day after the Vietnam
1:46.7	draft ended. To put that in percentage, we missed our recruitment goals by 25%. The military
1:54.1	missed its goal by 25%. Think about that. That's like your kid scoring 25% lower than they should have scored on a test. Or like your business coming in 25% less on its target annual goals or its current monthly or quarterly goals. That's one quarter of the entire package. That's a huge amount to miss. In fact, the military has been so just perplexed
2:22.1	by this crisis that they're actually making moves now to accept candidates who fail to meet
2:27.8	minimum physical or mental aptitude requirements. That's absolutely insane. The military now has a built-in fat camp and a built-in
2:37.9	secondary school so that they can take unfit candidates and turn them into barely fit candidates.
2:46.7	That absolutely blows my mind. Now, veterans and non-veterans alike all know how the military works, right?
2:53.4	The military has drills. They give you lots of responsibility. There's really no incentive to perform well,
3:00.2	but there's plenty of punishment if you have any kind of mistake or any kind of error. In fact,
3:06.0	the military even has their own legal system
3:09.2	called the UCMJ, the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So when you join the military,
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