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HOW WE MET: Love, Espionage, and Family | EverydaySpy Podcast Ep. 13

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

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Did you ever have a conversation with your significant other and realize they were actually kinda scary? Well, that just happened to me today! And you get to be part of my realization. In the face of her sheer-scariness, I had to come clean about a dirty little secret I’d been keeping from her. Luckily, I have all of you as witnesses to keep me safe…

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0:00.0

We were in different, very different career tracks at the CIA.

0:03.0

Because right now this is weird.

0:04.0

There is, well, there's like a whole cadre of targeters that would disagree, or maybe slightly agree that we are kind of weird.

0:11.0

But we're all the kind of people that like, we deep dive, right?

0:15.0

And deep diving, it's kind of an obsession.

0:17.0

Like, I get that it's been awesome because you became a CIA targeter.

0:20.0

Yeah.

0:25.5

But at one point, you were a friggin 10-year-old who wanted to be a fashion designer until your mom told you that...

0:32.4

So I had an idea about our son's complete obsession with Minecraft.

0:40.3

Oh.

0:41.3

Seriously, I am like running out of ideas with this because it's really irritating to me.

0:48.3

He is so obsessed with Minecraft.

0:51.3

I know.

0:52.3

It just results in tears and arguments.

0:54.8

I know.

0:56.6

And because we limit the screen time.

1:07.3

So the idea I had was, you were on a trip recently, and it was like three days in a row where he was like, I wish I could just play Minecraft all day.

1:11.8

And then it dawned on me, like, why don't I let him play Minecraft all day? Like,

1:20.2

not in general, but as an experiment because we unschool, homeschool, child led learning. So I'm like, you know, part of that entire process is helping them learn to self-regulate, helping them learn

1:26.2

to make decisions. They can't make those decisions if we're constantly telling them what to self-regulate, helping them learn to make decisions. They can't make those decisions

1:29.0

if we're constantly telling them what to do. So my idea was, what if we give him seven days, right?

1:36.0

We have a conversation with him, obviously, like we do with everything else. He's like, hey,

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