Making Advantage Out of Need

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

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Human nature is slow to change. That makes it a powerful and predictable advantage for you to use in your career, relationships, and business. In this episode, Andrew shares two current examples of how human nature gave one person an unfair advantage while leaving another person behind in the game of success. When you learn how to transform your need into value for someone else, you unlock incredible power, money, and influence.

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom! Freedom Freedom You and I have been talking together for a long time now, and for sure you know me pretty well.
0:33.6	But there are still a few embarrassing skeletons in my closet that I haven't shared yet.
0:40.9	And one of those particularly bony secrets is that I was a social train wreck when I was younger.
0:48.4	I mean, I was born absolutely absent of any kind of social grace or tact or empathy. I mean, my whole world revolved around me.
0:58.8	I was the first born son of a Latin family and the oldest male child in my generation of cousins.
1:05.9	I was the first grandson. I was the first college graduate. I was the first commissioned officer
1:10.6	in a long lineage of dedicated veterans. And I was the first college graduate. I was the first commissioned officer in a long lineage of
1:12.6	dedicated veterans. And I was a total pompous jerk. All I cared about, all I talked about and focused on
1:22.3	was myself. And I honestly expected everything to be given to me. I didn't want to work hard. I didn't
1:30.8	want to try too much. And when I didn't get what I wanted, I threw a fit. I'm sure you can
1:37.0	imagine. I wasn't popular or well liked in school because that would require some semblance of
1:42.3	social aptitude. And I was too blind, dumb, and ignorant to even realize the basic social skills that I was lacking.
1:53.2	Even worse, I wore my flippant attitude and my open arrogance like a badge of honor.
1:59.7	Now, maybe you knew someone like me in high school.
2:02.1	Maybe you even were someone like me in high school. And I know you've crossed paths with grown
2:07.9	adults that never matured past the high school man child that I just described. Either way,
2:14.2	the important part isn't the embarrassing history as much as it is the current reality,
2:20.8	because now I've changed. I've learned. CIA taught me not only to understand my own selfish
2:29.4	nature, but the fact that everybody has a powerful, selfish nature that blinds them.
2:37.4	And knowing the truth of that human nature gives you an incredible advantage.
2:42.3	It's a secret that CIA gives every one of its field officers, and it's amazingly simple to do.
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