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EverydaySpy Podcast

Small Gift, Big HACK

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

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

We live in a society that gives gifts. Gifts were designed for two original purposes: 1) to show gratitude, or 2) to win favor. Since the dawn of mass marketing and hallmark holidays, however, gift-giving has mutated into something much less enjoyable and much less useful... until today. In this episode, Andrew gives you the 3 gift-giving HACKS that CIA uses to win favor, influence, and power. Whether you want to shortcut your next promotion or win over your lover, you are only 3 steps away from the perfect gift! 

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0:00.0

My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.

0:08.0

Freedom! Freedom.

0:23.7

Freedom.

0:40.4

So I've been on the road for about the last 30 days, and I still have about another 30 days of travel still ahead of me, because I've been filming a TV show that is travel-based. And this week, we've actually been shooting in Arizona in a place called the Navajo Nation. It is the reservation for

0:46.5

Navajo Native Americans. And I had this awesome experience here that immediately translated

0:53.1

to spy tactics that I want you to have moving forward

0:57.6

for your work, for your career, for your business, and for your everyday life.

1:02.1

So a few days ago, I was out in the evening filming and there's a large crew out here with me,

1:08.7

about 12 people.

1:09.9

And we had a native american

1:11.8

Navajo medicine man who was on set with us helping us with the filming for the day and it was

1:17.5

getting to be evening we had been filming all day and this piercing cold wind set in and it was

1:23.9

just not expected well this wind came in you know, everybody on the crew is very

1:28.9

experienced when it comes to making television. So they broke out their heavy jackets and their

1:33.4

insulated gloves. They had all the right, you know, clothes to wear in this cold weather. But this

1:39.4

medicine man, who was only expecting to come out and spend a few hours with us, ended up being out much longer than he anticipated.

1:46.4

So he did not have the kind of cold weather equipment on hand that the rest of the crew had.

1:53.3

Well, our audio engineer, a tall, really genuine nice guy named John,

1:58.9

our audio engineer was the only person on the crew to see

2:02.6

this medicine man kind of shivering and huddling like behind a rock shelf trying to get out of the wind.

2:09.9

So John actually went over to the medicine man and he offered the man his sock hat, his beanie,

2:16.0

and then he offered the man a pair of gloves. And the medicine man

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