I will be one of the first people to admit that CIA has a terrible reputation.

That bad reputation is kind of well earned. It's deserved because for many decades, CIA has

become very, very good at doing very, very bad things. Sometimes those things are

sabotaged. Sometimes those things are overthrowing government. Sometimes those things are failed

operations that become public laughing stocks. But the thing to understand is that for all the bad

reputation that CIA has earned by the public discovering the things that it's done, it has done so many

other operations that were successful, so many things in secret, so many things still yet

undiscovered and undisclosed that nobody knows about. Now, when I was at CIA, I learned a very

important lesson early on in my training, a lesson that

differentiated between the idea of motivation and manipulation.

Now, going back to CIA's reputation, the whole world knows that CIA is masterful at

manipulation.

But here's what's so interesting.

The same skills that go into manipulation are actually also used in motivation.

And all those successful operations, all those secret missions that nobody ever discovered and still don't know about, those were examples where motivation were used.

And that motivation was so powerful that people still to this day are motivated

not to talk about the operation.

So why am I sharing this?

I'm sharing this because this is such a powerful lesson in life.

And I've used this lesson to grow my business, to grow my family, to grow my influence,

to grow my friends, Understanding that motivation and manipulation

are two sides of the same coin absolutely transforms your trajectory for success, your future

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