Why Others Fail and You Don’t Have to

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

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Everyone loves to talk about opportunity, hope, and new beginnings at the start of a new year. But a conversation about Failure might be more productive. In this episode, Andrew breaks down how elite operatives view, process, and ultimately avoid failure even when the odds are against them. If you have felt the sting of failure, or worry that you may be failing, this is a conversation you don't want to miss...

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0:00.0	My name is Andrew Bustamante, and this is everyday espionage.
0:07.0	Freedom! Freedom. Freedom. Freedom.
0:23.6	Over Thanksgiving in 2020, I ran the newest mission in my Operation Real Time Spy Training Simulation
0:35.6	series.
0:36.6	If you haven't found Operation Real Time, you can find it on the website, Everydayspy.com,
0:40.7	or you can just go right away to Everydayspy.com forward slash operations.
0:45.4	It's been a blast to run Operation Real Time and to see people come in and test themselves
0:50.3	in this Real Time Spy simulation.
0:53.8	Now, over Thanksgiving, I ran the next event in that series, which was a virtual mission
0:59.6	called Conspiracy.
1:01.5	And I ran conspiracy myself.
1:03.5	It was live.
1:04.3	It was real time.
1:05.1	The weekend of Thanksgiving.
1:06.1	It was a blast.
1:07.4	But in the mission, participants were pitted against each other in a race to save lives and stop a threat and crack a conspiracy all along the way.
1:18.5	The goal of the operation was, of course, to be fun and to teach people some new skills, but it was also designed to be very, very challenging.
1:27.4	Not only did competitors have to operate in a nearly non-stop ongoing scenario that lasted
1:33.3	48 hours, but they also had to choose when they would share information with each other
1:39.7	and when they would not share information.
1:43.0	And then I also had many new spy skills that I was throwing at them to see them wrestle
1:48.9	through and learn and master those spy skills along the way.
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