Finding Meaning and Self Respect

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I can walk you through three steps right now that can help you dis toar tomorr But none of them are convenient They're all extremely sec The first thing you do is every piece of digital technology you have that is connected to you in any way is now dead. You just let the battery run out forever. forever. You never touch it again, starting at this moment What you have to do is go out and acquire A new one. Realistically, you will not be able to acquire a new one in the United States buying it Because to do so, you would tie it to your credit card, you would tie it to a location, a time, a place, a registered name, whatever else. So you would have to acquire it essentially by theft or through the black market So you would want something because you're going to need the advantage of technology without it being in your name So you go out and you steal a phone. where you steal a laptop, you do whatever you have to do to make sure that you can get on with the password and whatever else that might be is as dirty or as clean as you want that to be. We're all morally flexible here. But now you have a technological device that you can work with And then from there on, you're just doing whatever you have to do, whether you're stealing every step of the way or whether you you run a massive con keepep in mind that We often talk about con men and cons. You know what their root? The word that Kon is a root word for confonfidence That's what a con man is. A con man is a confidence man. Just somebody who is so brazenly confident people around them living in their own perception, not perspective And their perception, they're like, This guy really knows what he's talking about, so I'm going to do what he says So you can run a massive con and that can take care of your finances, that can take care of your lodging, whatever mth, whatever else it is You are whoever you present yourself to be So if you want to go be If you want to be Bill For the afternoon Go tell people your name is Bill. They're not going to question you. So the intelligence, the natural web of intelligence gathering systems we have in the United States and in the world Are they going to believe for long that you're bill A they until you do something that makes them think otherwise. If you are consistent, we talked about consistency being the superpower If you are consistent, they will think you yourre bill forever. What that is that to do? It It's not convenient. It's quite difficult. Is that like required training It does require training Because why do criminals always get caught Because they stop being consistent. Criminals I've I've as I I never hesitate to admit this, but people tell me I should hesitate to admit it. So now I hesitate becausecause of the guidance I've gotten to hesitate, right I like criminals. I'm friends with a number of criminals Because the only people who get me, like right away who get me because we know what it's like to basically abandon all the rules. do our own thing our own way and watch the world just keep turning Most people are so stuck in the in the trap of normal thought and behavior that when I tell them, they just don't just go tell people your name is Bill mostost people are going to say, shh, that's not gonna work. But a criminal will be like, oh, yeah, I did that once. Yeah. I just told everybody my name was Nancy. And dude, and they still believe me. Criminals just get it, right? What happens with criminals is they go to the school of hard knocks. to they learn criminal behavior on the job. Spies go to school We go to the best spy school in the world. We go to Langley's. The farm, right, what's known as Field Tradecraft course, FTC, in a covert location for a covert period of time and covert covert covert. So if anybody from CI iss watching, I'm not breaking any rules. It's all in Wikipedia, but it's not coming from me. Yeah But we do that's how we do it. They train us from hundred years of experience in the best ways to carry out coOvert operations, which are all just criminal activities overseas We learn how to do it the right way so that we don't get caught. We learn how to be consistent. More importantly, we learn how to crereate an operation that has a limited lifespan because the longer it lives, the more at risk you are. So you want operations to be short, concise on the X, off the X Limit your room for mistakes. Criminals want they default to wanting these long term operations because they don't want to have to recreate a new way to make money every fifteen days You mentioned if anybody from the CA is watching. So I've seen you talk about The fact that sort of people that are currently working at the CIA would kind of look down at the people who've left the saya and they ride them, especially if you go public, especially if there's a book and all that kind of stuff. Do you feel the pressure of that to be quiet to not to, you know Um to not do something like this. conversation that we're doing today. I feel the silent judgment It's that's very real I feel it for myself and I feel it for my wife who doesn't appear on camera very often, but who's also former CIA. We both feel the judgment. We know that right now Three days after this is released Somebody's going to send an email on a closed network system inside CI headquarters And there's a bunch of people who are gonna laugh at it, a bunch of people who are going to say that who knows what? It's not a bunch of people you respect probably. A bunch of people who I'm trying to bring honor to Whether I know them or respect them is irrelevant These are people who are out there doing the deed every day And I want to bring them honor And I want to do that in a way that I get to share what they can't share and what They won't share when they leave because they will also feel the silent pressure pressure to The shame, the judgment, right? But the truth is that I've done this now long enough, the first few times that I spoke out publicly the response to being a positive voice for what the sacrifices that people are making It's so refreshing to be of an honest voice that people don't normally hear that it's too important One day I'm going to be gone and my kids are going to look back on all this and they're going to see their dad tryrying to do the right thing for the right reasons And even if my son or daughter ends up at CIA, and even if they get ridiculed for being you' Boost a Monte kid, right? Y dad's a total sellout, whatever it might be L I want them to know You know, Dad was doing what he could to bring honor to the organization, even when he couldn't stay in the organization anymore So you said when you were twenty seven, I think you didn't know what the hell you're doing Um, so Now that you're A few years older and wiser Let me ask you to put on your wise sage hat. and give advice to other twenty seven year olds or even younger, seventeen, eighteen year olds They're just out of high school, maybe going to college trying to figure out this life, this career thing that they're on U what advice would you give them about how to have a career or how to have a life that can be proud of with a powerful question, man Um Have you figured it out yet yourself? No. I think I'm a I'm a grand total of seven days smarter than I was at twenty seven It's not good adverageageer There's still time. There's still time So for all the young people out there deciding what to do I would just say the same thing that I would say that I do say and I will say to my own kids You only have one life. you only have one chance If you spend it doing what other people expect you to do You will wake up to your regret at some point. I woke up when I was thirty eight years old My wife in many ways, is still waking up to it as she watches her grandparents pass and an older generation pass away folks that I've that really have a blessed life are the people who learn early on to live with Their own rules live their own way and live every day as if it's the last day notot necessarily to waste it by being wasteful or silly But to recognize that today is a day to be productive and constructive for yourself If you don't want a career, today is not the day to start pursuing a career just because someone else told you to do it. If you want to learn a language, today's a day to find a way to buy a ticket to another country and learn through immersion If you want a dates, if you want to get married, if you want business todayoday is the day to just go out and take one in that direction And as long as you Every day you just make one new step, just like CIA recruited me. do the next thing. if the step seems like it's too big then there's probably two other steps that you can do before that Just make constant progress, build momentum Mo forward and live on your own terms, that way you don't ever wake up to the regret And it'll be over before you know it whether you regret it or not, it's tr U, what do you think is the meaning of this whole thing? What's the meaning of life? Self respect CIA believes that all people are born with Hear that. That's the sound of busy. To a restaurant, all that shouting and banging might as well be a symphony. It means the long days and longer nights are paying off. 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And on the wall is It's scribbles of opinions and the question in the middle of the wall says, what's the meaning of life? And all these elite operators over the last twenty five or thirty years They all go, they get drunk and they scribble their answer and they circle it with a shharpie, right? Love Family, America, freedom, right? whatever And then they the only thing they have to do is if they're going to write something on there, they have to connect it with something else on the wall, att least one other thing. So if they write love, they can't just leave it floating there. They have to write love in a little bubble and connect it to something else, cononnect it to family, whatever else When you look at that wall The word self respect is on the wall And it's got a circle around it. And then you can't see any other word because of all the things that connect to self respect Dozens of people have written over have written their words down and beenrawn and scribbled over because of all the lines that connect with self respect. So what's the meaning of life From my point of view, I've never seen a better answer It's all self respect. If you don't respect yourself, how can you do anything else? How can you love someone else if you don't have self respect How can you build the business you're proud of if you don't self respect? How can you raise kids? How can you make a difference? How can you pioneer anything? How can you just wake up and have a good day If you don't have self respect