Ed Calderon
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But then there's something inside you where that kind of, those opportunities come.
Like with a police officer, where you realize you can just pay a little bit of money and get out of a thing.
And then you realize you can pay a little bit of money or do a favor to get your kids in a better school or something like that.
But there comes opportunities where you โ where, all right, if I do this little thing, I can make โ I can get a huge promotion.
I can get a huge increase in my power.
I can get a lot of money.
And something inside you says no.
That's not right.
And I wonder what that is.
Because like โ
Yeah, because it feels different than the legal systems within which you operate.
There's some kind of basic human integrity, human decency.
I wonder if that's constructed or it's always there.
Again, nature versus nurture.
What does it take to be a man, the lieutenant colonel, who maintains integrity after assassination attempts?
Is it possible for a normal human to do that, or again, is it genetic?
Money aside, so like a Hummer aside, how much of a motivator is fear?
It's a big one.