Nic McKinley

Stop being who you are and start being who God designed you to be. We have this, our two selves, right? And these two selves, if anybody is ever honest with themselves, they both exist, right? You have the good side of you and the bad side of you. And which side gets stronger? The side that you feed.

Stop being who you are and start being who God designed you to be. We have this, our two selves, right? And these two selves, if anybody is ever honest with themselves, they both exist, right? You have the good side of you and the bad side of you. And which side gets stronger? The side that you feed.

So it's constantly trying to become what Aristotle used the word praus, which basically means that it was used to describe a war horse, this extremely powerful horse that was trained and designed to run into battle and run people over. It was a destruction machine. Yet, that powerful horse was under the control of the writer. And so the question is, what are you under control over of, right?

So it's constantly trying to become what Aristotle used the word praus, which basically means that it was used to describe a war horse, this extremely powerful horse that was trained and designed to run into battle and run people over. It was a destruction machine. Yet, that powerful horse was under the control of the writer. And so the question is, what are you under control over of, right?

What has control of you? I have zero social media apps on my phone. Those are on another phone. And the reason why is because I'm not going to sit there and just scroll the, you know, doom scroll X or Instagram or any of these different platforms because I don't want to feed that side of me. And the algorithms are going to like like I know I can't defeat the algorithms.

What has control of you? I have zero social media apps on my phone. Those are on another phone. And the reason why is because I'm not going to sit there and just scroll the, you know, doom scroll X or Instagram or any of these different platforms because I don't want to feed that side of me. And the algorithms are going to like like I know I can't defeat the algorithms.

So the only way I can defeat those algorithms is to put it on something else so that the phone that I have with me all the time doesn't have any of that stuff on it. So, so taking deliberate steps to not be that person anymore, if that makes sense, right?

So the only way I can defeat those algorithms is to put it on something else so that the phone that I have with me all the time doesn't have any of that stuff on it. So, so taking deliberate steps to not be that person anymore, if that makes sense, right?

I mean, with, with the training I have from obviously special ops in the military, you know, a kinetic unit at the CIA, what are the most selective units at the CIA? I know how to destroy some things and I'm pretty good at it, but that was, that was the then me, the now me. is building things, right? I'm building AI platforms. I'm building data sets for industry.

I mean, with, with the training I have from obviously special ops in the military, you know, a kinetic unit at the CIA, what are the most selective units at the CIA? I know how to destroy some things and I'm pretty good at it, but that was, that was the then me, the now me. is building things, right? I'm building AI platforms. I'm building data sets for industry.

I'm building a nonprofit that is facilitating counter-human trafficking operations for law enforcement at an extreme scale, right? I'm building things. I'm trying to make the world a significantly better place. And what I used to do was primarily destruction related, but it was the end goal was to make the world a safer place. Whether or not we made the world better, history will tell.

I'm building a nonprofit that is facilitating counter-human trafficking operations for law enforcement at an extreme scale, right? I'm building things. I'm trying to make the world a significantly better place. And what I used to do was primarily destruction related, but it was the end goal was to make the world a safer place. Whether or not we made the world better, history will tell.

But it was definitely to make the world a safer place in the short and medium term, at least.

But it was definitely to make the world a safer place in the short and medium term, at least.

It's a really interesting question. The special operations community has been spending years. billions of dollars over its lifetime trying to figure out that very question.

It's a really interesting question. The special operations community has been spending years. billions of dollars over its lifetime trying to figure out that very question.

How can you have somebody who has an absolutely terrible childhood and somebody who has a normal childhood and somebody who has an extraordinary childhood all end up graduating and yet the same versions of those people also didn't graduate? They've been trying to figure out that for years and nobody nobody really knows.

How can you have somebody who has an absolutely terrible childhood and somebody who has a normal childhood and somebody who has an extraordinary childhood all end up graduating and yet the same versions of those people also didn't graduate? They've been trying to figure out that for years and nobody nobody really knows.

I know for me, it has, you know, there's the guys like Jocko who like to talk about discipline. And yeah, that's that's a that's a downstream effect of a decision. So when I went into pararescue, I knew that I had a 92 percent chance of not making it right. Eight out of 100 people graduate statistically, at least at the time. I have no idea what it is now.

I know for me, it has, you know, there's the guys like Jocko who like to talk about discipline. And yeah, that's that's a that's a downstream effect of a decision. So when I went into pararescue, I knew that I had a 92 percent chance of not making it right. Eight out of 100 people graduate statistically, at least at the time. I have no idea what it is now.