EverydaySpy Podcast
CIA Spy: Getting Rich (WITHOUT Working Hard) Is Easy When You Understand This
03 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What secret formula do the wealthy use to get richer?
there's a reason that the rich keep getting richer and it has nothing to do with working harder during my time at cia i learned a pattern that wealthy people use to literally print money while everybody else is stuck playing by the rules this is a formula that isn't taught in grade school or college or even years of advanced education but i promise you that once you see it you'll never forget it
My name is Andrew Bustamante, and I'm a former CIA intelligence officer, New York Times bestselling author, and viral internet personality. I spent seven years operating with CIA's National Clandestine Service all over the world, and now I teach spy skills that help you break barriers and unlock your peak performance.
I've had viral interviews with Diary of a CEO, Sean Ryan, Lex Friedman, Flagrant, and dozens of other top-tier podcasts and mainstream media outlets. If you've seen one of those interviews, go ahead and drop a comment below and tell me what you remember.
The spy skills I teach have helped tens of thousands of people around the world increase their income, decrease their waistline, and shortcut their way to wealth, happiness, and even love. And today, I want to teach you one of those secret spy skills.
Chapter 2: What is the RICE framework and how does it work?
During my first two weeks at CIA, I was taught an important framework that explains how powerful people, wealthy people, influential people build a psychological advantage over the everyday people around them. And that framework is called RICE. So RICE, R-I-C-E, is an acronym for reward, ideology, coercion, and ego.
Chapter 3: Which motivational lever is considered the weakest in the RICE framework?
These four words represent what we call the motivational levers that drive all human behavior. And each of those levers has a different strength and a different value. Now, while there are four different motivational levers, not all of the levers are actually the same in terms of their impact or importance. Of the four levers, we find that coercion is actually the weakest lever.
Chapter 4: Why is ideology the strongest motivational lever for the wealthy?
Which makes sense, because if somebody forces you to do something, if they trick you, or if they shame you or embarrass you into taking some kind of an action, you're very unlikely to ever trust that person or take that action again. So you can see how coercion, inside the acronym RICE, is the weakest of all the motivational levers.
But that should raise a question, which one is the strongest of the four levers?
Chapter 5: What are the six ideologies used by powerful people?
So while we know that coercion is the weakest, CIA taught me that ideology is actually the strongest. And that is the key, that's the secret to how it is that the rich keep getting richer while the rest of us are still playing by the normal rules.
Because the rich, the powerful, the wealthy of the world understand how to use our ideology as a motivational lever to get everyday people to take actions that actually benefit the wealthy and powerful and elite of the world. And there are actually six different ideologies or what's known as six different psychological perspectives that are being used by those powerful people every day.
And that's what I want to teach you today. The first ideology I want to talk about is something called behaviorism. Behaviorism is an ideology that has to do with how you actually behave, the actions that you take. Powerful people understand that you are prone to behave in repeatable patterns all the time. You see it around you everywhere you go.
Whether that repeating pattern is what you eat, or how you drive to the grocery store, or when you go to church, we all have behaviors that we repeat so frequently that they become part of our ideology. Just think about the person who goes to church religiously every Sunday, but still doesn't necessarily act like a church-going person on Wednesday. That's a perfect example of a behaviorism.
Or the person who maintains their gym membership, but never actually goes to the gym. That's another perfect example of behaviorism. They have essentially created a repeating pattern of behavior that feeds the wealthy, that feeds the powerful, that feeds the elite, even though it doesn't actually help the person carrying out that behavior, day to day.
The second ideology that wealthy people use is something called psychodynamic ideology.
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Chapter 6: How do biological and social ideologies influence behavior?
Psychodynamic ideology is something that you may not recognize in yourself because it's tied to your psychology. And that's often rooted all the way back in your childhood and your developmental years.
So whether you are somebody with anxiety or a high risk tolerance, or maybe you like to procrastinate, these are oftentimes psychodynamic ideologies that are tied back to something that you learned during those core developmental years as a child with your mother, your father, your grandparents, in your neighborhood, in your church, with your friends.
Either way, the elite understand that once people have a psychodynamic ideology, they oftentimes will stay within that ideology for the entirety of their lives. The third ideology I want to talk about is something called humanistic ideology. As the name implies, a humanistic ideology describes a person who is very human-centered or relationship-focused.
This is the person who genuinely cares about the starving children in Africa or the hurt puppies in puppy mills around the world. Humanistic ideology are people who are very centered on the idea of humanity, of self-actualization, of oneness with the universe. These are individuals who genuinely believe and are motivated by that version of ideology.
The fourth ideology is something called cognitive ideology. And you might not be surprised to know that cognitive ideology aligns itself with people who really value analytics, people who value data, people who value logical, rational thinking. These are people who fall under the idea of a cognitive ideology.
And the wealthy and powerful of the world know that if you want to win over somebody who is cognitively predisposed to a cognitive ideology, all you have to do is make a rational argument and they will have a predictable behavior. This is exactly the ideology you see in a grocery store when they put up a two-for-one sale or when you come across an online ad offering a deep discount.
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Chapter 7: What actions can you take to leverage these insights for personal success?
These are very cognitive ideological approaches to try to get someone to essentially give their money away, making rich people richer and making that person just a little bit poorer. Now, the last two ideologies are different because they address what's happening in the environment around you rather than you as the individual.
So as a review, we know that the first four ideologies have to do with the behaviors that you carry out, your experiences in your own childhood, how you feel about humanity and oneness and self-actualization, and how you feel about approaching problems with logical, rational thinking.
In contrast, of the last two ideologies, the first one has to do with your own personal biology, the actual chemicals and cellular makeup of your body, of which you have no control. Some people are highly emotional simply because they have hormones that predispose them to high levels of emotion.
Other people struggle with stress because they are chemically unable to process the stress hormone cortisol. Some people have mental disorders and other people are neurodivergent. These are all forms of a biological ideology that the individual themselves can't control, but the wealthy and elite know how to manipulate for their own gain.
That's where you find the culture of pharmaceuticals that we have here in the United States. And it's also why you have more people than ever before signing up to work with therapists and counselors. Because at the end of the day, people believe they have some sort of biological issue that they can't solve without outside help or some sort of pharmaceutical solution.
That's all tied to a biological ideology. The sixth and final ideology is something known as a social ideology, sometimes called a sociocultural ideology.
Like the biological ideology, the sociocultural ideology happens outside of you, outside of you as an individual, because it's defined by the cultural environment that you're brought up in, the cultural environment where you come of age, the cultural environment where you work, It's defined by what are cultural norms, social norms, expectations that exist in the environment where you live.
You can already see how that sociocultural expectation would be different if you were born in Beijing versus if you were born in Park City, Utah. And that applies to everybody all over the world because everywhere you go there are small microcosms of unique sociocultural importance all the way down to the home itself.
And that's how two neighbors can raise their children in completely different ways, even though they only live a few feet apart from each other.
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