The CIA Routine That Turns You Into The 1% (Become A F*cking Weapon)
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What is the CIA’s definition of willpower and how does it relate to energy?
If you were to give us like the ultimate survival kit, what would you tell us?
So it's it's a great question. Uh if you believe it or not The answer to most stress isn't in techniques or tools after the stress happens. It's in preparing yourself before the stress happens. So CIA teaches us about something called willpower. Everybody's heard the term willpower, but very few people have defined what willpower is. Most people would argue that willpower is some mixture of discipline and commitment.
Mm-hmm. Right?
Like it's follow-through. I'm just gonna tough it out. That's actually not what willpower is. Willpower in in definition at CIA, willpower according to psychology, is an actual measurable amount of energy.
Mm-hmm.
And energy is measured in kilojoules and those kilojoules are carried in your body. And you it's a mixture of your fitness and your diet and your hydration level. And all of that tells you what your capacity is for willpower. So if you think of like a car, a car has a tank, a gas tank, a fuel tank. When that full when that fuel tank is full, the car can go a long distance. When the fuel tank is empty, the car can't go as far. But There's also the value of the quality of the fuel itself.
Yeah.
If the fuel is a high octane clean fuel, the car can go even further on a full tank than it could go with a lower octane fuel.
Yeah.
So when you compare your body to a car, what that means is you want to fuel your car with willpower, fuel your body with willpower. And that willpower is literally what you put in your body. So we put a lot of uh natural sugars, we put a lot of uh hydrating high fiber uh nutrient dense materials into our system. That's how we're trained to eat. It's how we're trained to drink. It's how we're trained to handle ourselves. We don't carry processed bars unless we have to. We eat off of whatever's local in the community, whatever's actually in the location where we are. So sometimes that's tropical fruit, sometimes that's desert fruit, sometimes that's ground roots, right? You you don't ever really know. So you eat what's what's local, yeah, but you're always trying to fuel your body for the stress that you know is coming.
Yeah.
How can you fuel your body with the right foods to maximize willpower?
So in addition to the breathing techniques and the visualization, that's all stuff you do after the stress has presented itself. But the real secret so the real secret sauce is in preparing yourself for the stress that is yet to come at the risk of talking too much.
No, please do.
Think about what the average person does in the morning.
Mm-hmm.
The morning is one of the most important times to fill your fuel tank. Well, what do most people do? They don't eat a significant breakfast. They drink coffee.
Coffee
is a diuretic. It reduces your hydration. It spikes your chemical levels because of the caffeine. It spikes your acidity in your digestive system because of the acid that's in the coffee. Now it's a habit and it feels good to have a caffeine high and I get why people do it. But it is actually the opposite of what CIA teaches us to do. So, in in contrast, what CIA tells us to do is eat an apple. some strawberries and drink five hundred milliliters of water. Why? Because the apple brings all this fiber with it. The strawberries have all these sugars, natural sugars in it, and the water hydrates your system. So now you're s you're still giving yourself an energy boost. The difference between a caffeine high
and a glucose high that comes from something like strawberries is you know, coff coffee is obviously much higher. But the after effect is the thing that's the most important. You crash after caffeine, but after your strawberry high, you still have apples. They say that they say that the sugar content in an apple
Mm-hmm
is comparable to the sugar content in a candy bar. Well, people eat candy bars all the time. They don't very often eat apples.
Yeah.
S the sugar content is the same, but the the crash in a candy bar happens after like twenty minutes.
Yeah.
There is no crash after you eat an apple. That apple will sustain you for two hours. For two hours.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the CIA’s definition of willpower and how does it relate to energy?
0:00–2:33
2
How can you fuel your body with the right foods to maximize willpower?
2:33–4:39
3
Why does the CIA recommend an apple, strawberries, and water instead of coffee for a morning boost?
4:39–7:14
4
What essential items should be in your everyday carry kit for mobility and survival?
7:14–9:24
5
How do time and distance work together as the CIA’s core safety strategy?
9:24–11:35
6
What practical steps can you take to stay safe in a shady part of town?
11:35–13:48
7
How can introverts leverage their natural strengths to build powerful rapport?
13:48–15:54
8
What is social capital and how can you manage it like financial assets?
15:54–18:40
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