Modern Wisdom

#530 - Shawn Ryan - Navy Seal To CIA Contractor

Sep 24, 2022

01:51:33

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The Importance of Being Open to Learning and Adaptable in Today's World

01:17

The Importance of Negative Role Models

00:50

I Can't Wait to Be a Dad

01:29

The Spiraling Lunacy of Elites Shows Up in the Most Benign Places

02:34

Introduction

3min

What Makes a Good Student?

2min

How to Shoot Keanu's Keanu X-Men in a Fast-Cast Movie

2min

Movie Critics and Fans Have Never Decided More

2min

Diversity Is a Signal to People, Right?

2min

Is Diversity a Bad Idea?

2min

The Spiraling Lunacy of Elites Shows Up in the Most Benign Places

3min

The Midwitt Appeal Theorem

3min

What Do You Feel Good About if Nothing Matters?

2min

10.

PTSD

2min

11.

The Carl Goost Off Is a Huge Rocket Launcher

2min

12.

Do You Have a Predisposition to Let the Team Down?

2min

13.

How Do You Get Back to Being an Effective Pairing in a Team?

3min

14.

What Has Changed From You at 18?

2min

15.

Why Are You Angry About People Taking the Country for Granted?

2min

16.

You Can't Control the Things You Cant Control.

2min

17.

You're 24?

2min

18.

Is There a Difference?

2min

19.

Do You Have a Role Model Around You?

2min

20.

Cia

5min

21.

How the Fuck Did You Pass Them?

3min

22.

What's the Difference Between a Seal and a Marine?

2min

23.

You Know, It's a Fucking Team

2min

24.

CIA Seals to CIA, No Bonding

2min

25.

Did It Feel Like a Nerfed Version of the World?

2min

26.

You're One of Only Three People in a Country

2min

27.

Is the Agency Continued to Move You With Momentum?

2min

28.

What's the Future of Warfare?

3min

29.

Are You a Specialist on Global Geopolitics?

3min

30.

Is a Democracy Compatible With a Long Term Effectiveness?

3min

31.

Is the Internet Condensing Power Into the House of Very Few?

2min

32.

The Biggest Mistake in Personal Security?

2min

33.

The Zombie Apocalypse

4min

34.

The Biggest Issue With Home Security Today

2min

35.

13 Reasons Not to Get Famous

3min

36.

How to Deal With Threats in Public

3min

37.

Are You a Duma Optimist?

3min

38.

Is There a Thousand Grenades in a Garage?

2min

39.

What Do You Think Your Best Friend Will Want for You When He Dies?

2min

40.

Dad, What's the Transition Like?

3min

41.

I Can't Wait, Man. I'm Not a Father Yet.

3min

42.

The Golden Years Are Here

2min

43.

How Did You Quit Drinking?

4min

44.

The Hardest Thing About Putting the Bottle Down for You?

2min

45.

How to Get Away From a Dependency

3min

46.

Breaking Role Models Around Age

2min

47.

What the Fuck's on the Other Side of This?

2min

Shawn Ryan is a former US Navy SEAL, former contractor for the CIA and a podcaster.

The world's special operations are done in the darkness. If Navy SEALs are a spectre then CIA Contractors are their shadows. Shawn spent decades working behind enemy lines all over the world and has some crazy insights into that life, plus how it feels to re-integrate back into normal society.

Expect to learn what it's like to train Keanu Reeves for John Wick, why physical abuse from your fellow SEALs might be just what you need, the crazy breadth of tasks CIA contractors are asked to complete, why the establishment elite are losing touch with every day people, Shawn's reflections on sobriety after drinking to deal with his anger and much more...

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