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Traits of Top Poker Players
The top 500 poker players tend to be brilliant in game theory and in making real-time, high-stakes decisions.
Just because you’re smart doesn’t mean that you can become a great player. you have to be smart in a very particular way.
You need to be curious about being wrong and stay open-minded and you have to be so incredibly hungry to collide with corrective information. You have to be open-minded to the corrective information.
Open-mindedness is the number one trait of a top poker player.
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In order to really succeed at the top levels of the game, you have to be so open-minded. You have to be so willing to ponder on a daily basis the idea that you might be wrong, the idea that the things that you think to be true or what you think about an opponent — that...
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I do think that one of the things that poker teaches you is that you shouldn’t assume that just because people are really skillful in one domain that that’s going to transfer. Because I think that that ability can be very, very domain-specific.
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Lessons From Poker
It’s hard to be happy playing poker because the losses hurt much more than the happiness you gain from winning. Instead, focus on the process.
There’s this huge asymmetry between how sad people are when they lose versus how happy they are when they win. It’s one of those things that, unless...
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Can Thinking Probabilistically Make Our Decisions Worse Rather Than Better?
- If you’re in savannah and you hear rustling in the grass, you don’t want to spend time thinking about the probability that it’s a lion.
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