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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 it just might be inaccurate.
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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.
- When making bets with friends, it’s probably best to not make any bets that can be interpreted as negative, such as betting your friend’s kid won’...
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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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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 op...
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It’s Hard For People To Make Bets That Hedge Against Their Identity
People will hedge against disaster with fire insurance but are less likely to hedge against their marriage with a prenup (only about 5% of married couples have a prenup).
We have this idea that if we do hedge against something, somehow if the bad thing happens, we caused it. And this is pa...
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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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Open-minded people are more creative
A recent study has shown that open-minded individuals tend to be more creative and willing to have new experiences.
The result led to the idea that this kind of people have the tendency to come up with creative solutions as well as being more flexible when working in an environ...
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- Stay calm. If you lose your temper – you lose.
- Use facts as evidence for your position.
- Ask questions.
- Use logic to undermine your opponent.
- Appeal to worthy motives
The Morally Good Bias
A study found that when subjects were asked to think about criminal offenders, people were more willing to say that a person’s true self is morally bad.
The more people think that a person’s true self is morally bad, the more they support retributive punishment. The idea that the true self...
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