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Deep Dive with Ali AbdaalWorld Poker Champion On The Science Of Decision Making - Chris Sparks
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EPISODE INFO
- Released
- September 1, 2022
- Duration
- 2h 4m
- Channel
- Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Subscribe to LifeNotes 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes_deepdive Go to https://shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. To give Shopify a try, go to https://shopify.com/aliabdaal. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter where I share actionable productivity tips, practical life advice, and high-quality insights from across the web directly to your inbox. 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast Chris Sparks is a retired professional poker player, recently ranked in the top 20 online cash game players in the world. He’s also the Founder of Forcing Function where he teaches elite poker frameworks to a select group of twelve investors and executives in meaningful companies, and the author of Experiment Without Limits, a comprehensive workbook for achieving peak performance and leads workshops on decision-making, systems thinking, and performance architecture to organisations and investment teams. In the conversation we talk about what we can learn from the world of poker around high performance and how systems thinking and decision making is crucial for success. Enjoy! 00:00 Intro 02:17 Being a professional poker player 06:00 The 'Red Queen' Effect 08:18 The psychological advantage and self-deception 13:04 Online vs real life poker 20:16 Relativistic skills 25:24 Having a mindset of abundance 32:27 Applying lessons from poker to your life 50:15 Understanding other peoples' problems better than our own 54:21 Experiment Without Limits 01:02:14 The power of objectivity 01:18:25 Perfectionistic tendencies 01:25:00 Deciding your priorities 01:28:22 Being a performance coach 01:42:31 Realising everything is a choice 01:47:40 The status quo bias and forcing functions 01:58:27 Chris' Free Performance Assessment 🔗 CONNECT WITH CHRIS 💻 Website - https://www.forcingfunction.com/assessment 🎙Forcing Function Hour Podcast http://www.forcingfunctionhour.com 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/sparksremarks?lang=en 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sparksremarks/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED Forcing Function Performance Assessment - https://www.forcingfunction.com/assessment Peak Performance Workbook (free download) - http://www.experimentwithoutlimits.com Forcing Function Hour Podcast - http://www.forcingfunctionhour.com Group Coaching Program (Cohort 4 launches Sept) - https://www.teamperformancetraining.com Forcing Function Performance Library - https://www.forcingfunction.com/library Deep Dive with Noah Kagan - https://youtu.be/B4rVZW1YJB0 Deep Dive with Grace Beverley - https://youtu.be/7_hNRR6K6z4 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover the philosophies, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. Want to start your own podcast? We use Transistor! https://go.aliabdaal.com/transistor 🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... 📙 SPONSORED BY SHORTFORM This episode is kindly brought to you by Shortform, the world's best provider of guides for non-fiction books. Shortform gives you comprehensive coverage of thousands of books, the key ideas, clearly and simply explained, plus smart commentary and analysis. It’s like your smartest friend teaching you about a book. Go to www.shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 👨💻 SPONSORED BY SHOPIFY This episode is kindly brought to you by Shopify. Shopify offers an easy to use, all-in-one commerce platform for anyone -regardless of technical ability and experience - to start, grow, and manage a business. Shopify lets you sell online, in-person and on all major social platforms and it’s what I’m using to sell my essentali stationary as well as upcoming digital and physical products. To give Shopify a try, go to https://shopify.com/aliabdaal. 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜
SPEAKERS
Chris Sparks
guestWorld poker champion and performance/executive coach focused on decision-making, experimentation, and productivity.
Ali Abdaal
hostDoctor-turned-YouTuber, entrepreneur, and podcast host of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal.
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, featuring Chris Sparks and Ali Abdaal, World Poker Champion On The Science Of Decision Making - Chris Sparks explores Poker-driven frameworks for expected value, experiments, and performance under uncertainty Chris Sparks explains how skills developed in professional poker—game theory, systems thinking, and psychology—translate into decision-making and performance in business and life.
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