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Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman

📈 Steal our playbook on how to spot business trends Episode 602: Sam Parr and Shaan Puri talk about how to 10x your odds of success.

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Jun 28, 202458mWatch on YouTube

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EPISODE INFO

Released: June 28, 2024
Duration: 58m
Channel: My First Million
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

📈 Steal our playbook on how to spot business trends https://clickhubspot.com/bst Episode 602: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about how to 10x your odds of success. — Show Notes: (0:00) Ed Thorp and the mathematics of gambling (7:51) World's first hedge fund (12:12) Sam and Shaan revisit “The Game” (16:06) The Feynman technique for learning (21:14) Shaan's one criteria for action (24:58) Why you don't need privilege to start (29:06) Playing "the game" of business (33:37) Switching to better games (36:15) How the Roger Bannister Effect crushes limiting beliefs (40:13) Step 0: Believe it can be done — Links:
Ed Thorp biography - https://tinyurl.com/yjcp4645
Beat The Dealer - https://tinyurl.com/yc426fc5
Ed Thorp website - https://www.edwardothorp.com/
The Game - https://tinyurl.com/3kh3xfhn
Jack Smith’s episode - https://tinyurl.com/yc4zdnem
Kaggle - https://www.kaggle.com/
Bringing Down The House - https://tinyurl.com/4txm492n
Wander - https://www.wander.com/mfm (Enter to win a free trip and use code MFM300 at checkout for $300 off your booking)
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Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
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Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/
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Shaan's weekly email - https://www.shaanpuri.com
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My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

SPEAKERS

Sam Parr
host
Entrepreneur and podcaster; co-host of My First Million and founder of The Hustle/Trends.
Shaan Puri
host
Entrepreneur and podcaster; co-host of My First Million.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of My First Million, featuring Sam Parr and Shaan Puri, Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman explores Ed Thorp, Curiosity-Driven Work, and Why Belief Is Step Zero Sam Parr tells the story of Ed Thorp, a math prodigy who beat blackjack and roulette with probability, built an early wearable computer, and went on to run one of the first quant hedge funds.

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