353 - Maria Konnikova: How to Look at Life Like a Game and Make Better Choices Because of It

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 10 May 2018

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Maria Konnikova is a journalist. She’s written two New York Times best sellers. One about con artists and having the confidence to get away something. The other is about how detectives think. But now she’s immersed in poker (for her next book)....

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.
0:10.4	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:15.4	What did you know about poker when you first started?
0:17.4	Nothing.
0:18.4	So all together, what are your poker winnings?
0:20.4	Over the last year, I have made a little over $200,000.
0:24.6	$200,000?
0:25.6	Why did you decide?
0:26.6	Okay, I'm going to pick poker and do a book on learning it from zero on.
0:31.6	So I wanted to write about luck.
0:33.6	Kind of the role luck plays in our lives.
0:35.6	What is luck?
0:36.6	How much of our lives do we control?
0:38.6	How can you maximize what you can control?
0:40.6	Someone said looking to game theory.
0:42.6	Can you just write, just what does the phrase game theory mean?
0:45.6	Game theory means if you actually look at the world like a game
0:50.6	where everyone has certain payoffs for certain decisions.
0:54.6	Given that, what is the best way for you strategically to make a decision?
1:07.6	Super excited to have Maria Conocova back on the podcast.
1:11.6	Maria, how's it going?
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