#434 - Chris Sparks - The Mindset Rules Of A Poker Professional
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 12 February 2022
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Chris Sparks is the former #4 online poker player on the planet, a productivity coach and an investor.
Having a high performance mindset is something everyone wants. Being able to achieve without stress or anxiety, maximising output whilst minimising suffering. As someone who coaches both himself and some of the world's brightest on getting more out of their game, Chris has learned a lot about balancing growth, goals and internal peace.
Expect to learn what it feels like to play in an invite-only Bitcoin Poker Tournament, how Chris evens out his hard-charging nature to become more at ease, whether the outcomes you get in life are impacted by how neurotic you are, my theory around the Anxiety Cost of delayed actions, how to balance intuition with cognition and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. |
| 0:02.6 | My guest today is Chris Barks, he's the former number 4 online poker player on the planet, |
| 0:07.8 | a productivity coach and an investor. |
| 0:10.8 | Having a high performance mindset is something everyone wants, being able to achieve without |
| 0:15.5 | stress or anxiety, maximising output whilst minimising suffering. |
| 0:20.2 | As someone who coaches both himself and some of the world's brightest and getting more |
| 0:24.5 | out of their game, Chris has learned a lot about balancing growth, goals and internal |
| 0:29.3 | peace. |
| 0:30.3 | Expect to learn what it feels like to play an invite only Bitcoin poker tournament, how |
| 0:34.9 | Chris evens out his hard charging nature to become more at ease. |
| 0:38.8 | Whether the outcomes you get in life are impacted by how neurotic you are, my theory around |
| 0:43.0 | the anxiety cost of delayed actions, how to balance intuition with cognition and much more. |
| 0:50.1 | Don't forget if you want to join the conversation with 2500 other people who all listen to Modern |
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| 1:04.6 | plus everybody else that's a part of the community, so you get to see what it is that I've been |
| 1:08.6 | getting up to in New York with Douglas Murray and John Peterson. |
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