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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

514: How to Make More Winning Decisions with Alec Torelli

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Education, Selfhelp, Thinking, Business, Mental Health, Mockaitis, Collaboration, Career, Speaking, Skills, Meaning, Decisions, Self-improvement, Wins, Health & Fitness, Interview, Fun, Success, Money, Sharpening, Development, Careers, Writing, Training, Winning

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Professional poker player Alec Torelli shares his tips for making wise decisions during high-stakes situations.


— YOU'LL LEARN — 

1) How to keep emotions from overtaking logic. 

2) When to go with your gut. 

3) How to better read people and situations. 


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— ABOUT ALEC— 

Alec Torelli is a professional high stakes poker player turned digital entrepreneur and keynote speaker, who shares how the lessons he learned from poker can be applied to life and business.

Alec is the founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker training platform, and after spending the last 14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks in which he dissects the anatomy of decision making to help others hone the way they make choices.

• Alec’s blog: AlecTorelli.com

• Alec’s Instagram: @alectorelli

• Alec’s Twitter: @AlecTorelli

• Alec’s website: ConsciousPoker.com

• Alec’s YouTube: Conscious Poker


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: Blinkist

• App: SaneBox

• App: Trello

• App: Waking Up

• Video: “Why Meditation Made Me A Bad Person – Weekly Wisdom Episode 8” by Jay Shetty

• Book: Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke

• Book: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by Timothy Gallwey

• Book: Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar

• Book: The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life by Tal Ben-Shahar

• Previous episode: 281: Making Better Decisions by Thinking in Bets with Annie Duke


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McChitis.

0:16.4

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here

0:21.0

for episode 514 with Alec Terrelli.

0:23.4

Alec is a professional poker player who's got some pro tips on making wise decisions.

0:28.0

He'll learn one how to keep emotions from overtaking logic, two when to go with with your gut, and three, how to better read people

0:35.2

and situations.

0:36.2

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to as we've referenced,

0:39.1

it's at all some at your job.com slash Epp as an EP-514 or just tap it right in your podcast at player where it's called

0:46.1

episode notes or description expand that you can click there all the faster now here's

0:51.8

Alex story.

0:52.5

Alex Trelli is a professional high-stakes poker player turned digital

0:55.2

entrepreneur and keynote speaker who shares how the lessons he learned from

0:57.8

poker can be applied to life and business.

1:00.3

Alec is a founder of Conscious Poker, a popular poker trading platform, and after spending the last

1:04.8

14 years making decisions for hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single hand, he now gives talks

1:10.7

where he dissects the anatomy of decision-making to help others hone the way they make choices.

1:16.1

Big thanks to Alec for sharing his wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors.

1:19.6

Check him out.

1:21.6

Now here's Alec.

1:23.0

Alec.

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