Molly's Game with Molly Bloom

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Education, Careers, Self-improvement, Business

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Molly Bloom’s life story is one-of-a-kind. Her Olympic dreams were dashed, so she planned on going to law school. Instead, she wound up running a high-stakes poker game where hundreds of millions of dollars would change hands in a night. Molly made a lot of money. Celebrities, mafias, and federal informants soon took an interest in her and her game. Eventually, she lost everything and had no one to blame but herself. Her story later became the Academy Award nominated movie, Molly’s Game, and the lessons she learned from her extraordinary journey have tremendous value for the rest of us. This is… A Bit of Optimism. For more on Molly and her work, check out: twitter.com/immollybloom

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0:00.0	Every now and then, I get to meet a person who has a story that is more remarkable than
0:11.8	any fictionalized version that any of us could come up with.
0:15.6	Molly Bloom is one of those people.
0:18.4	If you ever saw the movie or read the book Molly's Game, then you know what I'm talking
0:22.6	about.
0:23.6	She ran an illegal poker game in Los Angeles in New York, in which on some days, people
0:28.7	would win or lose $100 million.
0:32.8	The mob got involved.
0:33.8	She had a gun put in her mouth, federal prosecutors, hidden wiretaps.
0:38.9	The story's absolutely insane, and her accounting of it is even more incredible.
0:46.6	But the thing that inspired me was Molly's feeling of accountability, how she recognized
0:51.4	that she made her own decisions, that she was responsible for the repercussions, and
0:56.6	how she took total ownership of everything that happened.
1:00.5	The rest of us could really learn a thing or two about what it means to take responsibility.
1:06.6	This is a bit of optimism.
1:14.9	Molly Bloom, I gave it a tell you, I was so excited that you were willing to come and have a conversation
1:21.3	because I've seen the movie Molly's Game, and I know you wrote the book on the same topic
1:27.2	and lived the life, and had I not known that it was real, I would have said the story
1:33.3	is way too fantastic to have actually happened.
1:37.2	What crazy mind could actually come up with this incredible work of fiction, only to discover
1:41.9	that it's 100% real, that this was your life.
1:45.7	And of course, after seeing the movie went down the rabbit hole of Wikipedia and reading
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