Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

You may know Nate Silver is an election forecaster, but he's a poker player as well.

And his experiences operating in a world of competition and risk led him to explore

with his fellow gamblers, as well as hedge fund managers, venture capitalist, and many other

kinds of maverick types do differently than other people.

Amongst the findings Nate shares in his new book, On the Edge, The Art of Risking Everything,

are the 13 habits of highly effective risk

takers. Nay and I discuss some of these habits today on the show including exercising

strategic empathy, avoiding the pitfalls of resulting, taking a razor-fold stance towards life, and more.

After the show is over, check at our show notes at Awimp.

I.S. slash risk takers. All right, Nate Silver, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Brett.

So people probably know you as the election forecaster,

but what they might not know is you've had a career as a professional poker player.

Tell us about that.

Yeah, so I was one of the, at that point, relatively young kids, like I said I was in my

late 20s during the poker boom era, which was launched with Chris Moneymaker,

who was this amateur who won the World Series of poker in 2003, and the boom in internet poker.

So I went to college, had a consulting job out of college that

frankly I kind of hated, but a friend at the workplace was getting a poker game

started and being a competitive guy, I started practicing online,

playing like free poker, and like free poker doesn't really work, right?

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