'How a $10k poker win changed how I think'
Alex O'Brien,
BBC,
Apr 25, 2022
From last year, but still worth sharing. To be clear, what changed Alex O'Brien's thinking wasn't the win, it was the training she received in preparation for a "heads-up match" with a prominent poker player after having won the $10k win. What struck me was how her relation to 'truth' changed. "what most of us think of as a 'prediction' is 'heads' or 'tails.' However, a trader or poker player would say 'equally likely to be either' and act accordingly." When you look at it this way, "It means being less hard on myself when something turns out poorly, as long as I did everything I could to achieve a good outcome." I think a lot of things are like that. Baseball. Health. Life. "In life, too, we can do all the right things and still lose.... The biggest risk in life is to take no risk at all."
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