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MIND GAMES: What Poker Can Teach Us About Luck, Skill, and Ourselves

MIND GAMES: What Poker Can Teach Us About Luck, Skill, and Ourselves

FromThe Next Big Idea


MIND GAMES: What Poker Can Teach Us About Luck, Skill, and Ourselves

FromThe Next Big Idea

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Sep 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

You have to play with the hand you’re dealt. At least that’s what we’re always told. But is it really true? How much of what we achieve in life is the product of our pluck and guile, and how much is just dumb luck? To find out, New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova dropped everything and joined the pro poker tour. The lessons were not what she expected.
Released:
Sep 1, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join our host, Rufus Griscom — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.