The Most Dangerous Stories From A Professional Card Counter - Steven Bridges - #687

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09/30/23

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59m

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Steven Bridges is a professional gambler and mostly-legal card counter.

If you've seen the movie 21, you'll know that it's possible to count cards while playing Blackjack in a casino to beat the house. But this isn't just limited to the movies, Steven is part of a team who takes on the biggest casinos in the world using hardcore maths, disguises and secret signals to win big.

Expect to learn the details of how a team of players is needed to take on a casino, how Steven chooses which casinos to count at, what are the best and worst places to play Blackjack in Vegas, the most amount of money Steven has made and lost in a single session, how he deals with losing absurd amounts of money, just how difficult it actually is to count cards and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) What Does Steven Do For Work? (07:29) The Dynamics of a Card-Counting Team (15:30) Is Card-Counting Legal? (19:30) Getting Recognised & Kicked Out of Casinos (23:59) Is Card-Counting Fun or Stressful? (34:58) The Feeling of Losing Significant Money (38:12) Some of Steven’s Best Games Played (40:50) The Challenges of Carrying Huge Amounts of Cash Around (48:14) How to Not Be Recognised When You Are Well-Known (56:04) Building Relationships with Dealers (59:35) Where to Find Steven

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8 Strategies For Avoiding A Life You Hate - Dr Gad Saad - #686

September 28, 2023

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81m

Dr Gad Saad is an Evolutionary Psychologist, Professor of Marketing at Concordia University, a podcaster and an author.

In today’s fast-paced world, happiness and contentment often seem elusive. By taking an evolutionary lens on happiness, we can gain deeper insight into why we are the way we are and decode the contributing elements to living a good life.

Expect to learn where happiness comes from, why evolution cursed humans with the ability to feel existential discontent, what people get wrong about defining and understanding happiness, what role genetics plays, how to pick the right partner, whether married people are more happy on average, why more more sex equal doesn’t always equal more happiness, how you can become more anti-fragile and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Why Has Evolution Allowed Us to Feel Negative Emotions? (06:33) What We Can Learn About Stress From Zebras (13:19) What People Get Wrong About Happiness (18:49) Key Factors for a Happy Life (27:54) Happiness Differences Between Political Orientations (32:48) Are Married People More Happy? (39:16) How Much Sex Should We Be Having? (41:43) Loving Your Work Vs Being a Workaholic (49:44) The Differences of Optimising for Pleasure & Optimising for Low Risk (1:00:00) Does Everything Happen for a Reason? (1:11:14) How to Be Anti-Fragile to Criticism (1:18:07) A Simplified Guide to Happiness (1:21:34) Where to Find Gad

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17 Raw Lessons About Human Nature - Steven Bartlett - #688

October 2, 2023

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125m

Steven Bartlett is the Founder of Social Chain, an entrepreneur, a podcaster and an author.

How to become a functioning human is a difficult skill to work out. Should I focus on achieving goals or inner peace? Can I become confident without being arrogant? Thankfully Steven has spent the last 2 years distilling a ton of lessons into his new book, and today we get to go through my favourites.

Expect to learn Steven’s equation for unbreakable discipline, the biggest lesson from dealing with mainstream media pile-ons, why there are so few actual practitioners in the world, how to stop being your biggest critic, why your weirdness is the ultimate competitive advantage, how Steven discovered he was riddled with fake ambition and much more...⁣⁣

Timestamps:

(00:00) The Frame Matters More Than the Picture (07:33) You Don’t Get to Choose What You Believe (21:29) Why Self Respect is So Important (35:12) Most People Strategise Instead of Executing (47:51) Are You Driven or Being Dragged? (58:54) The Loneliness & Hedonism of Elite Achievers (1:06:30) Why You Need to Sweat the Small Stuff (1:15:09) Do the Thing (1:19:28) Pressure is a Great Privilege (1:25:02) Steven’s Experience Becoming a Person of Public Interest (1:35:49) Do Our Beliefs Limit Us? (1:41:42) Context Is Worth More Than Skills (1:46:25) How to Avoid the Trap of Mono-Thinking (1:58:12) Fame Changes Everybody Around You (2:06:20) Where to Find Steven

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