Sublime

1. Recognize your natural talents.

Our goal is to get our reflexive minds to execute on our deliberative minds’ best intentions. Poker players don’t need to know the underlying science to understand the difficulty of reconciling the two systems. Poker players have to make multiple decisions with significant financial consequences in a compressed time frame, and do it in a way that l

Our lives are better if we have a larger portfolio of skills and opportunities available to us.

There’s never a default with anything. It’s always a matter of deliberation. Even seven-deuce—the worst hand, statistically speaking, that you can be dealt—can be playable in the right circumstances. The thing is, the circumstances are usually not right—and the hyper-aggressive player may run over everyone for a while and forget that at some point,

Recognize that knowing what someone (including you) is like will tell you what you can expect from them.

learning occurs when you get lots of feedback tied closely in time to decisions and actions.

Understand the differences between right-brained and left-brained thinking.

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