World Poker Champion On The Science Of Decision Making - Chris Sparks

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Chris Sparks is a retired professional poker player, recently ranked in the top 20 online cash game players in the world. He’s also the Founder of Forcing Function where he teaches elite poker frameworks to a select group of twelve investors and executives in meaningful companies, and the author of Experiment Without Limits, a comprehensive workbook for achieving peak performance and leads workshops on decision-making, systems thinking, and performance architecture to organisations and investment teams. In the conversation we talk about what we can learn from the world of poker around high performance and how systems thinking and decision making is crucial for success. Enjoy!

00:00 Intro
02:17 Being a professional poker player
06:00 The 'Red Queen' Effect
08:18 The psychological advantage and self-deception
13:04 Online vs real life poker
20:16 Relativistic skills
25:24 Having a mindset of abundance
32:27 Applying lessons from poker to your life
50:15 Understanding other peoples' problems better than our own
54:21 Experiment Without Limits
01:02:14 The power of objectivity
01:18:25 Perfectionistic tendencies
01:25:00 Deciding your priorities
01:28:22 Being a performance coach
01:42:31 Realising everything is a choice
01:47:40 The status quo bias and forcing functions
01:58:27 Chris' Free Performance Assessment


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Forcing Function Performance Assessment - https://www.forcingfunction.com/assessment
Peak Performance Workbook (free download) - http://www.experimentwithoutlimits.com
Forcing Function Hour Podcast - http://www.forcingfunctionhour.com
Group Coaching Program (Cohort 4 launches Sept) - https://www.teamperformancetraining.com
Forcing Function Performance Library - https://www.forcingfunction.com/library
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