Erik Seidel, every mention
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#89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry
- ▶ 1:17 Shane Parrish Her newest book, The Biggest Bluff, tells the incredible story of how she convinced one of the best poker players in the world, Eric Seidel, to teach her how to play.
- ▶ 2:53 Maria Konnikova When I first met the person who would end up becoming my coach and my mentor for, for many years, and is one of the central characters of The Biggest Bluff, Eric Seidel, I shocked him by not knowing how many cards were in a deck. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:57 Shane Parrish Before we, we get to your meeting with Eric, um, there's, I just want to push back slightly on that and hear your take on this, which is, I think it's Nassim Taleb who sort of has a theory that we can't use games as models for real life.
- ▶ 14:27 Shane Parrish Um, but before we get there, we have to, how did you pick Eric as your mentor before he even knew you? 17 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:36 Shane Parrish Um, what, what was Eric's, like, lesson plan for you? 24 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:07 Maria Konnikova What I should be doing if I didn't have Eric to direct me.
- ▶ 47:07 Maria Konnikova In poker, there's this idea called tilt, which Eric introduced me to and which is just, it became one of my favorite words in the world.
- ▶ 1:16:27 Maria Konnikova Improve at poker and become a much better player because I had a teacher who always, that's what he stressed. 19 times in the scene