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#095 - George MacGill - Mental Models 102 - The Decision Strikes Back

Modern Wisdom

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Anti-Fragile in the CrossFit Games

CrossFit athlete David Storta is one of the fittest women on the planet. She calls it leaning into discomfort as if you've invited it through the door. You might want to talk about who was the guy from Josh Waitskin. He noticed that parents would constantly have this conversation with their kids, whereas he should feel a bit rubbish and we should just stay and play board games. And I think obviously everybody's almost playing. This weird, quite meta Darwinian game. But you try and take what your parents did right and then what your parents could have or should have done as well. The better childhood you have, the more, the less stuff that you have to change

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