What Do You Want to Want?

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There's almost a little bit of a curse of talent, that if you have abilities that you could deploy in different directions. A lot of the time that means that people get a little bit done everywhere and don't actually make any meaningful progress. The first is knowing what value that i'm optimizing for. It doesn't matter what the answer is, because there is no right answer,. But once you decide that, ha, x is most important to me, X comes first.

Chris Sparks is the former #4 online poker player on the planet, a productivity coach and an investor.

Having a high performance mindset is something everyone wants. Being able to achieve without stress or anxiety, maximising output whilst minimising suffering. As someone who coaches both himself and some of the world's brightest on getting more out of their game, Chris has learned a lot about balancing growth, goals and internal peace.

Expect to learn what it feels like to play in an invite-only Bitcoin Poker Tournament, how Chris evens out his hard-charging nature to become more at ease, whether the outcomes you get in life are impacted by how neurotic you are, my theory around the Anxiety Cost of delayed actions, how to balance intuition with cognition and much more...

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