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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Peter Birmingham, in yours truly Duncan polymers, Peter, welcome back. How is everything today? Thanks, ray. Once again, apologies to the listener for listeners for bailing on you at the last minute last week. Smaller emergency couldn't be helped. I left you in I left you in good hands with tonka and anyway, that's the important thing. Very good and why are we excited today? Like super excited today. We are very excited today because we have true bona FIDE clinical psychologist with us today Duncan. That is doctor Michael J Whitman. That is exactly correct and let me briefly give an introduction to doctor Michael. So doctor Michael Whitman is a licensed clinical psychologist, very important license, right? With a private practice primarily in Beverly Hills as well as Manhattan beach. So we're close to my home here. He's been practicing psychotherapy for over 20 years. He is also what I would call a meta therapist in the sense that he has experience with training and educating fellow therapists for a significant part of his career, both in and out of private practice. He is the author of a psychological analysis of tennis, which you can find on Amazon, which explores the mental aspect of the game, and he currently holds a podcast called the shrink in Beverly Hills where he introduced variety of people, including many of his associates in the practice. Previously, he was the host of the doctor Michael Whitman show on LA talk radio dot com and last but not least, doctor Michael is an avid poker player and a very good one of that as I can confirm from her personal battles on the field. Michael, welcome to the show. Oh, that was too except being a very good poker player or anything else. I have a poker player though and I do love to try to get better and learn and the psychological part intrigues me. I'm very happy to be here with you guys. Thanks for that nice intro. Absolutely. Absolutely. And speaking of interest, I just want to start with a quote you quoted as well as one of your quotes, right? I couldn't help, but finding this, you made this quote from an author that I really love and it was actually my introduction to psychotherapy as a college student, doctor Irving yalom, he wrote when Nietzsche wept. It was one of the first books I read about psychotherapy. And his code is once attitude towards one's situation is the very cracks of human being. And then you quote, which is something that I would like to explore if that's okay with you. The way in which one person deals with the situation varies from the way another person deals with the exact same situation. So while we may not always see it, there's often an opportunity for growth and understanding in adverse circumstances. That's such a beautiful code. You want to expand on that a little bit? Sure. Yeah, I mean, doctor gallow is an amazing author, you know, in person. And so my personal connection with him is, I reached out to him a few times, and we consider him sort of a rockstar, he's the fill ivy, let's say, of psychotherapists. And all over the world, people know him. Even in Greece, there's lines to buy his books out the block, right? So
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Peter Birmingham, in yours truly Duncan polymers, Peter, welcome back. How is everything today? Thanks, ray. Once again, apologies to the listener for listeners for bailing on you at the last minute last week. Smaller emergency couldn't be helped. I left you in I left you in good hands with tonka and anyway, that's the important thing. Very good and why are we excited today? Like super excited today. We are very excited today because we have true bona FIDE clinical psychologist with us today Duncan. That is doctor Michael J Whitman. That is exactly correct and let me briefly give an introduction to doctor Michael. So doctor Michael Whitman is a licensed clinical psychologist, very important license, right? With a private practice primarily in Beverly Hills as well as Manhattan beach. So we're close to my home here. He's been practicing psychotherapy for over 20 years. He is also what I would call a meta therapist in the sense that he has experience with training and educating fellow therapists for a significant part of his career, both in and out of private practice. He is the author of a psychological analysis of tennis, which you can find on Amazon, which explores the mental aspect of the game, and he currently holds a podcast called the shrink in Beverly Hills where he introduced variety of people, including many of his associates in the practice. Previously, he was the host of the doctor Michael Whitman show on LA talk radio dot com and last but not least, doctor Michael is an avid poker player and a very good one of that as I can confirm from her personal battles on the field. Michael, welcome to the show. Oh, that was too except being a very good poker player or anything else. I have a poker player though and I do love to try to get better and learn and the psychological part intrigues me. I'm very happy to be here with you guys. Thanks for that nice intro. Absolutely. Absolutely. And speaking of interest, I just want to start with a quote you quoted as well as one of your quotes, right? I couldn't help, but finding this, you made this quote from an author that I really love and it was actually my introduction to psychotherapy as a college student, doctor Irving yalom, he wrote when Nietzsche wept. It was one of the first books I read about psychotherapy. And his code is once attitude towards one's situation is the very cracks of human being. And then you quote, which is something that I would like to explore if that's okay with you. The way in which one person deals with the situation varies from the way another person deals with the exact same situation. So while we may not always see it, there's often an opportunity for growth and understanding in adverse circumstances. That's such a beautiful code. You want to expand on that a little bit? Sure. Yeah, I mean, doctor gallow is an amazing author, you know, in person. And so my personal connection with him is, I reached out to him a few times, and we consider him sort of a rockstar, he's the fill ivy, let's say, of psychotherapists. And all over the world, people know him. Even in Greece, there's lines to buy his books out the block, right? So
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"I think I'm really not in the neural net deep learning landscape, but I do know that there are online learning algorithms that might be able to make observations and you can partially train a network so that you only need a very small number of observations before you can start learning stuff. I don't know this is possible yet. But in theory, we've qualified this question about 5 times now, but in theory, in this situation that I'm interpreting that Renee's asking about, I think that you could see a neural net, yeah, outperforming an equilibrium calculator just because it's able to handle fuzzy things better. Yeah, that would be my guess. But if they're going head to head, I have no close probably. Yeah, I would agree with that. In a head to head to head battle, one of these two probably is going to win, but if there's actually humans in there, I think the top pro is going to make the most money it's not even close because he knows when to switch between GTO and oh right, that was the top float. There was a top pro there as well. Right. Oh, I forgot. Yeah, I think, yeah, if you're playing with other humans, I think the top row is going to make the most. Unless you significantly improve the algorithms. But if there's just three of them, if there's just the three of them, I think the top row is going to have a real tough time. But maybe not multi way game theory is tough. I'd say the equilibrium calculator is probably not going to do great. I would agree with that. I think the depending also on how much preparation it had beforehand because you can actually put the neural net and trained to start playing their or you can pre train it, which is a completely different story. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, that's a fantastic stuff. So let me ask you this Ben. So if people want to know more, you know, they want to reach out to you, like have a conversation, you know, discuss about where can they find you? Well, I am on Twitter at I don't even know my Twitter handle. Ben kushi at then underscore kushi, and I think yeah, and then I'm in Jason coker greatness in the slack and other discords around. Yeah, yeah, in the village. Yeah, and I'm in Seattle. Just walk around, Seattle, yell my name. I'll come. Beautiful. Yes, absolutely. And you can often see like I mentioned in the intro. You can often see Ben talking about this concept that we discussed today in a lot of detail always great inside and he's planning a lot of time thinking about those things if it's not already clear by the conversation we've been having today. And Peter, I don't know if you wanted to add anything else the conversation. Before we, I don't think I can there. I like the way you guys finish that start at that last question. And more or less came around to the old stock poker answer. Where are the kind of depends? That's exactly right. So it's a bit of where people can find you. People can find me on Twitter, don't add Peter Birmingham. There's a four instead of DM at the end as I think all our listeners know what this stage and you'll also find me knocking around knocking around the slack group chasing pop great and dot com forward slash great in this village and you'll find me there and yeah, I just want to thank Ben for his time today on a really, really interesting conversation and a very interesting topic. Thank you for your time. Thank you both for having me on. It's an honor. And yeah, enjoy your content. So this is great. Oh, thank you. Don't know we had a really good time. And again, if you ever have more thoughts, hopefully when you go back, you mentioned earlier that this is something that you're working on and eventually you want to you want to reveal more information about it when you're ready for all of this. We're here for you, you know, we can talk a little bit more and let's put a temporary pause and then we will reconvene. Can't wait. Excellent. Well, and thank you everybody for listening and tuning in and we will see
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"All people can always find me in the village don't can chase and poker greatness dot com forward slash greatness village and you'll get me on Twitter as well at Peter Birmingham, shamelessly plugged in this podcast every Friday. Absolutely, absolutely. And you know, and also you can find us both on Twitter and we will pause this wonderful video because there's nice facial expressions and I like I highly encourage people to actually go watch the video as well. Our beautiful faces. So on why Alex beats Bobby over at YouTube, but please, please, please comment and send some loves that an incredible story and incredible life lessons from the dog today. Doc, it has been tremendous amount of pleasure having you here. Thank you so, so very much for your insight and wisdom. Thank you for letting me know this is so much fun. I would love to do it again sometime. Thanks guys. Absolutely. Thank you, doctor. We'd love to have you again in the future. Absolutely. And everybody, please keep sending us your questions for the next board. We will provide all of the information in the social platforms. And once again, thank you, everybody. And we'll be in touch next week. See you guys next week. Bye
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"Com forward slash greatness village and you can find it there. We have our own. We have our own tab in the village, philosophical Friday, coming there and at all the questions you want. And remember there are no stupid questions. You can find me on Twitter and Peter Birmingham at Peter Birmingham where the far at the end of it. On Twitter, post questions at me there, tag me, tag me in a question if you will. And then we have token who can be found. Yeah, ask them after on Twitter. And also if you want to instead of listen, you want to watch this podcast, see us get animated and excited about stuff. Why Alex? We do. I use a lot of hand gestures and stuff like that. I definitely have more of a face for radio, but you know, I got animated physically, so there you go. We should, absolutely. So why Alex beats Bobby? We post the video there every Friday. And again, make sure you also vote for the best question because we're going to be declaring a winner every week. And this week, the winner is the spiel. I absolutely love that question from Marie konicov as book. And incidentally, I believe Eric Seidel because he follow up with that, he said that observing any kind of lucky anything will distort one's thinking. And she agrees. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's going to be distorted, but I would say that it matters. Like actions matter. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. And so for the big reveal from our question from the start of the show in case anyone had forgotten, which online poker player and streamer said that when they're on a downswing, they shave all their facial hair because they believe it gives them a fresh start and a chance to get back to win in ways. So that is the great Jeremiah Williams, mister Williams being a very logical and sound player, never gets rattled at the tables. You watch him on stream. There are bad beats all over the place. Never but still believes on a downstream, he must shave his facial hair so well done, Jeremiah, thank you for thank you for providing providing that one to us and shout out good luck with your good look at your challenge. Absolutely and shout out to Jeremiah and I think with that, we believe everybody talked to them to next week, Peter. Thank you for another excellent podcast. Thank you very much, Duncan. And we will see you all next week. Take care.
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Peter Birmingham and yours truly Duncan polo mortis. How are you Peter? I'm very well done very well. Good to see you. Good to see you back home and you're in your natural habitat as it were. For a period of travel? Absolutely, absolutely. I'm excited. And I'm actually really excited too because we have a wonderful topic today. And the entire community is actually involved in it. So things are exciting. We're going to reveal at the end some very interesting questions that people asked some very interesting things they have to say, but before we get into all of this, what is the topic that we're going to talk about today? So the topic for this week Duncan is superstitions and I think it's always a good one where poker players supposedly we don't believe in look and it's all the variants, everything is naturally occurring, but I think deep down every single one of us has some sort of superstition and that we hold on to it. So we're going to dive into that today and we're going to start off to our usual, we're going to start off by defining what we mean when we talk about superstitions and get into some examples. And then later on in the show, we are going to we've got some as you said, we've got some very interesting questions from the village. So we're going to try and answer them. And then we're going to reveal some interesting and wacky superstitions that were fed to us through various channels. And I'm actually going to throw this one out right now. For the audience. So a relatively famous online cash player and has a superstition that when they are on a downswing, they shaved our facial hair in the hope that it improves their look. So,
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"The situation you're doing it in will be appreciated to the point that it has a chance of success, be that in poker, be that in writing, be that. And whatever arena, but to take the poker example, that you're trying to pull off something where your opponent is thinking to a level that they will appreciate what you're trying to do. So that the nuance of it will be is something that they will consider. But if they ain't going to consider the nuance, well, then you're just you're just doing it for the sake of it. So that's the thing. It's doing it with a porpoise to a foreign audience that will that will appreciate the nuances of what you're trying to do. I love it. So maybe again, maybe you do FBS when it's essentially no longer a fancy. I mean, you do something fancy when it's sort of like ceases to be exactly. And at that point, it probably just becomes probably just become standard. It's just, you know, it moves from fancy place in Rome into high level thinking. So this is an example where the noise actually becomes the signal, right? Part of the noise is actually the signal. That's very, very, very well put Peter. So excellent. And so can people to keep it simple, you know, where can people find us, you know, without all the fanciness? Like, what are the easy, easy places that they can find us? Two simple places to find me Duncan and greatness village you can get it through, Jason poker great and stock com forward slash greatness village, pop in there, say hello. I'm always around, or they can find me on Twitter and at Peter Bram with a four at the end, as we pointed out, pointed out last week by miss lick spelling, I slightly over complicated my name for that was an on purpose that wasn't. It wasn't necessary. It wasn't on purpose. But yeah, so I pop in and say hello, I'm there. And one of our children, where can our listeners find you? Sure, they can find me also on Twitter, ask the math DR. I should probably mention about your accidental FPS ing that you actually replace the last M with four. So for anybody who wants to argue, it's at Peter Birmingham instead of M, you have a four. If I remember correctly. It's a very nice accidental FPS thing. I love it. I totally dig it. And the thank you all for liking and subscribing to the YouTube channel that we have basically to YouTube channels, they're chasing poker greatness and why Alex beats Bobby. We upload the videos of philosophical Friday where if you're interested in our facial expressions and our hand gestures and all of that stuff, you can find it in there. Sometimes they tell a lot. I agree with that. I personally like it that way. I think it's more engaging experience. But well, thank you everybody for tuning in. As always, if you have any questions, post them in one of these previously mentioned venues. And Peter, thank you very much again for a beautiful conversation. And thank you very much. Absolutely, and we will see you all next week. Bye bye. Catch y'all next week.
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Peter Birmingham and yours truly Duncan polymorphs. Peter, how are you today? I'm very well done. Thank you very much to allow you to be back into the studio to dive down the rabbit hole and what is what's sure to be another interesting interesting topic for our listener. Absolutely and what is this topic? So today we're gonna talk about something that I think pretty much every poker player definitely suffers from at some point in their life. And it's fancy place syndrome. Very good, isn't it? So just actually just as we start off, just a little lights out on where did in poker terms who force coined the term fancy play syndrome? That's a little bit of trivia. That is an excellent question. I have no idea. I can make a wild guess. Usually with these acronyms, I mean people call it FPS for short from fancy place in the initials. I would guess it started on two plus two. That would be my guess. Like typically speaking, this type of these types of terms, you know, back in the day when people were talking about all those things, you know, a triple merging range and all of this nonsense. Typically starts on two plus two, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was somebody else. Do you happen to know who coined the term? Yes, I do, actually. And it was actually, it actually well predates two plus two. These kinds of terms. It was actually the great Mike Carroll. Oh my God. Poker terms. So there we go, a little bit of useless trivia there for our listener. We're regarded to today's topic. Actually, you know what? I don't think it's useless at all. And here is something that you reminded me of something, very relevant with what you just said. The concept of reframing, right? I mean, the idea of fancy place syndrome in fanciness in general is something which is certainly not new to people. I mean, as we talk about it, people will definitely identify and relate to a lot of things that we're going to talk about. But what's interesting is actually finding the proper words or coining terms can be incredibly helpful. My favorite example is a word like anti fragility, right? Which, again, coined by nassim Nicholas taleb, we've talked about the fragility a lot in this podcast. Now, the concept of anti fragility. Is not to be credited to taleb, of course. I mean, that idea of basically growing through stressors is something that philosophers like Nietzsche have talked about philosophers like the presocratics have talked about. So this is not something new.
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Co host Peter Birmingham and Duncan Apollo mortis. Peter, welcome. How are you today, sir? I'm very well done. Thanks very much. How was your week been since we last spoke? So far so good. I can not complain. There's been a lot of poker as usual, a lot of a lot of math, a lot of studying on my end, so the year starting pretty well so far. How about yours? Yeah, good. Probably pretty similar. A lot of playing cards, a lot of studying and yeah, just had dug into the computer and getting after it. I love to start to the new year. I love it. I love it. And what are we discussing today? So today is that it's probably considering we're talking about how much time we're spending in front of the computer. It's probably quite an apt topic, which is opportunity cost. I think this is, I think this is something that probably everybody's heard of at some point. If you've ever done any sort of business cars or business studies in school, high school, or any level, this is a concept that you would be even vaguely familiar with. Absolutely. And it's an interesting topic because it's a very slippery slope idea. It's very easy for people to confuse what that means or even have a vague and incorrect understanding of what the word means, which is why now more than ever, we should talk about definition, right? So what is opportunity cost? Like in very simple terms in your mind. How would you define opportunity cost? So defining it simply I would consider it when you choose one option over an alternative, the cost of the option you've chosen is that alternative. That's right. So in basic terms, if you have a choice to buy a newspaper or a magazine and you choose to buy the newspaper, the opportunity cost is the magazine. You don't get that. That's exactly right. And at a very basic level, that's pretty much what it is. That's very important. And immediately, we see that there is different ways we can define it because, for example, in this case, you define the cost as the actual physical object paper versus magazine, but also somebody else may say, well, I could actually convert those two objects into monetary value, right? I mean, the cost of the magazine or the cost of the paper. So now we're actually measuring a different thing. So defining a specific metric at the beginning, like how when a measure things do when I measure happiness, do when I measure monetary value, I do want to measure size, perhaps because again, paper and magazine have a different size. So the opportunity cost is the difference of what you actually would have gotten versus what you got. So to give you an idea, if you have, let's say, to make it even simpler in terms of monetary terms that people may be more familiar with, if you, let's say, are freelancer and you got a job and that job will give you just to keep it very simple. Let's say $1, but versus another job you could have done, which would again you $2 so the opportunity cost there is that difference two minus one equals one. So you sort of like lost that extra dollar you could have gotten by getting the $2 work, right? Or if you could get a different job for $5, then the opportunity cost is now $4 because you got it one instead of 5 that you could have gotten, right? So that's a way we can define and use in some sort of like a differential between the two. But of course, this is philosophical Friday.
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Peter Birmingham and yours truly Duncan Paula mortis, happy new year, Peter happy new year, everybody. How are you today? Thank you, dawn. Yeah, I'm good on that. Thank you very much, welcome to the listener and again for me as well. A happy new year. Starting off 2023, we're just going to get. We're going to get straight into it. With today's topic, which has been an interesting one and suggested to us by some of our OG greatness village members, how we in Jenkins, they all had a hand in this one. And it's a kind of a sensitive topic in a way, and it's one that's particularly should be particularly of interest to poker players and that is the topic of gambling. And specifically, yeah, I think specifically where force suggests that it was going from that he made the decision he had been looking at symptoms of gambling. Addiction and particular for the American listeners. Yeah, something had something I prompted him to look at that. And he thought there might be some correlation between sort of high performers and actual people in a sort of a problem of gobbling area that there was bound to be some crossover there. This will be an interesting topic to sort of for us to get into. So thanks very much for the suggestion and we'll get into it. Absolutely. And we'll do our best to talk about this topic. A couple of things that I want to say right off the bat because again, the topic of gambling addiction is a sensitive one. We want to remind all of our listeners that we're not doctors of medicine. If anything, the other type of doctors and we just express opinions and this is for entertainment purposes only. And of course, if you have any sort of trouble, you need to seek a medical medical professional advice.
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Jude is Tuesday, so it is a tactical day, I'm joined by my co host John. What's up, sir? How's it going? It's going well. As I was doing the intro, I can't say as always anymore because philosophical Friday has been running without me, so I saw that I saw that Peter Birmingham. Yeah. Pete and Duncan have been holding the fort down through the holiday season. So yeah, not as always, you know, maybe there's a time when people listen to the CPG podcast and reminisce, yeah. I remember, I remember when it was as always. I used to know who is the host of that. It's like when around the horn switch hosts from Max Kellerman to Tony reality. I know the show, I didn't know that I didn't even know that Kellerman was the old host. He was a host for like years. For years and then he went old way and everybody, everybody forgot about him. Being the host of around the horn. So yeah. One could only hope that that's the path that there's such a capable human being that takes over that people just, they're like, oh, I forgot about Brad. Happy new year, by the way, everybody. Happy new year, everybody. John John still smarting over his missed opportunity to say see you next year. Last week. Yeah. This is the saddest moment of technical Tuesday. I think ever. Breaking that gift, he lobbed him off a grapefruit, and he just totally whiffed and it splattered all over the ground. So anyways, deuces in the cutoff decent clothes. 5 handed. What is the theme? Do we have a theme before we? It's another loose themed episode, but really the main part of the meat of this episode I think is going to be like trying to get into my opponent's heads and trying to understand what they were thinking or kind of maybe what they should have been thinking. And these spots, I think this firsthand, especially, is at least to me was really, really interesting. And I think I still can't tell whether it's an absolute punt or just a genius boy. Okay. All right, so let's diagnose. See if we have a punter, genius, or some kind of Frankenstein hybrid mix of the two. So you open 25 with deuces from the cutoff, the small blind, three bet you, to one 20, small blind appears to be reg. Yep, appears to be a rag. We're about a 130 big blinds effective to start the hand. I don't know. I mean, not too much to do here, except appeal to deuces. I guess there's some ranges that probably advocate for folding like the bottom pocket pairs like these is in threes, but not my charts. Not in John land. So you do call the deuces facing the three bet, there's two 50 in the pot.
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"peter birmingham" Discussed on Chasing Poker Greatness
"Another episode of philosophical Friday. I'm joined by Peter Birmingham. This is Duncan palomo des in we're going to have another discussion in the middle of holidays, happy holidays to everybody. Peter, how are you? I'm very good. Thank you very much. And hello to our listener. Yeah. Really good, excited to delve into our what's likely to be a pretty topical subject this week, something that I think is probably on a lot of people's minds. That's right. And what is that? So we're going to support the idea of gold zone. So coming up to new year, everybody's making resolutions, plans, plans, going forward, have their 2023 is how they wanted to look. And we're going to delve into some of the some of the topics around Nevada that want our goals, why are they important? And how to achieve them and where the pitfalls are. Absolutely. Absolutely. And before we started the podcast today, you were telling me that you were doing some research. I mean, if you obviously done your own reading, you mentioned atomic habits, tell us a little bit about that. Tell us a little bit about your own research, the things that you find important and we can start setting up the stage. Yeah, as I said, when we were off there, I think the most recent book I had read to do with change in habits and generally improve and making goals was atomic habits by James clear. I think it's, I think it's a book that, even if people haven't read, they are probably heard of because it's been a huge, it's all well over a million companies. So I definitely have a little bit back into that. It had been a while since I read it, so I just want to recap on some of the some of the topics that he has called. And he approaches that goals and getting better. Absolutely. And for the listener who may not have read the book, if you were to summarize its idea, like in a couple of sentences, what would you say or like its main ideas in a couple of sentences? What would you say those are? I think the main idea is to keep your goals achieved. Across the focus on the small gains. And not to overstretch. Don't aim to buy always always make them always make them achievable. Like that, as I said, go for it, go on for small games. Make sure it's interacting. Now watch your story in part. It's going to hold your interest because if it's if you're chasing some of the you have not all of our passion part, it's going to burn out pretty quick. You're not going to, you're not going to stay on track. So that's going to be the essence of where you're coming from. You have actually four specific calls within the book. And that's going to allow you to make an attractive make it easy. A very quick summation of Aquarius on the ground. Absolutely. And we need to keep track of that, right? I mean, keep your goals achievable. So that you protect yourself against failure. Do not underestimate the cumulative effect, right? Even very small difference per day can accumulate accumulate over time. And make it so that whatever it is that you do, it can be sustainable, right? I remember, and I've mentioned that before in the podcast, I remember a friend of mine asked me for advice. Duncan, you know, how can I want to get in shape? How many days a week would you recommend me going to the gym? 5 days a week, 6 days a week and my answer was, you know, I mean, obviously as many as you can, but that wasn't my answer because that's not very helpful to say to somebody as many as we can. My answer was go one a week. Just if you can go once a week for like 20 minutes, but every week it has to be every week. That's a very good way to start. And from there you can adjust. But once a week, not 5 times a week, not every day, not just start with once a week. And same applies to Pokémon. Yeah, and I do think that's a mistake that people make. The especially with things like weight loss and so they go too hard too fast on the inevitably borne out very quickly. And one of the things that James clear is a proponent of this, when you're setting your goals, not only set a target but set an open limit. That's right. So let's say for the Pope, let's say for the poker player, let's say that your goal for the first three months of the year are to play at least 15,000 online house. It's an idea to have that you will not play more than 20. So you could go out to four months, because obviously in 2025, our target. But then it comes to February and you're just forgot because you pushed it up too high. Right, is that an open target? And I think that's a really good idea. Because the tools keep, it keeps you away from the forward and sort of do the need tracks over exposure to whatever you're doing. Absolutely. And that is actually tying to a concept that hopefully we're going to talk a little bit about the idea of there is a difference between the goal itself, which in this case is how many hands and the vision and the vision is to become, which is a greater kind of thing. You become a better poker player. So what James is trying to do there with his advice. He's basically saying, listen, it may be better to be very specific to protect your vision by not overdoing a certain goal, right? So what he's trying to say there is like, okay, if you burn yourself out, you may miss the forest for the trees. So for that reason, it's okay to restrain yourself a little bit. Don't go overboard so that you can get the bigger, the bigger bounty, which is, of course, to be a better, a better poker player. So goals can be positive, can be negative, can be all sorts of things, but they typically look at a higher price at the high reward, if you will. And that high reward is typical some sort of a vision, which we can which you can get to it. Excellent example, Peter, that was an excellent example with poker hands in particular. And so to set up the stage, let's start, let's start simple, right? And so we can go backwards now. That was sort of like a preview. What are goals? And why our goals important in your mind? So I think goals are goals are targets are progress, thought we separate ourselves. So to give something to people to work towards, so that we're moving forward with a purpose rather than just moving forward. Aim is. And I think they are on the forms for our focus and opens the focus and individual in sort of the corporate world focusing in getting them to having
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"Of philosophical Friday. This is your hosts Duncan parliament's in Peter Birmingham. Once again, you're here with us Peter. Welcome, welcome. Welcome, Brad would say. Thank you very much. Delighted to be back in and have a chance to discuss it. Discuss another interesting topic hopefully and we can delve into delve into our chosen subject for this week. Excellent excellent excellent. And again, I mean, Brad has been very busy lately. So we're doing this for the first year for the foreseeable future, excuse me. If I understand this correctly, and so what's today at on the agenda, Peter, what are we going to talk about today? So today we are going to discuss based off a website called long best dot org and this is a pretty old play and we're going to you can kind of readily tell that this was I think you mentioned it was from the originally from the early 2000s. Right. And this is where people come together and they make
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"Up, everybody? This is Duncan polymorph in I'm joined today by Peter Birmingham, and we have another episode of philosophical Friday. As you can tell, the setup today is a little bit different. Brad Wilson is not with us because he is busy with some very important parent duties and as Christmas and holidays are on the way. So we're trying to fill in for him and Peter. Welcome in really happy to have you here join us to the podcast and to talk some pretty interesting things. How are you today? Very good. Great to be here. Thanks very much for that introduction. And yeah, as Tom said, I'm feeling proud today. He's busy and for anyone obviously nobody's gonna know me or at least most people won't. And I have been a student of Brad and a member of great village for the past two and a half years. And yeah, that's awesome. Delve into today's topic. Today's topic and what is today's topic. I'm going to ask the question that Brad always asked me, what is the day's topic? So today, today's topic is artificial intelligence. And we're going to see how that relates to relates to poker and some of the concerns and some of the developments and