Liv Boeree, Poker and Life — Core Strategies, Turning $500 into $1.7M, Cage Dancing, Game Theory, and Metaphysical Curiosities | Brought to you by Wealthfront automated investing (http://wealthfront.com/tim), Athletic Greens all-in-one nutritional supplement (http://athleticgreens.com/tim), and Eight Sleep’s Pod Pro Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating (http://eightsleep.com/Tim). Liv Boeree (https://www.youtube.com/user/livboeree) is one of the UK’s most successful poker players, winning both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles during her professional career. Before poker she studied astrophysics and now focuses her time as a TV host and YouTuber specializing in game theory, futurism, and rationality. She also gives seminars on high-stakes decision-making, and recently spoke at the annual TED conference about the application of poker thinking to everyday life. In 2014, she co-founded Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a nonprofit based upon the philosophies of effective altruism that raised over $12,000,000 for its carefully selected list of maximally cost-effective charities. Please enjoy! Subscribe to Liv's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/livboeree Show notes: https://tim.blog/2022/07/28/liv-boeree/ 00:00 Start 00:02:10 Youthful obsessions. 00:06:42 How poker entered the picture. 00:14:42 The qualities that made Liv excel at poker from the start. 00:22:37 Liv’s advice to a newcomer wanting to learn poker. 00:29:52 What Liv’s eight-week poker education curriculum might look like. 00:36:28 Failure points that might discourage someone during this curriculum. 00:38:32 Red mist, white noise, and fast math. 00:44:43 Volcano-induced tournament participation and self-regulation. 00:53:46 A skeptic’s experiences with the unexplainable. 01:10:36 How does Liv rationally coexist with these experiences? 01:14:29 How to become a better skeptic. 01:20:35 Inadequate Equilibria and Moloch. 01:25:26 Parting thoughts. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/1dSzTkW About Tim Ferriss: Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 700 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running. Connect with Tim Ferriss: Sign up for "5-Bullet Friday" (Tim's free weekly email newsletter): https://go.tim.blog/5-bullet-friday-yt/ Visit the Tim Ferriss PODCAST: https://tim.blog/podcast/ Visit the Tim Ferriss BLOG: https://tim.blog/ Follow Tim Ferriss on TWITTER: https://twitter.com/tferriss/ Follow Tim Ferriss on INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/timferriss/ Like Tim Ferriss on FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/TimFerriss/