by Brandon Adams | Aug 23, 2019 | Book Excerpts
#Game No : 502135221 ***** WSOP.com Hand History for Game 502135221 ***** / Blinds No Limit Holdem - *** Table Unknown 0 Max (Real Money) Seat 7 is the button Total number of players : 7 Seat 1: Hercule ( $25,000 ) Seat 2: THEFLASH123 ( $45,928 ) Seat 3: SCHAUFELREIN...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 20, 2017 | Book Excerpts
In dealing with tilt, in poker or in life, an option is: Do nothing. So much of success is just failing slower than other people. There’s no better way to fail quickly than to tilt, and so, when you’re tilting, you should try your best to quit all...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 19, 2017 | Book Excerpts
Attention span management in today’s world probably means: having your attention span decline slower than everyone else. Everyone is becoming somewhat manic and unfocused. We can debate why this is true, but a reasonable hypothesis is that one’s ability to focus is...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 17, 2017 | Book Excerpts
Money and time are closely related—you can usually spend money to save time. I believe that such trades should generally be made wherever possible. The way I suggest handling this is to have a subjective value for your time that reasonably reflects your life...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 15, 2017 | Book Excerpts
Your philosophy of personal organization is really your all-encompassing strategy for how to approach life. Michael Porter has said that “the essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you’re trying to accomplish.” My personal philosophy on organization...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 13, 2017 | Book Excerpts
Developing a career strategy in a world defined by technology and global competition is an extreme challenge. Today’s “knowledge workers” now have to ask the question: Am I providing incremental value over Google? Rapid technological advancement is...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 10, 2017 | Book Excerpts
It’s important not to spend too much time communicating, or following social norms, unless you have a great need for these things. I spent most of my twenties in an environment that could be characterized as the epicenter of networking, Harvard Business School. I was...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 9, 2017 | Book Excerpts
The expansion of your domain is inherently more stimulating than the contraction of it. The problem is that your high-energy, high-capability self (the version of you that is most prone to the execution of activities) is often incompatible with your low-energy,...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 8, 2017 | Book Excerpts
At a poker table once, someone I respect said, “Everyone I know who’s ever bet on props has gone broke at some point.” I puzzled over this, because a prop bet, in poker terminology, is a bet on something where the odds are fair, such that there is no...
by Brandon Adams | Jul 5, 2017 | Book Excerpts
An error asymmetry can result when you take on (or don’t take on) additional complexity. If you choose not to take on additional complexity, you will tend to: a) do a better job on your existing projects and commitments, and b) have time and energy free if...
