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Aug 2024
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#761: General Stanley McChrystal and Liv...

Tim Ferriss: Bestselling Author, Human Guinea Pig
About this episode

This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade. I could not be more excited.

The episode features segments from episode #86 "General Stan McChrystal on Eating One Meal Per Day, Special Ops, and Mental Toughness" and #611 "Liv Boeree, Poker and Life — Core Strategies, Turning $500 into $1.7M, Cage Dancing, Game Theory, and Metaphysical Curiosities"

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Timestamps:

[00:00] Start

[05:57] Notes about this supercombo format.

[07:01] Enter General Stanley McChrystal.

[07:24] One meal a day.

[08:52] Daily exercise routines and their importance.

[14:04] The book most gifted.

[15:15] A major course correction at West Point.

[19:33] Vetting, selecting, and educating candidates for combat.

[21:41] "No-win" leadership roleplaying.

[25:21] Underrated military leaders.

[27:17] Audiobooks.

[29:13] What books make Stan's reading list?

[30:29] Hopeless dilemmas and managing self-talk in high-pressure environments.

[37:09] Enter Liv Boeree.

[37:35] Youthful obsessions.

[42:04] How poker entered the picture.

[49:45] The qualities that made Liv excel at poker from the start.

[55:55] Liv's advice to a newcomer wanting to learn poker.

[1:04:54] What Liv's eight-week poker education curriculum might look like.

[1:11:31] Failure points that might discourage someone during this curriculum.

[1:13:35] Red mist, white noise, and fast math.

[1:19:37] Volcano-induced tournament participation and self-regulation.

[1:28:27] A skeptic's experiences with the unexplainable.

[1:44:19] How does Liv rationally coexist with these experiences?

[1:48:09] How to become a better skeptic.

[1:54:18] Inadequate Equilibria and Moloch.

[1:59:14] Parting thoughts.

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