Business Tricks We've Learned From Gamblers, Pickup Artists, & Feynman

All right, we're live. Sean, I've got a story for you and this story I'm gonna take a weird take on this. I have a weird take on this, and I'm gonna appeal to all the young single men. out there. I feel like I can rule the world, I know I could be what I want to Alright, listen, the story's about Ed Thor.

Have you ever heard that name, Ed Thorpe? Sounds like a swimmer, no. It does sound a swimmer, but He's not. So Ed Thorpe, I'm reading his biography called Man for All Markets. So Ed Thorpe, today he's ninety-one. So what does that mean? He's born in the nineteen forties, nineteen thirties.

Ed Thorpe, he grew up as a math wiz kid. He was like a a a prodigy at a young age. Grew up in a very poor household, didn't have a lot of money. But as a young kid, when he was like twelve and thirteen years old, he got moved up a bunch of grades and he took uh a bunch of standardized tests. And at the time when he lived in California, he got something like the highest scores in California. for high schoolers when he was like thirteen years old. And at the time they didn't have calculators, but they had like little counting devices. And he would take these tests without these counting devices because he couldn't afford'em. And he still crushed it.

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