Why Playing the Odds Beats Beating the Odds (with Kyle Austin Young)

Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Hi, I'm Kyle Austin Young, and I'm about to have a productive conversation with Mike Vardy.

Kyle, thanks so much for taking the time to join me today for a productive conversation. Glad to be here. Thank you for having me. So I'm looking at the book right now and uh let me just uh pop back. It's called Success is a Numbers game.

Achieve bigger goals by changing the odds. And what I wanted to talk about right away was this idea of you talk about probability, like really early on. Actually, one of the things that came up. uh as a Canadian and as a hockey fan was the initial story about the and this actually as we're recording this I think the documentary just showed up on Netflix about the Miracle on Ice the the new documentary and so you talk about you know um as soon as I as soon as that that pulled me in so Every Canadian is susceptible to hockey, I think, to some degree, way, shape, or form.

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