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Daniel Negreanu

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

I just never did.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Otherwise, I would have a lot more of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

But it's always been strange to me how people that have that kind of money like โ€“

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Or cheap in any way, you know, like they wouldn't donate 5,000 to a worthwhile charity because it's like, buddy, this, like when it changes your life, not even like, like small things like taxes, like, okay, you have $20 billion and you're worried about paying 33%, 30% to 31%.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

I get it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

I get the point of it all, but it literally has no effect on your life whatsoever.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Your life is unchanged, whether it's 31 or 33.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

It was all you and you're a genius and you're so great.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And all these other people who don't have, it's just because they don't have what you have.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And like, you just, then you start to like view that group of people, whether they're impoverished or whatever is like less than, and that you're some like great guru where you could have just got lucky and bought Bitcoins that, you know, could have done anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And then you became like super wealthy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And then you have this like Dunning-Kruger effect,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

where you think you know everything about everything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And a lot of poker people have that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

And I, listen, I'm probably guilty in some ways too, you know, thinking because you can figure out poker and be, you know, great at that, that you could figure out anything.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So there's like, it's true, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

I mean, we sort of, we genuinely feel like people that reach the highest levels of poker feel like they are intelligent.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

So they will look at problem solving and think that they have answers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Yeah, I don't think there's anything wrong with like acknowledging that you worked hard to get where you were.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#324 โ€“ Daniel Negreanu: Poker

Like there isn't.