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849 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 24 Feb freebie \ on: How to be more agentic BooksAndArticles
What are reads in this context? Soul reads? Reading hands? Reading people?
Picking up a new sport is a good example of this.
I still remember the old man that watched a friend and me (we were both new to bouldering back then) failing at the start of a route over and over again. While we were taking a break, we watched him do the route and he just did it so effortlessly on his first attempt.
We then were very interested and asked him how he did it. He mentioned that we have to "use our hips" and proceeded to show us.
I kept failing until he showed us again very slowly how to do it (it must have been exhausting for him to do it this slow) and then I got it.
When I was able to move my hip in the way to get out of the starting position, I instantly was unable to do it the wrong way anymore. It felt so obvious now.
We were both so thankful and I will never forget this moment. My hip movements belong to him now.
Recently, I picked up Taekwondo and it's the same feeling of learning "obvious things" all over again and moving past them and it's addicting.
What are reads in this context? Soul reads? Reading hands? Reading people?
Reading people's body language is what she intended, I think -- basically, stuff that has nothing to do w/ the actual mechanics of poker, but intuition of how people act. At least, this is how I took it, since it would confirm the idea of outsized advantages from going 'out of band' to find important influences on stuff.
We then were very interested and asked him how he did it. He mentioned that we have to "use our hips" and proceeded to show us.
Good example of the power of just asking people for help; and also: of finding people who know stuff you don't know, and want to know, and observing them. Both super under-rated. I feel like almost any normal person can probably 10x their progress wrt something important by doing this.
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Reading people's body language is what she intended, I think
I thought so too but then this surprised me:
But when we’d tell other pros what we were doing, the response from most was “nuh-uh, that’s not a thing.” They weren’t willing to consider the possibility that reads were valuable, maybe because they didn’t want to feel obligated to study them.
I thought being able to read people is an obvious important skill in poker. I mean the term "poker face" is literally about not letting other people read you, no?
Good example of the power of just asking people for help; and also: of finding people who know stuff you don't know, and want to know, and observing them. Both super under-rated. I feel like almost any normal person can probably 10x their progress wrt something important by doing this.
Yeah, that's what I love about bouldering.1
Just observing people is so much fun and helpful. Also, sometimes, it feels like an unwritten rule that if someone is trying really hard but keeps doing the same mistake, that someone more skilled comes out of nowhere and flashes the route2 while they are taking a break.
It's also a matter of staying humble since you don't want to do this in a way to discourage them like "look how easy it is for me". You just want to help them.3