Liv Boeree: 3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion
ليف بويري: ثلاثة دروس من بطلة بوكر حول إتخاذ القرار
Liv Boeree investigates how we make better decisions in an uncertain world. Full bio
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three things that the game has taught me
تعلّمتها من خلال اللعبة
that I find apply to everyday life.
يتوافق مع حياتنا اليوميّة.
is about luck.
a game of skill and luck,
وحظٍّ كذلك،
to the biggest things we care about --
أهمية بالنسبة إلينا ...
on the quality of our decision-making,
بنوعية اتخاذنا للقرار،
perfectly health-conscious
with something like cancer.
and live to a ripe old age,
ونعيش حتى نشيخ.
can make it hard for us to know
يمكن أن يصعّب علينا معرفة
experiencing a lot of success.
known as the European Poker Tour.
تعرف بجولة البوكر الأوروبية.
full-time for about a year,
لمدة عام تقريباً فقط،
I must be rather brilliant.
بارعة نوعاً ما.
with studying the game,
في دراستي للّعبة،
the biggest tournaments I could
from a thing of beauty
من شيء جميل
downhill trend for a long time,
وبعيد المدى،
that I was overestimating my skill level,
في تقدير مستوى مهارتي،
of what we've been seeing
at least in 2017,
في عام 2017 كأقلّ تقدير،
faster than the markets themselves
أسرع من الأسواق نفسها
investment specialists"
to have a strategic edge,
الحصول على ميزة استراتيجية،
it's very easy to feel like a genius
أن تشعر بالعبقريّة
that's going up so fast
are making a profit.
to really ask ourselves
the luck factor when we're winning.
عندما نفوز.
of quantifying my thinking.
you can't just get away with going,
a bunch of money,
of probabilities and precision,
to think in numbers.
على التفكير بالأرقام.
really important, like,
what I want to say in my TED Talk,"
في محادثة TED الخاصة بي،"
with the planning process.
في عملية التخطيط.
that could possibly happen here today,
هنا اليوم،
as a probability, too.
in numbers as well.
to come along to that thing tonight?"
القدوم لذلك الشيء الليلة؟"
"Yeah, probably,"
a little odd --
مريباً قليلا ...
على موقع تويتر
the word "probably" to mean,
any real information.
using these vague words,
هذه الكلمات المُبهمة،
because when we speak in numbers,
لأنّه عندما نتحدث بالأرقام،
in the other person's brain.
to touch on today is intuition.
these kinds of inspirational memes
من الميمات المُلهمة
and never second-guess.]
poker players in the world right now.
في العالم حالياً.
purely off feelings and intuitions?
بشكل مُجرّد من الحدس والمشاعر؟
are about slow, careful analysis,
يحللون بشكل بطيء ودقيق،
has outgrown the days
من الشوارع وقراءٌ
and people-reading
aren't nearly as perfect
ليس مثالياً لتلك الدرجة
whenever we're in a tough spot,
متى كنّا في موقف حرج
from some magical source of inspiration.
is extremely vulnerable
thinking and biases.
for everyday things
and lots of experience in,
that our friend is mad at us
into a tight parking spot.
في مكان ضيق لركن السيارات.
بالأشياء الهامةّ حقاً،
than slow, proper analysis?
البطيء واللائق؟
any data to be based off.
أيّ بيانات للاستدلاء بها.
while we shouldn't ignore our intuitions,
بينما لا ينبغي تجاهل حدسنا،
these three lessons today
across a large sample size."
من خلال نماذج كبيرة الحجم."
and so is a cost-benefit analysis.
دراسة العائدات والتكاليف ."
damn well try and estimate it."
بإمكانك محاولة تخمينه."
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Liv Boeree - Science communicator, games specialistLiv Boeree investigates how we make better decisions in an uncertain world.
Why you should listen
Liv Boeree is a science communicator and games specialist. A former professional poker player, she has won multiple championship titles on the international poker circuit and was the #1 ranked female player in 2016. Previously, she studied astrophysics and became fascinated with applying scientific thinking to everyday life. This introduced her to effective altruism: a philosophical movement that uses evidence and reason to identify and mitigate the world's most pressing problems. In 2014, she co-founded Raising for Effective Giving, a non-profit that fundraises for the most globally impactful charities and research organizations.
Liv Boeree | Speaker | TED.com