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Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs: A Successful Business with Poker Strategies
Tough Decisions for Entrepreneurs: A Successful Business with Poker Strategies

Chris Sparks joins Dan Hadford to dive deep into Black Swan events, high-risk/high-reward decisions, and the best resources to optimize for performance.

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Chris SparksJuly 4, 2019
Portfolio Career Podcast: Enabling Productivity—Experiment Without Limits Preview
Portfolio Career Podcast: Enabling Productivity—Experiment Without Limits Preview

Chris Sparks joins David Nebinski in a two-part interview to discuss enabling productivity inflection points and to preview Chris’s workbook, Experiment Without Limits.


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Chris SparksMay 8, 2019
Peak Performers: The Small Changes That Make All the Difference
Peak Performers: The Small Changes That Make All the Difference

Thor Conklin and Chris Sparks discuss why it is essential to sit at the right table, exponential vs. incremental mindsets, and how to play the infinite game.

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Chris SparksJanuary 28, 2019
Natural Born Coaches: Multiply Productivity, Maximize Effectiveness
Natural Born Coaches: Multiply Productivity, Maximize Effectiveness

Chris Sparks joins Marc Mawinney to discuss intuition as internalized experience, delivering referable results as a substitute for marketing skill, and retaining more of what you read.


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Chris SparksDecember 17, 2018
Create Your Own Life: A Master Poker Player’s Secret to Discovering Your Blind Spots
Create Your Own Life: A Master Poker Player’s Secret to Discovering Your Blind Spots

Chris Sparks joins Jeremy Slate to discuss leveraging inflection points, decision algorithms, and identifying habits and mental models of top performers.

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Chris SparksNovember 5, 2018
Positive Productivity: Chris Sparks, founder of The Forcing Function
Positive Productivity: Chris Sparks, founder of The Forcing Function

Chris Sparks joins Kim Sutton to discuss decision-making, downstream effects on process changes, and utilizing daily themes to minimize context switching.

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Chris SparksAugust 13, 2018
Cut Your Learning Curve: Models For Behavioral Change
Cut Your Learning Curve: Models For Behavioral Change

Chris Sparks joins Nate Cooper to discuss the importance of a clear learning goal, building keystone habits for productivity, and how to extract peak performance lessons from other fields.

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Chris SparksJune 26, 2018
The Tyler Wagner Show: Productivity Multiplier for Entrepreneurs
The Tyler Wagner Show: Productivity Multiplier for Entrepreneurs

Chris Sparks joins Tyler Wagner in a ten minute rapid fire Q&A to discuss diminishing returns, avoiding burnout, and how we can become more effective humans.

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Chris SparksMay 25, 2018
ManTalks: A Guide To Productivity
ManTalks: A Guide To Productivity

Chris Sparks joins Connor Beaton to distill matching skills with opportunities, increasing implementation speed, becoming objective, and balancing happiness and fulfillment.

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Chris SparksFebruary 12, 2018
Today's Business Leaders: Manufacturing Urgency & How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur
Today's Business Leaders: Manufacturing Urgency & How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur

Chris Sparks joins Gabe Arnold to discuss always being at the right table, making rapid-fire decisions using expected value, and tightening your feedback loops.

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Chris SparksJanuary 18, 2018
Nat Chat: Top 20 Poker Player to High-End Productivity Coach
Nat Chat: Top 20 Poker Player to High-End Productivity Coach

Chris Sparks joins Nat Eliason to dive into his background story. They discuss a forcible removal from the UK, the poker boom, nomadism, and how to keep life interesting.

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Chris SparksNovember 24, 2017
Blind Entrepreneurship: Maximizing Time, Energy, & Focus
Blind Entrepreneurship: Maximizing Time, Energy, & Focus

Chris Sparks joins Johnathan Grzybowski to dive into building productive routines, positive optionality, and defining success on your own terms. 

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Chris SparksJune 26, 2017
Intuitive Leadership Mastery: Achieving Your Goals in Less Time
Intuitive Leadership Mastery: Achieving Your Goals in Less Time

 Chris Sparks joins Michael Light to discuss overcoming our evolutionary defects to break through plateaus and using game theory to decide like a pro.

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Chris SparksApril 19, 2017
The Business Method: Poker Champion & Productivity Expert
The Business Method: Poker Champion & Productivity Expert

Chris Sparks joins Chris Reynolds to discuss poker and coaching strategies, comparing mental models for personal growth, and recent advancements in neuroscience.

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Chris SparksFebruary 22, 2017
The Poker Life: GoMukYaSelf
The Poker Life: GoMukYaSelf

Chris Sparks joins Joe Ingram to dive into the world of online poker, the ups and downs of a nomadic life, and embracing clean breaks and new beginnings.

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Chris SparksSeptember 16, 2014
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