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We had Howard Lederer come to Harvard and talk. We're sponsoring Annie Duke at UCLA on Friday, I guess that's tomorrow. She's talking about gender roles and psychology.
We had Mike Sexton in to talk, and Jim McManus, an author, all talking about the ways in which poker communicates skill that have allowed them to succeed in a poker table, but also communicate skills that allow you to succeed in the larger world. We've also convened conferences, we had an academic conference last year and we're going to do another one in the Spring, probably here at Stanford. And the idea being that let's call some academic attention to these games. And the fourth thing we're doing is just providing students a place to have some fun, play in amateur poker exhibitions, playing games where schools take on schools. Harvard played Yale last week, UCLA is playing USC tomorrow. Next year we'll have Stanford playing Cal in their version of the big game. And the idea being that these games are fun and is a great opportunity for people to explore the types of strategic thought that are in poker, while being able to have some fun and engage in a game that can really engage students in learning and continuing to develop types of thinking. So, that's basically what the GPSTS has done so far and kind of where we're moving going forward. >> NESSON: But let me focus on the thinking part this website. In my class to my students, I don't start with poker. I start with the idea of what truth is in a rhetorical environment, how two-sided it is, how there's always two-sides to a story, and how important it is in trying to persuade someone else that you're capable of seeing their story from their point of view and articulating that to them so that they understand that you understand their problem. It's only at that point that they start listening to you. Before that they're just tuning you out. And I use poker as a way of focusing this thought of seeing from another's point of view. But first I start with a riddle that I would love to give to you and see how you do with it. So, here's the riddle; once upon a time, a queen lived in a kingdom that she ruled with an iron hand. You are supposed to laugh when the queen lives in the kingdom. She had a son that she wanted to marry the most intelligent, perceptive, woman in the kingdom. So, she gathered all the eligible women together and gave them the Law School Aptitude Test. >> WOODS: [INDISTINCT] lawyers. >> NESSON: And three of them scored perfectly. So, she had to choose from amongst these three. She brought them to the palace and sat them around a round table and gave them the following instructions, "I'm about to blindfold you. Once you're blind folded, I'm going to put a hat on your head, a small little hat, so that you won't be able to see the hat on your own head, but when you open your eyes with the blindfolds off, you will see the hats on the heads of the other two. Now here's what you must do, when the blindfold is taken off, I'm telling you in advance, I am going to place on your hat--your head either a red hat or a white hat. When your blindfold is taken off, if you see one or two red hats, you're to raise your hand." All right, now do we understand the set-up? The blindfold is going to come off, I'm not going to be able to know what colors the head--on my hat, it's either red or white. If I see one red hat, I raise my hand or if I see two red hats I raise my hand. And the queen says, "The first of you that can tell me the color of the hat on your head, take your hand down and stand up and marry my son, explain why." She then put red hats on each of the three. And then took off the blindfolds and immediately, of course, seeing two red hats each. Each of them raised their hand. And they sat at the table looking at each other for five seconds, ten seconds, fifteen seconds, and then one young woman took down her hand, stood up and said. "I have a red hat on my head," and she explained why. How did she know? Put your hands up when you get the riddle, I just want to just see how fast it happens here. So, let me say about poker, as you're letting this noodle in your heads, the point in poker where you become a poker player is the point at which you look up from you own hand. When people start learning poker, their first pre-occupation is their own cards. Is it--if I got a straight or a flush, or does two pair beat up one pair, what is the--all these things. They look--they're like this. The point at which you start to play poker is the point at which you are more interested in what is happening around you. You've got time, wait, you can look at your hand just about anytime. That point where you start to look and see what's happening in the environment and as the game unfolds, you start to see how the others at the table are seeing you, that's when the poker game really starts. So, how many hands up with the red hats? Who's going to explain it to us? Stand up over here, loud and clear.
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