How to Pull Alpha Out of Your Brain You Didn’t Even Know Was There

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You know that feeling when someone asks you the perfect question and it pulls alpha out of your brain you didn’t even know was there?

Jason Roberts has that question. He uses it on me constantly because it pays off big and often.

Here’s the 3-step alpha extractor:

1. Take a problem and phrase it as a dare. “Bet you can’t do this.”

2. Raise the stakes to infinity. You get a trillion dollars if you win. You die if you lose.

3. Then pop the question:

“The approach we’re taking right now – is that the strategy you’d use?

Or is there anything else you’d do to increase your chance of winning?

Because if so, we need to go do that instead.”

(discussed ~56:57)

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