Personal development

Hey Everyone,

Anne Wojcicki is the Co-Founder and CEO for 23andMe. Her company helps users learn about their ancestry, genealogy, and inherited traits via at-home genetics test kits and genetic mapping research. In 2007, 23andMe became the first company to offer autosomal DNA testing for ancestry, becoming a pioneer in the field, and developing technology that has lead the way for every other at-home genetic testing service to come after it. The saliva-based, direct-to-consumer genetic testing business was named “Invention of the Year” by Time magazine in 2008. Anne discusses the impact her family had on her vision to build 23andMe; challenges she faced building the company; why we should all take ownership of our health; how 23andMe can help researchers find medical cures, and more!

Anne Wojcicki’s talk covers the following topics:

• Her relationship with Google (Anne’s story about Google burritos, Eric Schmidt, Steve Jobs, and the first iphone)
• Anne’s approach to Healthcare
• Beginning Stages of 23andMe and genetics
• The struggle with the FDA and the drive to persevere
• 23andMe’a current offerings and the potential expansion of offerings
• Investment and the reality of the Drug Industry
• Using data to increase development of 23andMe
• Connecting people to resources for their health
• How health is the sum of your actions everyday
• Empowering people of their privacy and the freedom to compare
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
• Virtual Healthcare
• Publication of genetic association of 23andMe discoveries
• And much more!

 

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“Don’t get so down on yourself for your bad outcomes and don’t pat yourself on the back so hard for the good ones.” – Annie duke

Hey Everyone,

Annie Duke, World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions winner, joined us to talk about talk about her latest book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts.  We all know about her fantastic poker career, but few us (myself included) knew about her equally impressive academic background.  Annie double-majored in English and psychology, then went on to pursue a doctorate in cognitive linguistics. Annie talks about the latest research in decision making and how she applied this research in poker and in business. Make sure to take notes for this one because it’s jammed packed with great information.

About the book: “Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion turned business consultant, draws on examples from business, sports, politics, and (of course) poker to share tools anyone can use to embrace uncertainty and make better decisions. For most people, it’s difficult to say “I’m not sure” in a world that values and, even, rewards the appearance of certainty. But professional poker players are comfortable with the fact that great decisions don’t always lead to great outcomes and bad decisions don’t always lead to bad outcomes.

By shifting your thinking from a need for certainty to a goal of accurately assessing what you know and what you don’t, you’ll be less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in your decision making. You’ll become more confident, calm, compassionate and successful in the long run.”

• How poker is a natural laboratory to study decision-making
• Two factors that can affect a good decision making
• The importance of motivated reasoning
• Why decisions should be treated as bets
• What is resulting and how is it hurting  your decision making
• Two things that determine how our lives turn out
• Hidden information in luck
• The importance of Ulysses pacts
• And much more!

 

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Hey Everyone,

Recently I hosted author and blogger Eric Barker, who has been featured in Time Magazine, New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, to talk about his latest book Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong.

His talk covers the following topics:

• Filtered un filtered leaders
• Finding your own pond
• Understanding the power of WOOP (Not whoop there it is)
• Why if you’re a drug dealer, you should have a big network to stay out of jail
• Why we choose confidence over expertise and how lower confidence helps us learn
• The emperor of Mexico, who lived in San Francisco
• What are intensifiers, and how can they benefit us
• What we can learn from Glen Gould
• How to become a super connector
• How is success influenced by timing and context
• What four metrics should you monitor to keep your life on track
• Great tips on mentoring and networking
• And much more

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