Note: This episode is a part of our Timeless Knowledge series. It originally aired in December 2018.

Author, educator, entrepreneur, and hedge fund advisor, Adam Robinson shares powerful lessons on winning the game of life. He teaches us how to learn, how to fail, and his three secrets of happiness and success.

Adam is a rated chess master with a Life Title and was actually personally mentored by Bobby Fischer. He was an undergrad at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and later earned a law degree at Oxford University.



00:00 What is The Great Game?
08:18 Why are we all so negative?
17:40 What is the key to happiness?
20:29 How to make changes
23:39 What questions should we be asking?
26:21 How to accomplish your goals
31:53 How to learn to think better
36:49 Why we love surprises
40:55 Robinson’s investment philosophy
58:58 On investment trends
01:22:06 How Robinson broke the SATs
01:34:45 Predictors of success on the Stuyvesant test





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