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Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Luck, Fortune, And Chance. About Tina Seelig's TED Talk. Are there things we can do to increase our luck? Through taking tiny risks, showing gratitude,. Chance plays a far bigger role in life than we're willing to admit, says psychologist Barry Schwartz. Of course, working hard and following the rules can get you far - but the rest could boil down to simple good fortune. Schwartz examines the overlooked link between luck, merit and success, offering an intriguing solution to equalize opportunity - starting with college admissions.

In poker, as in real-life, we have to make decisions in the face of hidden information. It's a remarkably difficult problem, which artificial intelligence has long struggled with.

It's been observed more than a few times that poker and life have a lot in common. As Team Pro Liv Boeree explains in her latest TED talk, you can draw some important life lessons from the game when it comes to making decisions.

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'Like poker, life is also a game of skill and luck,' Boeree says at the start of the talk. 'And when it comes to the biggest things we care about -- health, wealth, and relationships -- these outcomes don't only depend on the quality of our decision making, but also on the roll of life's dice.'

How, then, can we evaluate the quality of our life strategies? How do we learn to quantify the difference between being lucky and being good? And how can we tell when we should study a problem carefully and when we can just go with our gut?

There's an 85 percent chance that all the answers are right here in this five-minute talk:

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