Podcast Episodes featuring Chris Sparks

#265 Chris Sparks - Poker is a Sandbox for Understanding Human Behavior

What Got You There with Sean DeLaney - October 03, 2021 04:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 161 ratings
Chris Sparks is a professional poker player and peak performance expert who coaches executives on high performance and decision making. Chris is exceptional at teaching people how to think like a poker player which is applicable to everyone no matter what domain you’re performing in. This is a f...

Poker and Productivity with Chris Sparks

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg - March 24, 2021 23:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 110 ratings
What can people learn from playing poker? What makes someone good at playing games? What is the OODA loop? What is a "premortem" analysis of decision-making? How should we think about decisions that aren't easily (or even possibly) reversible? What do people get wrong when they're trying to be ...

#262 - Chris Sparks - How To Properly Do An End Of Year Review

Modern Wisdom - December 26, 2020 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Chris Sparks is a Productivity Coach and a Former Top 20 Online Poker Player. Many people use the end of the year as a breakpoint to check in with how life is going and plan what they want to achieve in the following 12 months. Today Chris gives us the exact process he takes his high performance ...

#239 Chris Sparks - How to Manage Risk with One of the Top Poker Players in the World

The Pomp Podcast - March 12, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 976 ratings
Chris Sparks is one of the top online poker players in the world and the Founder of The Forcing Function, a company which is empowering the next generation of entrepreneurship by transforming the way we think about work. In this conversation, Anthony and Chris discuss game theory, decision making...

#099 - Chris Sparks - Productivity Without Limits

Modern Wisdom - September 02, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Chris Sparks is a productivity coach, founder of The Forcing Function and a Former Top 20 Worldwide Online Poker Player. What happens when a world famous productivity coach compiles the most effective tasks he's discovered for developing personal productivity into an E-Book? Well today we're goin...

Chris Sparks Bonus - The Forcing Function Workbook

Portfolio Career Podcast - May 08, 2019 20:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Resources: Chris's company website - The Forcing Function Chris's social media - @SparksRemarks

The Small Changes that Make All the Difference l Chris Sparks l Episode #606

Peak Performers | Tools, Strategies & Psychology to Get Things Done - January 28, 2019 06:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 121 ratings
A longtime student of human behavior and decision making, Chris Sparks started his career in the world of brand advertising. After realizing that neither agencies or corporations were the right, he decided to go full time at poker, primarily online. In the world of high stakes gambling, he built...

#164: "Free Range Kylo Ren" ft. Chris Sparks

Rogue Squadron Podcast - October 15, 2018 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 99 ratings
Sparks joins us today and we're going to see how his inner process analytical works.   This week's topics: More thoughts on Jon Favreau's The Mandalorian Venom Comic goodness Why tattoos are awful Solo thoughts and review Mediocre beer      Thanks to our patronizers! If you...

PP 448: Chris Sparks, Founder of The Forcing Function

Positive Productivity - August 13, 2018 10:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
“It’s understanding what works well for ourselves. There’s no universal best practice. It’s all personal best practices.” Former top 20 online poker player in the world, Chris Sparks, now an equally skilled productivity coach and Founder of Forcing Function is able to utilize traits learned fr...

#20 - Interview with Chris Sparks, models for behavioral change

Cut Your Learning Curve - July 26, 2018 07:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
In this episode I talk to business coach Chris Sparks about productivity and habit forming. Chris has a number of useful models for thinking about how to structure your time and work through problems especially when you get stuck. http://natecooper.co/free https://www.facebook.com/groups/reb...

Chris Sparks - A Guide To Productivity

ManTalks Podcast - February 12, 2018 11:01 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 402 ratings
Chris is a business coach for top performing entrepreneurs, helping them build the systems and habits to maximize their time, energy, and focus towards building their business and designing their personal lives. He regularly writes about personal effectiveness and transformation on his blog and l...

33: Top Twenty Poker Professional to High-End Productivity Coach with Chris Sparks

Nat Chat - November 24, 2017 13:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 21 ratings
Find one thing that if you did it every day, would ensure that you move forward, and then make sure that it happens every day. In this episode of Nat Chat, I’m joined by Chris Sparks. Chris shares his story with getting heavily involved in poker while still in college. Chris had planned to get...

78: "Space Billiards" ft. Chris Sparks - The Star Wars Tattoo Artist joins us to chat about Rebels & The Force Awakens

Rogue Squadron Podcast - October 03, 2016 14:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 99 ratings
Chris Sparks has been a long-time follower of the podcast, and we’ve been trying to make this “interview” happen for quite awhile! As you’ll hear, it’s less of an interview and more of an awesome conversation with a fellow fanboy. Sparks is one of few tattoo artists actually licensed by Lu...