Recently I have been spending more time reading and studying strategies and learning techniques from disciplines other than poker. In doing this I hoped to make myself a more effective learner and strategist in general which hopefully will benefit me at the tables. Decided to start a thread here to share some of the ideas I have found useful so others can benefit as well. Hope to use this as a bit of a sounding board and would encourage others to post any thoughts or book recommendations as well.

So to start this off I have recently started reading Poor Charlie’s Almanack which is written about the investor Charlie Munger who along with the more widely known Warren Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway. One of the core messages of the book is that you need to have a good knowledge of the main ideas in a variety of disciplines in order to be a more effective problem solver. One idea is that of inversion originally taken from Mathematics where in order to solve a problem you try to look at it from the opposite perspective.

Sounds great you say but how can this help you?

Well the way I started applying this was when reviewing my sessions or when watching videos I spend time focusing on the villains play in any hand rather than our own.
Ask yourself questions like:
What does villain think our range looks like in this spot?
How are they trying to adjust to our play?

Another way I have tried this is by thinking through hands in reverse so looking at the river play and the working backwards. Give it a try you might be surprised what you pick up by thinking about a problem from a different angle.