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Using Math to Find Love on OkCupid with Chris Mcinklay

EPISODE · Apr 30, 2014 · 59 MIN

Using Math to Find Love on OkCupid with Chris Mcinklay

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Chris Mckinlay’s disparate career path has led to working as a Chinese- English translator, playing team blackjack, and eventually a math PHD program at UCLA. The perfect real world scenario to test the the knowledge gained from his math PHD was OkCupid. And using math to hack OkCupid eventually led to meeting the love of his life. A look at an unconventional college experience in ChinaWhy intentional discomfort is instrumental to growth How to deal with the feeling that you don’t fit in The realities of survival in other parts of the worldLearning to reorient your life in order to find meaningLife as a professional blackjack playerUsing a painful experience as a powerful opportunity for growthLearning to see connections and patterns in your work The myths that technology will drastically improve your lifeBalancing the qualitative and quantitative elements of dating Hilarious online dating anecdotes and things to avoid How Chris’ appearance on Wired led to other opportunitiesResources MentionedHow a Math Genius Hacked OkCupid to Find Love Chris Mcinklay has a PhD in Mathematics from UCLA.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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