{"id":3443,"date":"2018-06-27T18:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2018-06-27T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:21:12","slug":"mollys-game-constant-reinvention-and-perseverance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2018\/06\/27\/mollys-game-constant-reinvention-and-perseverance","title":{"rendered":"Molly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Game: constant reinvention and perseverance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4209788\/\">Molly&#8217;s Game<\/a> on a flight. It was so good I ended up getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/006283858X\/?tag=colincharles-20\">audiobook<\/a>, to see if I missed out on anything. Molly Bloom (her <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Molly_Bloom_(author)\">Wikipedia page<\/a> is a great read) is an entrepreneur. She trained to ski (and had a tough father, and siblings who skied better than her), but due to injury decided it was time to go find herself. From a terrible job as an assistant, she quickly began running poker games for her boss. When her boss decided to cut her off, she became independent and anticipated player&#8217;s needs and became an even greater success. Her games even brought in Hollywood celebrities.<\/p>\n<p>When she exited the LA market, she did games in New York. So no stranger to starting from scratch, in an industry that she was already well-versed in. Eventually the law caught up with her, and she had to give up her high life. But with grit, the rebirth seems to have been writing her story, which became a movie that Aaron Sorkin directed.<\/p>\n<p>Constant reinvention and perseverance. Those are my takeaways from both the book and the movie. I recommend watching the movie, then deciding if you are still interested before getting to the book\/audiobook.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Molly%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s%20Game%3A%20constant%20reinvention%20and%20perseverance&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2018%2F06%2F27%2Fmollys-game-constant-reinvention-and-perseverance&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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It was so good I ended up getting the audiobook, to see if I missed out on anything. Molly Bloom (her Wikipedia page is a great read) is an entrepreneur. She trained to ski (and had a tough father, and siblings who skied better than her), but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Molly%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s%20Game%3A%20constant%20reinvention%20and%20perseverance&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2018%2F06%2F27%2Fmollys-game-constant-reinvention-and-perseverance&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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