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Games People Play: Thinking Strategically with Game Theory (Udemy.com)

Use game theory in thinking strategically in any life situation

Created by: Loony Corn

Last updated May 2017

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What you will learn

  • Identify different parts of our brain, and how they correspond to different voices in our head
  • Understand primary motivations, including complex urges such as craving fairness and independence
  • Seek the state of flow, a mental state of intense concentration and joy, brought on by work
  • Classify personalities into 32 categories using the Big Five Personality Traits
  • Understand how memory works, why it is reconstructive and associative

How it compares

Against the other 1,107 rated Udemy courses in Personal Development on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 5% of them
  • Reviews261#594 of 1,108 by number of reviews
  • Length5.6 hourslonger than 79% of them
  • Last updatedMay 2017earlier than 95% of them

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Course Description

This is a practical applied course in game theory, that's about thinking strategically in any life situation, personal or professional.

Let's parse that.

  • Game Theory: Almost every interaction we engage in involves participants with some level of conflict all trying to achieve their own goals. Game theory provides a scientific framework to analyze these situations and identify the best way forward.
  • Thinking Strategically: Game theory requires you to analyze the motivations of every player, their value systems, strengths and weaknesses and how all of these interact with each other.

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Instructor Details

Loony Corn

Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan. Between us, we have studied at Stanford, been admitted to IIM Ahmedabad and have spent years  working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore.

Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft

Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at Stanford; Flipkart, Credit Suisse and INSEAD too

We think we might have hit upon a neat way of teaching complicated tech courses in a funny, practical, engaging way, which is why we are so excited to be here on Udemy!

We hope you will try our offerings, and think you'll like them :-)

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Reviews

4.2

261 ratings on Udemy

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By Tilli Saunders on 3/21/2025

Start of the course was relevant and interesting, however near the end it repeated a lot of the same theories and became a bit repetitive.

By Santhosh Kallayat Vijayan on 9/7/2024

very good clarity in definisions and good examples

By Alfred Dagan on 8/1/2022

The content is pretty informative and interesting. The thing that isn't good about this course is the presentation. I feel like there can be better examples provided in a more concise manner. The most annoying thing is the music in the background. Unfortunately it's going to be stuck in my head for at least a year...

By Hamish on 5/25/2022

This is an interesting course, which became more and more absorbing. It is at a basic level, but will give you the framework to go further into game theory. I recommend it.

By Raghuraman Sundararajan on 1/1/2022

Yes. Cutting complexity into multiple simple pieces and doing it through visual and mathematical models is a great idea.

By Cormac Bolger on 1/11/2021

Interesting introduction to the concepts in Game Theory. Section 6 was quite good because it went through real examples, a lot of the rest was too simplistic which meant it was actually harder to follow because the examples were not set up with preamble, just tables with outcomes. Some of the Nash Equilibrium examples didn't make sense as the best outcome shown was clearly not the best outcome, so was a bit confusing to follow.

By Vincent Ouma on 12/31/2020

The course is very relevant to my hope of learning how to think strategically in any life situation. The instructor is elaborative and clear. I have been blessed with section 2,3, and 4.

By Joseph McDonald on 7/1/2020

This is a good course for learning the fundamentals of Game Theory. The instructors present in clear and concise manner.

By Alden Masonis on 5/13/2020

Yes, I fascinated with strategic interactions and as a result, game theory. I try to immerse myself in it regularly.

By Sreekanth Payyavula on 11/29/2019

I should have taken this course earlier. Extremely good visuals and interesting and useful use cases

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