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13. Yul Kwon: “Don't Try to Change Yourself All at Once.” (UPDATE)
People I (Mostly) Admire · Mar 21, 2026 · 43 min
He has been a lawyer, an instructor at the F.B.I. Academy, the owner of a frozen-yogurt chain, and a winner of the TV show Survivor. Today, Kwon works at Google, but things haven’t always come easily for him. Steve Levitt talks to Kwon about his debilitating childhood anxieties, his compulsion to choose the hardest path in life, and how Kwon used game theory to stage a victory on Survivor. This…