195: The Psychology of Making Financial Decisions with Maria Konnikova
Retire With Purpose - The Retirement Podcast
Casey Weade
4.7 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Maria Konnikova has spent much of her life writing about psychology and how it applies to real life situations. With a B.A. in psychology and creative writing from Harvard and a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University, her work has been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, and the Paris Review, to name just a few.
Her books include Mastermind, The Confidence Game, and The Biggest Bluff, where she tells the story of her journey into the world of professional poker with Hall of Famer Erik Seidel as her mentor. Her career has zigged and zagged in fascinating directions, but she remains astoundingly calm, cool, and controlled about all of it.
Today. Maria joins the podcast to talk about how she takes control of life (financial and otherwise), even as you take it one day at a time, the many different ways emotions affect our thought processes and decision making skills, and the mental habits common to the best poker players that can make you more effective in every aspect of your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Retire with Purpose podcast, a show specifically designed to help free retirees and retirees maximize their financial confidence. |
| 0:14.4 | Casey Wheat is a certified financial planner and president of Howard Bailey Financial. |
| 0:18.3 | His newest book, Job Optional, is a Wall Street Journal bestseller |
| 0:22.1 | and is available now on Amazon and at Retirewithpurpose.com. He's your host on Retire with Purpose. |
| 0:29.0 | Hey, I'm Casey, and I believe in retirement strategies that are driven by meaning and purpose. |
| 0:36.0 | Join me this week and every week as we discuss thoughts and ideas |
| 0:40.3 | with some of today's foremost experts in the field of finance and retirement, as well as discussing |
| 0:46.2 | trending topics that could impact your bottom line. These discussions can help you make |
| 0:51.7 | better financial decisions so you can live the lifestyle |
| 0:55.0 | you've always imagined and deserved. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:02.6 | Maria Konnikova has spent much of her life writing about psychology and how it applies to real |
| 1:09.2 | life situations, just like the ones you're going through right now. |
| 1:12.7 | She has a BA in psychology and creative writing from Harvard, a PhD in psychology from Columbia University. |
| 1:20.1 | Her work has been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Slate, The Parish Review, just to name a few. |
| 1:25.4 | Her books include Mastermind, The Confidence Game, and The Biggest Bluff, where she tells the story of her journey into the world of professional poker with Hall of Famer Eric Seidel as her mentor. |
| 1:40.3 | Her career has zigged, it's zagged in fascinating directions, but she has remained astoundingly |
| 1:46.7 | calm and cool and controlled about all of it. |
| 1:49.7 | How did she do it? |
| 1:50.8 | Well, today, Maria joins the podcast to talk about how she takes control of life, financial, |
| 1:57.0 | and otherwise. |
| 1:58.4 | Even as you take it one day at a time, the many different ways |
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