371: Maria Konnikova | Pulling Off the Biggest Bluff
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Maria Konnikova (@mkonnikova) is a regular contributing writer for The New Yorker, a bestselling author, and an international poker champion -- a title she earned while researching her latest book, The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win.
What We Discuss with Maria Konnikova:- How Maria went from being someone who had no interest in poker to raking in big bucks as an international poker champion.
- How people make decisions and what poker can tell us about reading human motivation.
- How to spot real physical tells at the poker table (and real life).
- How we can control and prevent emotional thinking (aka "going on tilt").
- Why, in poker as in life, triumph is your foe, and disaster is where you learn.
- And much more...
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