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🗓️ 4 August 2020
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Professional poker player, psychologist and author of two New York Times best-sellers, Maria Konnikova discusses her mentors, making decisions in environments of uncertainty, the importance of reflection, cooling down your emotions and Sherlock Holmes.
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0:00.0 | One of the most important things that the reflection process can teach you is to force you to actually |
0:07.1 | In perspective and to imagine that the situation is like a puzzle and there are all these different puzzle pieces |
0:13.8 | And you can get so wrapped up and figuring out where does this specific piece fit that you forget what you know the full puzzle looks like and it can help you |
0:23.1 | Solve it much faster |
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1:06.2 | FS.blog slash podcast or check out the show notes for a link. Today I'm talking with Maria Connecova. Maria's a writer, psychologist and professional |
1:15.5 | poker player. Her newest book The Biggest Bluff tells the incredible story of how she |
1:19.6 | Commits one of the best poker players in the world, Eric Sidel, to teach her how to play. This episode is an exploration of learning something new, |
1:27.4 | making decisions and environments of uncertainty. How you learn to cool down your emotions when they get out of control? What we can learn from Sherlock Holmes and so much more. |
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