Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Maria Konnikova Talk Poker, Psychology, and Focusing on What You Can Control
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🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with writer, psychologist, and poker champion Maria Konnikova about how she uses Stoicism to win big at Texas hold’em, and how you can use knowledge of human psychology to make better choices, whether it’s in Las Vegas or elsewhere.
Maria Konnikova is an award-winning author who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Wired, and many other outlets. Konnikova has also made a career as a poker player, winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in tournaments around the world, drawing upon her knowledge as a Columbia University-trained Ph.D. psychologist.
Get Maria Konnikova’s latest book, The Biggest Bluff: https://geni.us/XhsrPV
New York Times review: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/23/books/review/maria-konnikova-the-biggest-bluff.html
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| 0:22.2 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com. |
| 0:34.2 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Seruti and we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:43.2 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
| 0:49.2 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like. |
| 0:57.2 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction. |
| 1:07.2 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behaviour. |
| 1:12.2 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
| 1:18.2 | Listen to Redhanded wherever you get your podcast, so access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music, or by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app. |
| 1:30.2 | Hey, I'm Cassie Depegel, the host of Wondries Against the Odds. |
| 1:34.2 | In our next season, Amelia Earhart wants to make history by flying across the Atlantic alone, but brutal weather and malfunctioning equipment could leave her lost its sea. |
| 1:44.2 | Listen to Against the Odds on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:48.2 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. Must have been four years ago now, maybe more. I was in New York. I was supposed to talking at a conference put on by Adobe. |
| 2:01.2 | The series is called 99 U. And I was giving a talk on how stoicism applies to creativity or so stoicism for creatives. |
| 2:10.2 | So that's like designers and artists and freelancers and writers and stuff like that. I think the talk is online somewhere if you if you Google it. |
| 2:17.2 | But I've also written a bunch of articles for 99 U over the years. |
| 2:21.2 | Anyways, often when you do these talks, there's sort of a private dinner afterwards with interesting people who are talking it's sort of one of the perks is you get to go meet all the speakers. |
| 2:31.2 | It's usually before the conference or after so everyone's calm and cool and you know not trying to focus on the work thing. |
| 2:38.2 | It's just that I've met some people who the relationships have totally changed my life. So this one was awesome. |
| 2:45.2 | AJ Jacobs was there who I've gotten to know over the years. |
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