How To Be Lucky In Life with Maria Konnikova

Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore

Susie Moore

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Life Coach, Motivational, Education, Personal Development, Life Coaching, Self-help, Mental Health

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🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Confidence is the single differentiator between people who get what they want and people who don't. In her recent book, my friend and NYT Bestselling author of The Biggest Bluff, Maria Konnikova, shows you what it really means when it comes to being lucky. Maria became an international poker champion in just a year, and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings. She's a Russian-American writer with a Ph.D. in Psychology from Columbia University. She's also a contributor for the New Y...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore. Maria Conakova is the author of New York Times Best Selling Book The Biggest Bluff,
0:15.8	How I Learn to Pay Attention, Master Myself and Win.
0:20.0	Maria is a regular contributing writer for the New Yorker who's writing has won numerous awards
0:25.7	and she graduated from Harvard University and received her PhD in psychology from Columbia University. While researching the biggest bluff, Maria became an international
0:36.4	poker champion in just one year and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings and inadvertently turned into a professional poker player
0:47.5	under the tutelage of Eric Seidle, master player who resides in the poker hall of fame. You are going to love this conversation.
0:55.6	Maria Conakova. I have to start by telling you the truth from my heart which is I love you.
1:05.0	Susie I love you too.
1:08.0	This is our friendships is made with love up front.
1:12.0	Maria this book could you see?
1:15.0	Oh, that warms my heart.
1:17.0	I do the exact same thing.
1:19.0	I was actually even a little worried
1:21.0	preparing for this interview
1:22.0	because I'm like, well, is she going to give me four hours or what because I have
1:28.0	I have a lot of questions but we're gonna we're gonna dive straight in and I mean there's so much I want to to ask you because this book
1:37.1	Maria has you it's about poker right like it's about the biggest bluff it's about you spending a year
1:43.6	dedicating yourself to poker to win a championship or attend a championship and you
1:48.8	achieved it like you I mean and this is a very male feel. This is a male field, not many women. It's very complicated, a lot of rules. But you did this because you wanted to truly understand the distinction between what's luck, what skill, what we have control over, what we don't.
2:05.3	Could you tell us a bit about what motivated this for anyone who hasn't yet read the book?
2:09.3	Yeah, absolutely. So for people who've heard me talk about this in the past, you know that I'm not a poker player.
2:18.0	And I did not grow up playing poker, playing games, playing card games at all. One of those people who actually dressed. playing scariest thing they can do is take out a big board game and put it on the table and I'm like,
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