Football Quotes by Maria Konnikova

9 Football quotes by Maria Konnikova

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When you seek a mind‑science angle, Maria Konnikova's nine brief football comments explore the mental side of competition.

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Poker is all about comfort with uncertainty, after all.

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To the untrained eye, poker seems deceptively easy.

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I've been studying, playing, living, breathing poker for eight to nine hours a day. Every day! When I'm between events and in…

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I've figured out how to turn what's different about me and limitations - I'm new to this world, I'm a woman, I…

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I find the game fascinating and poker has unlocked parts of me emotionally. I'm enjoying the process but there are moments when…

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Before I found out what poker really was I had this picture in my mind of men smoking cigars and having all…

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I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have…

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I'm capable of just putting my butt in a chair and spending nine hours a day studying poker. I took it as…

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Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the…

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Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist.

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One of the things that women really excel at is reading and reacting to subtle cues. We've always had to do that because men…

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To a child, 'The Little Prince' is the story of a boy who falls from the sky, meets lots of funny people on his…

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It's strange, when you think about it, that we spend close to a third of our lives asleep. Why do we do it? While…

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Fraternities breed leaders. That, at least, is what most any chapter website will tell you, in not so many words - and the message…

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Las vegas shouldn't exist. The incongruity hits you from the moment you first glimpse it from the airplane. First mountains, then desert, then neat…

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I hate casinos. I have zero interest in gambling.

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“a failure to use all senses equals a scene not seen to its full potential, attention that has not been allocated properly, and subconscious…

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It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender…

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“We are terrible at seeking evidence that challenges our own beliefs, but other people do us this favor, just as we are good at…

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All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are…

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