All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries - the notion that, with the… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Once the notion of time travel starts to come naturally to the human mind, it is supremely easy to assimilate it into… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“How did the System Holmes machine become . . . a System Watson? Simple. Holmes says it himself: he had lost interest… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Understanding the psychology of changing norms starts from a simple insight: although we may wish to be perfectly rational and impartial, bias… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“Whatever the situation, answering the question of what, specifically, you want to accomplish will put you well on your way to knowing… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Researchers have always tried to use psychology for predictive ends: Can what we already know about a person tell us how she… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Before I found out what poker really was I had this picture in my mind of men smoking cigars and having all… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The more fluent the experience of reading a quote - or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I'm capable of just putting my butt in a chair and spending nine hours a day studying poker. I took it as a full… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
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… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
To a child, 'The Little Prince' is the story of a boy who falls from the sky, meets lots of funny people on his… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
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… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Fraternities breed leaders. That, at least, is what most any chapter website will tell you, in not so many words - and the message… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
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… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
“a failure to use all senses equals a scene not seen to its full potential, attention that has not been allocated properly, and subconscious… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
