Maria Konnikova

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

— Maria Konnikova

If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when…

— Maria Konnikova

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there…

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

I hate casinos. I have zero interest in gambling.

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

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

— Maria Konnikova

Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.

— Maria Konnikova

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling…

— Maria Konnikova

“That, in a nutshell, is the scientific method: understand and frame the problem; observe; hypothesize (or imagine); test and deduce; and repeat.…

— Maria Konnikova

I really had to go back and remind myself that trusting makes society function on an individual level related to health and…

— Maria Konnikova

At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's…

— Maria Konnikova

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely…

— Maria Konnikova

The perfectibility of the human mind is a theme that has captured our imagination for centuries - the notion that, with the…

— Maria Konnikova

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving...…

— Maria Konnikova

Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association,…

— Maria Konnikova

Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.

— Maria Konnikova