Leadership Quote by 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 you're faced…

— 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 are things…

— 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 a full…

— 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 because men…

— Maria Konnikova

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

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

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

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

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, and subconscious…

— Maria Konnikova