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Biggest Bluff : How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova (2020, Hardcover)

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With 368 pages of riveting content, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their skills and master the art of self-mastery.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10052552262X

ISBN-139780525522621

eBay Product ID (ePID)23038430394

Product Key Features

Book TitleBiggest Bluff : How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2020

TopicWomen, Card Games / Poker, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Curiosities & Wonders, Personal Growth / Success

GenreReference, Self-Help, Games & Activities, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, Psychology

AuthorMaria Konnikova

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-002627

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"I love it. Not only did The Biggest Bluff lead me into a complex and charismatic new world; it made me think about my own life and my own self-deceptions about control--and taught me to pay more attention to my own opponents, mine being of the tennis sort. The narrative is deftly crafted, and the journey--the self-examination, the oddball characters, the awful misogyny, the Aggros, the notion of tilt--accumulates in a seamless and satisfying way. I read this in what for me was record time." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile "The narrative is so gripping that you might get halfway through The Biggest Bluff before you even notice that you're getting a master class in learning, focus, and decision making. I tore through it in two sittings, and haven't stopped thinking about it since." --David Epstein, author of Range "I absolutely love this book. The story is fantastically gripping, and offers lessons about decision making, luck, risk--and most important, how to play at life like a cool-headed pro. This is one of my favorite books of the year." --Charles Duhigg, author of bestsellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

Dewey Decimal795.412019

SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller! A New York Times Notable Book "The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself." -- The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way., The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable Book "The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself." -- The Washington Post It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a Ph.D. in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player. She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way.

LC Classification NumberGV1250.2.K66A3 2020