Naucz się myśleć jak pokerzysta i podejmować lepsze decyzje, aby wygrywać w życiowych zawodach! Maria Konnikova, psycholożka i badaczka ludzkich zachowań, zwróciła się do mistrza pokera Erika Seidela, aby stał się jej mentorem. Jej celem nie było zarabianie na grze, lecz zrozumienie życia poprzez karty. Po osobistych niepowodzeniach i refleksjach na temat szczęścia, przypadku i pecha, odkryła, że poker jest doskonałą grą do nauki rozróżniania rzeczy, które możemy kontrolować. Seidel wprowadził ją w świat wysokich stawek, a ona zaczęła odnosić sukcesy, wygrywając turnieje i zarabiając tysiące dolarów. Nauczyła się nie tylko rozumieć przeciwników, ale także siebie, podejmować decyzje pod presją i oddzielać emocje od wyborów. Odkryła, jak najlepiej rozgrywać kiepskie karty oraz prawdziwe znaczenie szczęścia. To fascynująca lektura dla każdego, kto pragnie wpływać na swoje życie. Konnikova, autorka bestsellerów i dziennikarka, pokazuje, jak kontrolować życie, myśleć obiektywnie i podejmować lepsze decyzje. Książka to inspirująca podróż od zera do bohatera, która wywoła uśmiech w trudnych czasach.
How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
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A 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.
How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game
Es passiert nur den anderen, den Leichtgläubigen und den Gierigen, aber niemals uns: Onlinediebstahl, Anlagebetrug, Abzockerei. Doch die wahren Betrugskünstler finden bei jedem die Schwachstelle. Ob Schneeballsysteme oder Kunstfälschung, unechte Diplome, Sekten oder Investitionslügen: Immer geht es um Vertrauen, um die Kunst, andere etwas glauben zu lassen, um die richtige Story. Das wussten Gert Postel, Bernie Madoff und schon der „Great Impostor“ Waldo Demara in den 50er Jahren. Kann man sich überhaupt wappnen? Maria Konnikova verschafft verblüffende Einsichten, erklärt Strategien und Psychologie dieser Art von Verbrechen – und zeigt, wie man weniger leicht zu kriegen ist.
The con artist: from Bernie Madoff to Clark Rockefeller to Lance Armstrong. How do they get away with it? And what keeps us falling for them, over and over again? In The Confidence Game, Maria Konnikova investigates the psychological principles that underlie each stage of the swindle, from the put-up all the way to the fix, and how we can train ourselves to spot a story that isn't all it seems.
No fictional character is more renowned for his extraordinary powers of mind than Sherlock Holmes. But what exactly is it that sets him apart as a detective of the highest order, and can we harness his genius? In Mastermind, psychologist Maria Konnikova shows us how we can all channel Holmes's famous powers of deduction, observation, memory and imagination. Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that can help sharpen our perceptions, improve our logic and enhance our creative powers. Mastermind is a remarkable and entertaining guide to upgrading the mind.
Co odlišuje Sherlocka Holmese od jeho přítele Dr. Watsona? Co dělá z Holmese tak skvělého detektiva schopného poskládat jednotlivé kousky problému do uceleného obrazu, ačkoli Watsonovi to nedává smysl? A můžeme i my použít Holmesovy metody a zlepšit své myšlení – ani ne k řešení kriminálních případů, ale k vylepšení svého osobního i pracovního života? V této knize naleznete ukázky některých Holmesových případů a díky nim pak odkryjete strategie vedoucí k hlubšímu chápání a bystřejšímu myšlení.
