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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
4.0 AVERAGE
365 reviews for:
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
4.0 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
I was told this would be interesting even if you don't like Poker but it wasn't. The book is very surface level observations. What people are wearing, what they're eating, what the weather is, what they do. It lacks the substantial insights inside of why they're doing things. That mixed with a lot of boring poker talk and a lot of very self absorbed rambling just kills my interest.
Poker is gambling by the way. It doesn't matter if there's still involved, it still uses the Element of chance as a major factor. It's not a slot machine but slot machines aren't the only form of gambling!!
Poker is gambling by the way. It doesn't matter if there's still involved, it still uses the Element of chance as a major factor. It's not a slot machine but slot machines aren't the only form of gambling!!
A truly enjoyable book about one person's quest to rise from 0 to hero in a new field. The interleaving of the subject's experience with principles of Psychology, given her Ph.D. in the field, makes this a highly educational book without the dryness that often accompanies such non-fiction psych books. That said, I personally have little interest in poker, and found many of the details about the game and play-by-play commentary of specific hands and tournament results dry and boring.
Reading this book I came away with the feeling that learning rules to master a specific field/domain does matter, as does the seeking out of coaches and mentors to support the journey, but intuition plays a big part as well. How much of intuition is due to learning a domain vs just tapping into some sort of deeper invisible force? That's an open question.
Reading this book I came away with the feeling that learning rules to master a specific field/domain does matter, as does the seeking out of coaches and mentors to support the journey, but intuition plays a big part as well. How much of intuition is due to learning a domain vs just tapping into some sort of deeper invisible force? That's an open question.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Super interesting premise but I didn't feel like enough time was spent on any of the major components of the story (i.e. psychology of gaming, gender roles in professional sport, applying poker skills to regular life, etc.).
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Enjoyed the story, and some of the reflections. Maybe a reflection of the audiobook or my attention span, but I wish there’d been a recap at the end of top lessons.
A dense read (I had to slow down to really take it all in), but a fantastic one. Konnikova does a great job breaking down the different elements of poker and takes you along for her journey in exploring and applying the balance between pure probabilistic thinking and human inconsistencies/quirks. Definitely made me reflect upon how these can be applied in the world when facing asymmetries of information and interacting with others.