Maria Konnikova is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist and psychologist who in 2018 while researching her newest book, The Biggest Bluff, became an international poker champion and the winner of over $300,000 in tournament earnings, inadvertently turning herself into a professional poker player. 

In this podcast:

• The role that luck plays in our lives
• What Maria has learned about life from playing poker
• Why we shouldn’t take life for granted
• Where she gets her inspiration to write from
• How COVID-19 is revealing our true colours
• The power of language and communication in business
• How chance affected her life
• The value of human connections

Links:

• The Biggest Bluff

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