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

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The Biggest Bluff

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