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Maria Konnikova

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first: 2020-08-04
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“It really was. And we didn't know what was happening. And in the end, it ended up kind of resolving eventually. And they just called it idiopathic, which really means that we don't know the cause. And around the same time that this was happening, my grandmother died. And she had been healthy living by herself. Everything was fine and she just slipped in the night when she was getting up, I'm guessing, to go to the bathroom or to take some pills, whatever it was, and hid her head and never really woke up. And that was really difficult because we hadn't really prepared for it. You know, she was perfectly healthy, perfectly self-dependent, you know, the day that she was taken to the hospital, she had bread kind of starter in the kitchen because she was baking bread. She'd baked her own bread her whole life long before baking bread was a fad. So she”
2020-08-04 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So to speak. I had a number of health issues and to this day we actually have no idea what it was. It was just some autoimmune thing where my immune system just went haywire and I became allergic to everything and my hormone levels were completely out of whack. And I went to all of these specialists. They put me on just horse doses of steroids like I was falling asleep. I couldn't function. And I could there were times when I couldn't go outside because my entire body was just covered in hives and I basically couldn't wear any clothes that touched my body in any way. I couldn't wear jeans. It was awful. And we didn't.”
2020-08-04 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I first met the person who would end up becoming my coach and my mentor for many years and is one of the central characters of the Biggest Bluff, Eric Seidel, I shocked him by not knowing how many cards were in a deck. I said, well, you know, I know there are 54 cards in a deck, and he just kind of gave me this look. I was like, wait, what did I say? And he's still, to this day, he still jokes with me that when the two jokers finally pop out of the deck in a poker game, that's when I'm going to win the World Series. And when the major title, because there will finally be 54 cards in the deck. So that's a long preface to say, you know, this was definitely not a natural transition in any way, shape, or form. I went through a period in my life a few years back that wasn't the rosiest.”
2020-08-04 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Isn't that the question that absolutely everyone, including my family, is asking? It was a series of just chance events. And the funny thing is that the book is at its core about chance. And when I look back at my life, a lot of the things that look so premeditated and look like I really planned it out were just really a lot of different circumstances coming together at just the right moment in my life to push me in a certain direction. So with poker, I have never been a games player. You know, there are people who love playing board games growing up who play cards in their household, not my household, not me, my parents never did that. We read books. They read books to me. So this was never something that was an interest for me. And I actually had never played poker in my life. I didn't know the rules. I didn't know anything.”
2020-08-04 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the most important things that the reflection process can teach you is to force you to actually in perspective and to imagine that the situation is like a puzzle and there are all these different puzzle pieces and you can get so wrapped up in figuring out where does this specific piece fit that you forget what you know the full puzzle looks like and it can help you solve it much faster”
2020-08-04 · The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish · #89 Maria Konnikova: Less Certainty, More Inquiry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT