Light helps the body predict the future: it’s a sign of how our environment will change in the coming hours and days, and our bodies prepare themselves accordingly. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Some of the elements of sleep hygiene are basically the same as good health practices. Nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol all negatively impact sleep, the more so the closer they’re consumed to bedtime. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Part of how easily we go to sleep is genetic: many sleep disturbances, ranging from insomnia to circadian disruption, have a large genetic component. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
A wide array of factors can determine just how quickly you’ll be able to drift off to sleep when you choose to do so. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
We don’t remember everything that happens to us on a given day: sometimes, we remember something simply because it’s emotional, while, at other times, we work our way through mundane details to figure out why something matters. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have skill versus chance and to see how that played out. I would dive in head first into the poker world. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
I’ve figured out how to turn what’s different about me and limitations – I’m new to this world, I’m a woman, I don’t have a math background – and how I use that to my advantage. They’re what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you’ll be fine, but you’ll never be great. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
I find the game fascinating and poker has unlocked parts of me emotionally. I’m enjoying the process but there are moments when I’m really down. It’s a ton of travel, it’s exhausting, physically and emotionally. It’s lonely. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Erik Seidel ended up introducing me to some of the best players in the world, a few of whom also agreed to take me on to coach me. So I had access to the best poker minds in the world to help me study and figure things out. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
Before I found out what poker really was I had this picture in my mind of men smoking cigars and having all these chips and like going all macho and crazy. I don’t think there’s been that much done in the mainstream community to change that perspective. Maria Konnikova Read Quote
