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Laddar... The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win (urspr publ 2020; utgåvan 2020)av Maria Konnikova (Författare)
VerksinformationThe Biggest Bluff av Maria Konnikova (2020)
   Ingen/inga Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken.   BookyMaven | Dec 6, 2023 |   ) tsbinga | May 30, 2022 | ) tsbinga | Apr 16, 2022 | I am not that interested in poker. I have watched a few hands on TV but it’s not something I would be interested in pursuing. Investing is similar to poker as you are gambling your money based on hunches and little information. I skimmed over sections about poker play and focused more on the author’s observations and conversations with her mentor Erik and other experts. My notes from the book are shown below: Over and over, people would overestimate the degree of control they had over events – – smart people, people who excelled at many things, people who should know better. Here was the cruel truth: we humans to often think ourselves in firm control when we are really playing by the rules of chance. For a large majority of fund managers, the selection of stocks is more like rolling dice than playing poker, says David Kahneman the Nobel winning economist. Not only do funds underperform the market, but the correlation in year to year performance is incredibly low. The successful funds in any given year are mostly lucky; they have a good roll of the dice. Poker isn't just about calibrating the strength of your beliefs. It's also about being comfortable with the fact that there's no such thing as a sure thing – – ever. You will never have all the information you want, and you'll have to act all the same. Leave your certainty at the door. If you're serious about anything – – playing chess, writing a book, becoming an astronaut, playing poker – – you have to learn the composite skills. No one is naturally gifted that they can just get up and go. The true deadly killer is one that hardly anyone would think of: the dragonfly. According to a 2012 study from researchers at Harvard university, the dragonfly manages to capture an astounding 95% of its targeted prey. Car crashes happen most frequently near your home for two reasons: the first is simple base rates – – you drive more frequently in your home area – – but the second is comfort – – if you were going on auto pilot and texting anywhere, it's in the places that you are most familiar. Too much studying without playing makes it hard to fully absorb knowledge, …it will leave me with a head full of statistics and facts Dash – and they mess when it comes time to execute. The Dunning – Kruger effect – – the more incompetent you are, the less your aware of your incompetence – – has found that people go from being circumspect beginners, who are perfectly aware of or their limitations, to "unconscious incompetents, "people who know longer realize how much they don't know and instead fancy themselves quite proficient. We start a promising job, only to be stymied in promotions over and over – – yet we cling to the notion that the job is great. We embark on a promising relationship, only to find we have less and less in common with our partner – – yet we forge ahead, refusing to admit that what seems so right is now wrong…. All too often, we stay in a hand long after we should've gotten out. Never feel like you have to do something just because it's expected of you – – even if you're the one who expects it of you. Know when to step back. Know when to recalibrate. Know when you need to reassess your strategy, prior plans be damned. We have won the impossible, improbable lottery of birth. And we don't know what will happen. We never can. There's no skill in birth and death. At the beginning and at the end, luck rains on unchallenged. Here's the truth: most of the world is noise and we spend most of our lives trying to make sense of it. We are, in the end, nothing more than interpreters of static. We can never see beyond the present moment. We don't know what the next card will be – – and we don't even know when we see it if it's good or bad. You can't control what will happen, so it makes no sense to try to guess at it. Chance is just chance: it is neither good nor bad nor personal. Without us to supply meaning, it's simply noise. The most that we can do is to learn to control what we can – – our thinking, our decision processes, our reactions. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control or body, property, reputation, command, and in one word, whatever are not our own actions. ( ) writemoves | Oct 26, 2021 | ) Matt_B | Oct 24, 2021 | inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on the role of chance had led her to a giant of game theory, who pointed her to poker as the ultimate master class in learning to distinguish between what can be controlled and what can't. And she certainly brought something to the table, including a PhD in psychology and an acclaimed and growing body of work on human behavior and how to hack it. So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year's World Series of Poker. But then something extraordinary happened. Under Seidel's guidance, Konnikova did have many epiphanies about life that derived from her new pursuit, including how to better read, not just her opponents but far more importantly herself; how to identify what tilted her into an emotional state that got in the way of good decisions; and how to get to a place where she could accept luck for what it was, and what it wasn't. But she also began to win. And win. In a little over a year, she began making earnest money from tournaments, ultimately totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. She won a major title, got a sponsor, and got used to being on television, and to headlines like "How one writer's book deal turned her into a professional poker player." She even learned to like Las Vegas. But in the end, Maria Konnikova is a writer and student of human behavior, and ultimately the point was to render her incredible journey into a container for its invaluable lessons. The biggest bluff of all, she learned, is that skill is enough. Bad cards will come our way, but keeping our focus on how we play them and not on the outcome will keep us moving through many a dark patch, until the luck once again breaks our way"-- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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