Ep: 014 - Maria Konnikova - Multi-Tasking & Uncluttering The 'Brain Attic'

Daily Two Minutes Of Greatness

Maria is the New York Times-bestselling author of The Confidence Game (Viking/Penguin 2016) and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes (Viking/Penguin, 2013). She is a contributing writer for The New Yorker, where she writes a regular column with a focus on psychology and culture, and is the host of the longform storytelling podcast from Panoply, The Grift. Her first book, Mastermind, has been translated into nineteen languages. It was nominated for the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award for Best Non-fiction and was a Goodreads People’s Choice Semifinalist for 2013. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, California Sunday, Pacific Standard, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, The Boston Globe, The Observer, Scientific American MIND, WIRED, and Scientific American, among numerous other publications. I was lucky enough to catch up with Maria in between her time playing in poker tournaments. Currently, Maria is playing poker full-time as research for her next book which uses No-Limit Texas Hold’em as a metaphor for life in exploring the relationship of chance and skill in our lives.