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A review by rsr143
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova
3.0
A truly enjoyable book about one person's quest to rise from 0 to hero in a new field. The interleaving of the subject's experience with principles of Psychology, given her Ph.D. in the field, makes this a highly educational book without the dryness that often accompanies such non-fiction psych books. That said, I personally have little interest in poker, and found many of the details about the game and play-by-play commentary of specific hands and tournament results dry and boring.
Reading this book I came away with the feeling that learning rules to master a specific field/domain does matter, as does the seeking out of coaches and mentors to support the journey, but intuition plays a big part as well. How much of intuition is due to learning a domain vs just tapping into some sort of deeper invisible force? That's an open question.
Reading this book I came away with the feeling that learning rules to master a specific field/domain does matter, as does the seeking out of coaches and mentors to support the journey, but intuition plays a big part as well. How much of intuition is due to learning a domain vs just tapping into some sort of deeper invisible force? That's an open question.