How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by Maria Konnikova
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Recommended by 8 notable people, including Daniel Pink and Gretchen Rubin
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How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decisionmaking and a woeful ignorance of cards into a lifechanging run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the gameIt's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know t...
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Recommended by 10 sources and appears in Memoirs, Most Recommended Books, and Psychology.
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“Soft-spoken, heavily illustrated fable built from short dialogues and watercolor sketches. Each spread pairs a spare line of text with a loose drawing, so the pleasure is visual and aphoristic rather than narrative; readers collect felt-true sentences more than plot. Most useful when you want quick consolations, a prompt for conversation with a child, or a pause during a rough day. Limiting if you want sustained argument, concrete advice, or tightly plotted storytelling: the repetition of gentleness can feel sentimental or thin after a while.”
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