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Maria Konnikova

Author; Psychologist; Poker Player

Author; Psychologist; Poker Player

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Brooklyn, NY, USA
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Maria Konnikova Biography

Maria Konnikova is a Russian-American writer and psychologist. She has a B.A. in psychology and creative writing from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. She has worked as a television producer, written for several magazines and online publications, and authored two New York Times best selling books. She primarily writes about psychology and its application to real life situations.

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 currently working on an assortment of non-fiction and fiction projects.

She is interested in poker and described it as a way to examine the mind’s responses to conditions that involve both skill and chance. Her upcoming book will explore "...poker as a metaphor for life in general." To research this book, Konnikova made contact with Erik Seidel, who allowed her to observe him competing at an event for high-stakes players.

After starting with $20 and $40 tournaments, she began playing in higher stakes tournaments. Konnikova has taken up professional poker playing full-time, and is an Ambassador of Poker League of Nations, the world's largest women's poker organization. In 2018, Konnikova decided to delay work on her book to compete in more poker tournaments with higher stakes.

Maria Konnikova Speaking Topics

  • How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

    No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these abilities ourselves, to improve our lives at work and at home? We can, says psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova, and in this talk, she shows us how. Beginning with the “brain attic”—Holmes’s metaphor for how we store information and organize knowledge—Konnikova unpacks the mental strategies that lead to clearer thinking and deeper insights. Drawing on neuroscience and psychology, she explores Holmes’s unique methods of ever-present mindfulness, astute observation, and logical deduction. In doing so, she teaches how anyone, with some self-awareness and a little practice, can employ these same methods to sharpen their perceptions, solve difficult problems, and enhance our creative powers.

Maria Konnikova Videos

  • Poker: The high-stakes way to unlock your potential | Maria Konnikova
    Poker: The High-Stakes Way to Unlock Your Potential with Maria Konnikova Moderated by Winsome Brown When best-selling author and journalist...
  • Maria Konnikova: Unclutter Your Brain Attic Like Sherlock Holmes
  • Maria Konnikova: Sherlock Holmes Could Have Invented Google

Maria Konnikova Books

  • Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
    Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes
  • The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It . . . Every Time
    The Confidence Game: Why We Fall For It . . . Every Time

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Maria Konnikova is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. The estimated speaking fee range to book Maria Konnikova for your event is $30,000 - $50,000. Maria Konnikova generally travels from Brooklyn, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Mary Pope Osborne, Julian Baggini, Tracy Chevalier, Anna Holmes and Jeffrey Kluger. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Maria Konnikova for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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