Does luck impact our success? | Maria Konnikova

Maria Konnikova, the author of The Confidence Game, asks, “Do you think you’re lucky?” What role does luck play in determining our success?
What do we control, what do we not - and can we learn to tell the difference?

This talk examines common human biases in thinking about chance - tendencies like the illusion of control, the optimism bias, and overconfidence - and strives to help us untangle fantasy from reality, to become better, more balanced decision makers.

Maria Konnikova is the New York Times best-selling author of The Confidence Game. Her first book, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, has been translated into eighteen languages.
This talk took place at CSICon Las Vegas on Friday, October 2017.

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[infinitechoices]

Anything that has chance involved in it is luck. You can not be good at being lucky or bad at being lucky. And poker is mostly luck but also alot of calculating and looking at faces/emotions. The best calculator, knowing faces/emotions does not have to be the best poker player thats out of his control. Luck easily has the most impact on our lives.

[arsenyyaguzhinsky]

I guess this is just a retell of her book about the poker stuff