Quotes by Maria Konnikova - Page 3

Thinking about time travel may seem like something humans have been doing since the first caveman dropped the first rock on his foot. But, even to begin to imagine the possibility of time travel, your mind must be able to wrap itself around the notion of a past and a future.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Notion
Possibility
Time Travel
Dropped
Future Time Travel
Foot
Wrap
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Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process and recall the facts that we are motivated to process and recall, while conveniently forgetting those that we would prefer weren't true.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Able
Discarded
Information
Motivated
Process
Actually
Prefer
Conveniently
Eagerly
Forgetting
Memory
Recall
Skewed
Supporting
While
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I've figured out how to turn what's different about me and limitations - I'm new to this world, I'm a woman, I don't have a math background - and how I use that to my advantage. They're what make me unique. In poker you learn very quickly, if you play like everyone else, you'll be fine, but you'll never be great.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Advantage
Math
Unique
Great World Me
Background
Everyone Else
Figured
Limitations
Poker
Quickly
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Storytelling is the oldest form of entertainment there is. From campfires and pictograms - the Lascaux cave paintings may be as much as twenty thousand years old - to tribal songs and epic ballads passed down from generation to generation, it is one of the most fundamental ways humans have of making sense of the world.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Ballads
Epic
Storytelling
Thousand
Thousand Years
Cave
Oldest
Paintings
Tribal
Twenty
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To a child, 'The Little Prince' is the story of a boy who falls from the sky, meets lots of funny people on his travels, and then returns to his star. But take a closer look and you find as clear a commentary on everything that's wrong with modern life - and what can be done to fix it - as you would in the most biting social satire.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Biting
Commentary
Funny People
Modern Life
Satire
Sky
Life Funny Look
Closer
Falls
Meets
Returns
Travels
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Each of us has a network of emotional and logical associations that is unique to us. Activate one mode of the association, and you activate a predictable pattern of behavior. A situation isn't just the external events that take place; it is how each individual processes those events and integrates them into her thoughts and feelings.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Activate
Association
Logical
Predictable
External
Each Individual
Mode
Pattern
Processes
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Many adult bullies hide behind the idea that bullying happens only among children. They conceive of themselves as adults who know better and are offering their hard-earned wisdom to others. The Internet makes that sort of certainty easier to attain: looking at their screens, adult bullies rarely see the impact of their words and actions.
Maria Konnikova / Writer
Bullying
Certainty
Offering
Screens
Attain
Bullies
Conceive
Hide
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