The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

by Maria Konnikova

I never called back quite quickly enough. She’d been through World War II, survived Stalin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev, and was defeated by a slippery floor and one misplaced foot. Unfair. Or rather, unlucky. One surer step and she’d still be here.