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Maria Konnikova

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Total quotes: 3

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Maria Konnikova

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Educated At: Harvard University, Columbia University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Journalist

Total quotes: 3

“The dirty little secret of casual sex today is not that we’re having it but that we’re not sharing our experiences of it in the best way.”

— Maria Konnikova, Casual Sex: Everyone Is Doing It - The New Yorker

Tagged: Casual Sex, Sex, Communication, Honesty

“The very fact that Vrangalova and others are seeking explanations for casual-sex behaviors suggests that our society views it as worthy of note—something aberrant, rather than ordinary. No one writes about why people feel the need to drink water or go to the bathroom, why eating dinner with friends is ‘a thing’ or study groups are ‘on the rise.'”

— Maria Konnikova, Casual Sex: Everyone Is Doing It - The New Yorker

Tagged: Casual Sex, Sex, abnormal, unusual

“From a young age, resilient children tended to meet the world on their own terms. They were autonomous and independent, would seek out new experiences, and had a positive social orientation. Though not especially gifted, these children used whatever skills they had effectively. Perhaps most importantly, the resilient children had what psychologists call an “internal locus of control”: they believed that they, and not their circumstances, affected their achievements. The resilient children saw themselves as the orchestrators of their own fates.”

— Maria Konnikova, How People Learn to Become Resilient

Tagged: Philosophy, Pyschology, The Person You'll Become

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