Annie Duke is the author of one of my favorite books, “Thinking In Bets”. I often find myself recommending it to both colleagues and friends and family who aren’t even in our business. While the book might be written by a poker player, and is somewhat about poker, it’s really
When something bad happens, it’s tempting to think that you made a bad decision. But the quality of your decision making doesn’t always align with the quality of your outcomes. Sometimes you make a good decision, and you have a bad outcome. Even more dangerous, sometimes you make a bad
Episode 90: Making Better Decisions with Annie Duke Why you shouldn’t use pro and con lists in making decisions The first thing you should do before making an important decision How you should ask other people for advice when you are making a difficult decision Episode 90: Making Better Decisions
A decade after Elizabeth’s family left the U.S. to live in Portugal, they’re wondering if it’s time to move back. So, we turn to professional poker player, Annie Duke, who treats every decision like it’s a bet. She says think of each choice as a wager on your future self.
Episode Info We’re “all-in” this week, as we welcome Annie Duke, author of Thinking In Bets and retired poker pro, to the show. Annie begins by sharing the long, winding path she took to become an author and expert in decision science. From her time as a PhD student in
Poker as a model system for life—how to improve decision making, use frameworks for learning, and apply ‘backcasting’ to boost your odds for future success “We don’t want [people] to be afraid of the bad outcomes. . .because we would like people to be innovative and push against the status
Annie Duke. Retired poker champion and winner of millions at the poker table. Now a leading decision-making theorist and author of Thinking in Bets. How do we improve our decision-making in life when things are uncertain?
“We have this battle between the person who we are right now and the person we want to be in the future.” There are many reasons we make poor decisions, but one reason is that we only take short-term gain into account. That’s why we have to be time-travelers—in a
“If the person in the room who’s in the leadership role says what their opinion is about something [first], generally what will happen is the people in the room will tend to start to reason toward that opinion. . . Once you’ve said that thing. . . you’ve ruined the
For two decades, Annie Duke was one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only World Series of Poker Tournament of