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40: Annie Duke | How to Make Decisions Like a Poker Champ

The Jordan Harbinger Show

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Evolution Prefers False Positives

Evolution really favors what are called type one errors, which are false positives. If you falsely run away when there's no lion there, you're better off than if you wrongly determine that there isn't a lion there and you stick around. So we're really kind of designed to be linking these things together in a really, really strong way. But this causes us to seek certainty, stability, but we can't work backwards from results because otherwise we're incorporating luck into or other factors into our decision making.

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