Strategic decision-making approaches to build wisdom in your everyday decisions.
Annie Duke is the author of Thinking in Bets - A book full of genius psychology and poker tips to help you build mental models to make better decisions.
Annie is a psychologist studying cognitive behavioural decision science and in her life as a professional poker player she won the World Series. She was even the highest-paid female player in history when she retired.
Her psychology helped her poker and her poker helped her psychology.
The summation of her lessons are wrapped up in the book 'thinking in bets' and in today's episode I break down my 5 favourite rules and mental models from the book that are worth using in your life.
At a simple level, building wisdom is the process of making better decisions. Nothing more. so that's what we're going to learn about today
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Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/episode/1GXnNJqhPfZJtLxb7M3dCp?si=8e8a2edaa82f4ada
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Chapters
00:00 Thinking in Bets summary - Understanding life's chances
01:56 How Annie Got into Poker
04:24 Rule 1 - Seek Truth
05:26 Rule 2 - Do not chase losses
07:08 Mental models
07:35 Model 1 - Wisdom is good choices - (you don't know what a good choice is)
10:32 Model 2 - Question common knowledge
12:55 Model 3 - Make bets
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