614: Making Smarter Decisions When You Can’t Know Everything with Annie Duke

Oct 15, 2020

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Poker champion Annie Duke shares tools to improve your decision-making process and your ability to predict the future.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) Why your decisions still matter, even when you don’t call the shots

2) The shift in language that leads to more open conversations

3) How a pros and cons list tricks us into making worse decisions

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— ABOUT ANNIE —

Annie Duke is an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space. Annie’s latest book, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, is available on October 15, 2020 from Portfolio, a Penguin Random House imprint. Her previous book, Thinking in Bets, is a national bestseller. As a former professional poker player, Annie won more than $4 million in tournament poker before retiring from the game in 2012. Prior to becoming a professional player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Annie is the co-founder of The Alliance for Decision Education, a non-profit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. She is also a member of the National Board of After-School All-Stars and the Board of Directors of the Franklin Institute. In 2020, she joined the board of the Renew Democracy Initiative.

• Annie’s book: How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale

• Book: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

• Book: The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova

• Book: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel

• Book: Noise by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, Cass Sunstein

• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Previous Episode: 281: Making Better Decisions by Thinking in Bets with Annie Duke

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