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

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Welcome to the how to be awesome at your job podcast. The show where brilliant
0:05.3	professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at
0:09.4	work. Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning and money with your host Pete
0:15.2	Makaitas.
0:18.4	Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 614 with Annie Duke. Our poker
0:23.8	champion is back with more decision making wisdom. You'll learn one. Why your
0:29.0	decisions still matter even when you don't call the shots to the shift in
0:33.0	language that leads to more open conversations and three, how pros and cons
0:37.8	list can trick us into actually making worst decisions. So if you want to
0:42.6	check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adam to be
0:45.1	referenced, you can check out awesome at your job.com slash app 614. That's
0:50.6	also my job.com slash EP and the numbers 614 to see those goodies. And if you
0:57.0	want some other goodies such as summaries of Annie's wisdom and access to
1:02.2	the vault of all of these summaries, we call those the Golden Nuggets at
1:05.7	awesome at job.com. You can read them in about three minutes or less and get a
1:10.2	whole lot of wisdom, a whole lot of fast Golden Nuggets at awesome at job.com.
1:14.1	Now here's Annie's story. Annie Duke is an author, corporate speaker and
1:17.7	consultant in the decision making space. Annie's latest book How to Decide
1:21.7	Simple Tools for Making Better Choices is available October 15th. Right
1:27.3	about now, if you will, from Portfolio, the Penguin Random House imprint. Her
1:31.1	previous book thinking in bets is a national bestseller as a former professional
1:34.8	poker player, Annie won more than four million dollars in tournament poker
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