Ep. 629: Annie Duke Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Annie Duke, an author, corporate speaker, and consultant in the decision-making space. 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.

The topic is her book Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Crypto currency bubble
Decision making
Game theory
Decision making groups
Noisy feedback
Decisions in uncertainty

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today is the author of a new book,
0:37.1	Thinking and Betts, Making Smarter Decisions
0:40.1	When You Don't Have All the Facts.
0:42.6	She has appeared on this podcast twice before, but this is her first book, and I'm so appreciative
0:47.8	that she has appeared yet again.
0:50.6	Annie Duke has devoted her life to the study of decision-making under pressure.
0:54.7	She's had a prior career as a professional poker player, won over $4 million in tournament poker.
1:01.6	But now with this book, she's gone ahead and taken her poker expertise,
1:07.4	her graduate level research in psychology, and she combines it all into a unique perspective
1:14.8	that we can all apply to our everyday lives.
1:20.0	Without further ado, let's jump right in with Annie Duke.
1:23.5	Thank you. So, Annie, I must offer the congratulations.
1:35.0	You have had quite a few achievements in your life already, but I have a sneaky suspicion
1:39.5	that this book stuff is going to raise the profile in a way that even you might not expect.
1:45.6	I'm not predicting nor do I know what that raising of profile will be.
1:49.9	But considering the content, which covers so many areas, so many walks of life,
1:55.8	I have a sneaky suspicion in a year's time.
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