Bret McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

We all make mini decisions every single day, from little ones like What Eat for Breakfast

to big ones like Weather to take a new job.

Given how regularly we're deciding, we certainly have a vested interest in getting better

at the skill.

But how do we do so?

How can we get better at making big choices and spend less time dithering over the insignificant

minutia that often overwhelms our mental bandwidth?

And why did anyone teach us how to do this stuff to be good with?

My guest today is written a book that offers an education in a subject matter many of us

missed out on.

Her name is Annie Duke, she's a former professional poker player and is now a decision making

expert and strategist and her latest book is How to Decide, simple tools for making better

choices.

Today on the show, Annie shares many of those practical tools beginning with how to overcome

hindsight bias and resulting, which is our tendency to judge decisions based on their

outcomes by doing something called knowledge tracking.

We then discuss how to figure out the probabilities for things that seem difficult to predict and

the importance of embracing an archer's mindset when making decisions.

We then get into when you should make decisions slowly, when you can speed up, how to employ

the only option test, when making a choice, and why when a decision is hard, it's actually

really easy.

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