Listener Favorites: Annie Duke | How to Make Better Decisions by Thinking in Bets
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Annie Duke is an author and professional poker player. She joins us for this episode of the podcast to share her wisdom on making good decisions. We typically assume that decision making is something we will only get better at through trial, error, and often just pure luck. Annie shares a plethora of tips and strategies that we can implement and practice in our lives by simply thinking in bets. What she has to share holds the potential to greatly improve our understanding and ability to navigate decision making in a constructive and healthy way. The good decisions start now, take a listen.
Visit Annie’s website www.AnnieDuke.com to find her book, Thinking In Bets, or get in touch with her.
Annie Duke has founded a youth-focused non-profit organization, found at www.HowIDecide.org
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| 0:01.0 | One of the best ways to sort of dig down |
| 0:03.0 | and think about this is to think about ordering |
| 0:04.8 | in a restaurant. |
| 0:06.7 | So like, I'm sure you know these people who like, |
| 0:10.5 | I mean, literally, they're trying to solve, you know, |
| 0:14.3 | relativity or something like this. |
| 0:16.0 | It's like 20 minutes for them to try to decide. |
| 0:18.6 | And it's like, they're asking you, like, what do you think? |
| 0:20.6 | What should I order? |
| 0:22.0 | They're asking the waiter, like, you know, |
| 0:24.9 | what's between these dishes? |
| 0:26.6 | Like, which one would you have? |
| 0:28.3 | Um, right? |
| 0:30.3 | Um, but this is actually, this is actually quite a lot |
| 0:33.4 | of people are doing this, right? |
| 0:36.1 | And so, I think that if they just stopped and said |
| 0:40.7 | to themselves, you know, what are the stakes |
| 0:44.3 | of this decision? |
| 0:45.2 | Like, well, first of all, it's low stakes on its face |
| 0:47.5 | because you're going to eat another meal |
| 0:48.9 | and like, six hours. |
| 0:51.8 | But like, you're going to get another try really fast. |
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