Welcome to episode 282 of Live Happy Now.

This is Paula Phelps, and this week we're going to learn a little bit about how to make better decisions.

We make decisions every day, but how often do you really think about the process that goes into making those choices?

Today's guest has built her life on making

the right decisions. Annie Duke is a former professional poker player who won more than $4 million in

tournament poker before retiring in 2012. But she also studied cognitive psychology, is a best-selling

author and a consultant on decision-making. Her new book, How to

Decide, picks up where her last book, Thinking in Betz, left off. And today, she's here to talk about

how to find better outcomes by changing the way we make our decisions. Annie, thank you so much

for coming on Live Happy Now. Thank you for having me. I'm excited

that we finally made this happen. I know it's been a long time in the making. Yes, I've wanted to

talk to you since your last book. So this is really exciting for me to be able to talk with you.

And I wanted to find out, first of all, like, why you wanted to write this book and why now was the right time for you to do that.

It's actually funny because it's something that I've kind of been clarifying in my own head as I've been kind of talking about the book, you know, what was the relationship?

Because it started off in one place and it kind of ended in another.

The place that started off was, obviously, I have a lot of readers of thinking and bets.

And thinking and bets is really what I would say, like a sort of big idea argument for really embracing uncertainty,

for recognizing how much uncertainty there is in the way that outcomes

and decision quality in particular related to each other and how that can wreak some havoc

in the way that you process information and the way that you make decisions and that perhaps

we should be doing something about that and And then there was like a little,

you know, there was some at the end about how you might fix those things. But it was more a why book.

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