Thinking In Bets: How to Become Comfortable With Uncertainty (Ep. 18)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Life is more like poker than chess. At least according to the book we've been reading: Thinking in Bets, by Annie Duke. Do you know what you don't know?

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2:20.0	I feel a lot better just about my daily routine. Yeah. I'm getting outside. I'm getting
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