Book cover of Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
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Poker player and business strategist Annie Duke shows you how to be confident with doubt and insecurity and ultimately make better choices. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial decisions in NFL history: he opted for a passed that was intercepted bringing his team to defeat. Did Carroll had a good plan that's been spoiled by poor luck or his call was just plan stupid ? Point is…
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Poker player and business strategist Annie Duke shows you how to be confident with doubt and insecurity and ultimately make better choices. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial decisions in NFL history: he opted for a passed that was intercepted bringing his team to defeat. Did Carroll had a good plan that’s been spoiled by poor luck or his call was just plan stupid ? Point is the right decision does not necessarily yield the perfect outcome. Theres is also an aspect of chance that you can’t manage, and information out of your reach. The trick to long-term sustainability is to think like a poker professional player, before each bet you must consider the odds. Which move has the highest probability of success? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion who is now a business strategist delivers advices on accepting randomness and making decisions to the best of your knowledge. It’s tough for many people to admit that nothing is certain in a society promoting the illusion of certitude. Yet experienced poker players are familiar with the fact that good decisions do not always lead to fantastic results and poor choices do not always end in bad outcomes. You can be less vulnerable to impulsive reactions or biased assumptions in your decision-making by changing your perspective.


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Poker player and business strategist Annie Duke shows you how to be confident with doubt and insecurity and ultimately make better choices. In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial decisions in NFL history: he opted for a passed that was intercepted bringing his team to defeat. Did Carroll had a good plan that’s been spoiled by poor luck or his call was just plan stupid ? Point is the right decision does not necessarily yield the perfect outcome. Theres is also an aspect of chance that you can’t manage, and information out of your reach. The trick to long-term sustainability is to think like a poker professional player, before each bet you must consider the odds. Which move has the highest probability of success? Annie Duke, a former World Series of Poker champion who is now a business strategist delivers advices on accepting randomness and making decisions to the best of your knowledge. It’s tough for many people to admit that nothing is certain in a society promoting the illusion of certitude. Yet experienced poker players are familiar with the fact that good decisions do not always lead to fantastic results and poor choices do not always end in bad outcomes. You can be less vulnerable to impulsive reactions or biased assumptions in your decision-making by changing your perspective.

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