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How to Decide
- Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
- Narrated by: Annie Duke
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Personal Success
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Publisher's Summary
Through a blend of compelling exercises and stories, the best-selling author of Thinking in Bets will train you to combat your own biases, address your weaknesses, and help you become a better and more confident decision-maker.
What do you do when you're faced with a big decision? If you're like most people, you probably make a pro and con list, spend a lot of time obsessing about decisions that didn't work out, get caught in analysis paralysis, endlessly seek other people's opinions to find just that little bit of extra information that might make you sure, and finally go with your gut.
What if there was a better way to make quality decisions so you can think clearly, feel more confident, second-guess yourself less, and ultimately be more decisive and be more productive?
Making good decisions doesn't have to be a series of endless guesswork. Rather, it's a teachable skill that anyone can sharpen. In How to Decide, best-selling author Annie Duke and former professional poker player lays out a series of tools anyone can use to make better decisions. You'll learn:
- To identify and dismantle hidden biases.
- To extract the highest quality feedback from those whose advice you seek.
- To more accurately identify the influence of luck in the outcome of your decisions.
- When to decide fast, when to decide slow, and when to decide in advance.
- To make decisions that more effectively help you to realize your goals and live your values.
Through interactive exercises and engaging thought experiments, this audiobook helps you analyze key decisions you've made in the past and troubleshoot those you're making in the future. Whether you're picking investments, evaluating a job offer, or trying to figure out your romantic life, How to Decide is the key to happier outcomes and fewer regrets.
This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF of interactive exercises and engaging thought experiments.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
What the critics say
"How to Decide is a delightful, practical guide to making better decisions in a complex world. Annie Duke explains exactly how to cut through the biases that prevent most of us from making wise choices and offers readers a toolkit for learning from the past and tackling the future in an uncertain world. I look forward to assigning this book to my Wharton students for many years to come.” (Katy Milkman, Professor at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania and host of the Choiceology podcast)
"This is a vitally important book. Simple, powerful and generous, it should be required reading." (Seth Godin, author of This is Marketing)
"Annie Duke gives you the tools you need and tells you how to use them effectively. Smart and practical, How to Decide is the best user's guide to decision-making that you'll find." (Michael J. Mauboussin, author of The Success Equation)
"What a phenomenal achievement! Written with zest, flair, and compassion, it's a ton of fun, and it's also packed with original ideas." (Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens)
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- SavioRoca
- 2020-12-26
Practical and enjoyble in the same time
The first read was just a recon. Listened to it in bed without using the PDF. I loved it and now I am ready to go chapter by chapter and start applying the core concepts. Some will say that nothing new and I will agree that many ideas are so practical that seems we knew them for a lifetime. However, reviewing my past and present actions I realized that I never understood them do to lack of clarity. Annie does a great job not just clarifing them but giving tools to apply them. I recommend this book as a general knowledge to everyone. I just wait to recommended to my son and daughter and order hard copies since they are more old school than I am.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-04-13
Big fan of Annie
This is a very, VERY great book written by one of the absolute best thinkers on decision making. Implement one or more of the things taught here in your business, in your life, wherever. I’ve been faithfully following the “if a decision is hard then it’s easy” and have quickly seen the impact in efficiency. When you can identify what type of a decision is required, how quickly you need to make it, the potential opportunity costs and it’s potential impact or significance. Learned how to make better decisions and how you work and think in ways you’re not even aware of. BIG fan of Annie. If you aren’t familiar with Thinking in Bets <- throw that in the search and download immediately.
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- Rémi Dion
- 2021-11-26
Repetitive
Some useful nuggets hidden through overly simple examples and repetitive content. The author would win me over with use cases and studies emphasizing her point.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-27
Must read for maximizers!
I really enjoyed this audiobook and love that it came with a PDF full of practical tools for making better decisions. I have been a maximizer for SO long and waste a lot of time because of it. This book made me realize that I was trying to judge the quality of my decisions based on possible outcomes that I can't possibly know in advance. Thank you for this book! Looking forward to using these strategies and tools moving forward.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-12-05
Good Audiobook.
Great listen. An insightful view into decision making. Will be applying the tips from this book to future decisions such as investments.
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- Laura
- 2020-11-20
Tangible and Actionable
Take the Gamble on this book. Her previous book “thinking in bets” was a great way to make a mind shift. This provides you with the step by step instructions on how to make better decisions in a group, solo or during a strategic planning session.
My heart felt gratitude for another tool I can use right away.
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- Jerry Fletcher
- 2020-11-24
A lot of useless fluff
If she gives the listener permission one more time to stop and take notes, I’m gonna throw my phone out the window.
Here’s the WHOLE book: making a good decision is about odds, not outcome. Just like in poker.
Add hours and hours of blabbing on and on to the above and you have this book.
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- nihonmufasa
- 2021-02-20
Good content but hard to listen to
content is good but author's voice and lisp made it almost unlistenable for me. I realize this sounds petty and heartless but when paying for an audio book I expect a professional sounding narration.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-03-20
Decide to Decide on this book. Great.
Wonderfully spoken by the author herself. A wonderful tour of decisions from a learned cognitive scientist, world class poker player, mother and wife. This book is for busy overwhelmed people who need help making decisions on what matters to them.
It is published as a written WORK book (pen not included) which is great for the plane, train or just a rainy weekend. As an audio book reviewing the included PDF is required to get the full impact of the concepts. After my second listen the clear simple and elegant techniques had me chuckling watching others stress with seemingly simple decisions. This book is a stress reliever and gives solid ground to make a quality decision with confidence. Her other book "Thinking in bets" is great too. Thank you Anne. Great!
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- Andro Diaz
- 2021-02-08
Learned a lot
What I liked:
1. You get a lot of tools that help you make better decisions and remove your biases.
2. Some of the moments where she asks you to write stuff down really helps get your thoughts in order.
3. My favorite chapter is the one on removing analysis paralysis. It will definitely speed up your decision making.
What I didn’t like:
1. Sometimes, she asks you to write stuff down when just thinking of your answer is more than enough.
2. Some chapters are extremely redundant. I get that it can help you remember things better, but I feel like some of these 1 hour chapters could be summarized in a few sentences.
All in all, I do recommend the book, you just need to be patient. I listened to the whole book, but if you want to learn fast, listen to the last few minutes of each chapter.
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- chris boutte
- 2020-10-31
An amazing book for making better decisions
On my Twitter account, I asked how many people have trouble making decisions, and over 50% of people said yes.
I fell in love with Annie Duke's work after I read her last book Thinking in Bets, and I've been eagerly waiting for this book to come out for months. Annie is a former professional poker player who also studies psychology, so her perspective is extremely unique. At first, when I started reading this book, it felt like a lot of repeat information from her previous book, but I was extremely wrong. Annie not only presents a lot of new information, but she provides practical examples of when and how we make decisions, and the physical copy of the book comes with a lot of different exercises to try out.
Recently, I became interested in risk assessment, and it blends perfectly with learning about how to make better decisions. We make hundreds of small decisions a day, and there are opportunity costs to most of them. Then, we have to make bigger decisions about job changes and relationships, which can be extremely stressful. Annie sets the foundation by explaining how we don't have control over the results, but we have a lot of strategies we can use to make the best decisions possible.
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- Dale Schaeffer
- 2021-01-03
A great overview of eliminating confirmation bias in decision making
Annie does a great job giving practical tools for improving decision making. I already was using several of them (such as doing quick dirty anonymous polling in meetings) but others like creating decision trees and projecting the likelihood of success or failure for each decision have been really helpful. For example, our daughter is a senior and trying to decide on which college to attend. She’s been super stressed about it. Having her create a decision tree and project likely outcomes helped her narrow her decision down to three schools and gave her clear next steps on how to get better information on each school in making her final decision later this spring.
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- Julian G.
- 2020-11-27
Go Slow to Go Fast
I'll start by saying I'm a fan of Annie Duke. Listened to Thinking In Bets and currently have her poker book in my library although it's taking me some time to get through it (and actually start playing poker). That said, this book is a great thinking methods book.
For someone looking for a quick process, the book may disappointment, but I think over time, one internalizes the steps and intuitively becomes a better deciderer...lol
I'm a fan of poker books, especially the memoire style ones that translates poker lessons into real life. I know it's become a little cliche, but I tend to pay attention to the cliff notes because good poker players are generally good thinkers, and we all need to be better thinkers in all parts of our lives. This book is in that genre without overtly being it. Annie only mentions one or two poker terms like tilt. Which is cool because knowing nothing of poker or that she is a poker star doesn't get in the way of these great skills she gives in the book.
Annie's voice is sometimes an acquired taste, but as I led with, I'm a fan!
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- Bookworm in PA
- 2020-11-16
Excellent book! Fascinating content.
I easily finish the book. The performance by the author as a narrator is excellent. Very thought-provoking.
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- alfonso alvarez
- 2022-04-28
I can’t decide
A lot of what if? Scenarios for a better out come, I was expecting more of a live with the responsibility and own your choice’s or you decided and it didn’t work out great, now how do we fix it or live with it.
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- markofu
- 2022-04-12
Frameworks
I really enjoyed this book (though be prepared to make notes & stop). I found that it provided good frameworks for making decisions, while providing evidence to back up how and why they work.