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- Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
- Narrated by: Annie Duke
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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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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- Emily
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Heather
- 2023-03-20
similar to Quit
It is a good guide on decision making. if you read Quit, you won't get much more from this book. Both books are well done
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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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- jesse
- 2023-03-13
Painfully obvious
I really enjoyed Annie on a podcast, however it appeared to me like she took the payday here without actually having anything of value to write about. there are several pages explain the difference between upside and downside….I mean this in a literal sense provide pages of examples of upside being good and downside being bad.
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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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