Thinking in Bets: Creating Smarter Decisions If You Don’t Have the Truth by Annie Duke

Annie Duke is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, the winner of the 2004 Tournament of Champions and the only woman to win the NBC National Poker Heads Up Championship. Now, as a professional speaker and decision strategist, she and her cognitive psychology grad work at UPenn merge her poker experience. She’s a creator of I Decide, a nonprofit that produces curricula and tools to enhance critical thinking abilities and decision making for middle schoolers.
Thinking in Bets provides a persuasive, and eminently useful, new way to consider life’s decisions. Annie Duke has written an important, and frequently hilarious, book which make smarter decisions because of this — and can help you understand your own shortcomings. You can bet on it.
A book both practical and entertaining, based as it is on lessons learned from tens of thousands of hours of decision making under pressure, as Annie Duke and high-stakes poker played. At heart, it is about how we distinguish skill from luck in conclusions, how we could improve the ability component of their balance,while knowing that fortune will play a part.

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