Make Better Decisions with Annie Duke

Persuasion Play

Do you have a hard time deciding what to order at a restaurant? Do you ever make the 'wrong' decision and, looking back, feel that you 'knew' it would turn out bad? Every moment of your life, you make decisions. Where to focus, who to marry, when to leave for a meeting. But very few of us translate our decision making into probabilities. Instead we make decisions based on feelings and get results influenced by luck. Annie Duke, author of "How To Decide" and "Thinking In Bets," discusses your decision making in Persuasion Play Podcast episode 10. In this episode: • Are your best decisions always the ones that turn out well? (1:50) • How "making your own luck" is a fallacy -- and the steps you can take to improve your chances of success (5:53) • Why the "Power of Negative Thinking" improves the results of your decisions (18:00) • How a "Decision Multiverse" gives you a better vision of your future (22:40) • How to expand your frame of reference to improve your understanding of data (30:59) • Why your ideas of probability may be wildly different from the people around you -- even if you seem to agree with one another (33:00) • The two-dimensional problem of your "pros and cons list" and the two additional pieces of information that can make your list useful (37:35) • The "lower-bound-upper-bound" method that improves your decisions when working with limited information (41:16) • When to make "fast decisions" to create more freedom in your life (48:59) • Why your "hard decisions" are actually some of the easier decisions you make (57:39) • How to sort your decisions to speed up your decision making process (61:57) • The best way to ask for advice if you want to hear the truth (63:57) Annie Duke & Jeffrey Thomas discuss decisions and luck, the limits of your understanding, & more. Improve your decision making today with Episode 10 of the Persuasion Play Podcast. Find Annie Duke at her website, https://www.annieduke.com/ Find Duke's best-selling books at Amazon: Thinking In Bets: https://bit.ly/duke-bets How To Decide: https://bit.ly/duke-decide For more Persuasion Play Podcasts, persuasion and marketing book summaries, hundreds of blog posts --and more-- check out https://PersuasionReadingList.com/ And to improve your business results using direct response marketing, connect with Jeffrey at https://RockPaperShootLLC.com/