Unlock Your Potential: Simple Strategies for Making Quality Decisions

Kindle Customer: Thank You Annie, for writing such a wonderful book, it's detailed explanation on how a decision can be made changed my thoughts process entirely.

Ita a Must Studied book as a Part of educational syllabus.

India on Nov 26, 2023

Chayo: Buen libro, con ejercicios incluidos, te ayuda con decisiones a largo plazo

Mexico on Oct 22, 2023

Kindle Customer: This is one of the best books on decision making I have ever read. It’s easy to read and well written. It is useful as a read and a reference. It’s very practical and does not make extravagant claims. I plan to keep it close to hand.

United States on Jul 19, 2023

Aveek: This books is about how to think; even though it has a different name. This book brings about some great concepts. So go ahead and read it

India on Jun 10, 2023

Alex Pickering: Our lives are produced by the decisions we make: what we eat, read, watch, our exercising or not, our choosing to move or attend one college over another, one field of study over another, whom to befriend or marry or stay away from; all of this, the fabric of our lives is woven with the thread of our decisions. Whatever you want to do, whoever or however you want to be, you will get there by way of daily decisions.

Terrified by the consequences of my decisions, I spent years deciding from-the-hip, regretting decisions which led to bad outcomes, and spending longer and longer trying not make the wrong choices. Under the weight of particularly oppressive analysis paralysis, I decided to pick up this book. It would not be an exaggeration to say that it drastically changed my relationship to decision-making, and made explainable the former mad god of consequences, providing the tools to face uncertainty with confidence.

The outcome of your life relies in part on your decisions, and this book, if taken seriously, will improve the quality of your decisions.

United States on Mar 04, 2023

Mark: Annie makes a point of knowing the difference between low-impact and high-impact decisions.
Annie cautions to Beware Hindsight Bias, as this assessment is based entirely on the decision’s outcome. It says little about the decision itself.
& since we often forget the process that went into a decision, but we usually remember the result, most people miss the value of learning from those experiences. Annie emphasizes that it is always a mistake use the quality of a result to assess the quality of a decision. & further, it is a mistake not to consider the role of luck. In psychology, it’s also known as outcome bias. Annie calls this "Resulting" & warns that it leads to repeating the same errors or faulty decisions because we’re not assessing the decision-making process at all. We’re only looking at the outcome.

Obviously, if we want to learn from our decisions, misremembering the facts after the outcome only confuses us on how we made the decision in the first place. Commonly, Hindsight bias had us convince ourselves that an outcome was obvious or predictable, but outcomes are very rarely inevitable.
Also known as "creeping determinism" , the way we...

United States on May 20, 2022

Ian MannIan Mann: How your life turns out, both in business and in your private life, is based on two factors: good decisions and luck. And you only have control over one of those factors – good decisions. As such, investing time and energy in improving your ability to decide more effectively, has to be a very valuable investment. That is undeniable. However, the most accessible decision tools are too simplistic or too flawed, and the best tend to being too complicated or tiresome.
Amazon lists over 80,000 books on decision making and decision theory. In my opinion this book is probably as good as they get. It combines simplicity of use with profound insights, made simple.
Author Annie Duke, was a PhD student in cognitive science. She was a professional poker player, a World Series of Poker ‘gold bracelet’ holder, who used to be the leading female money winner in WSOP history. She now trains people in decision making. This is more than a biographical note, it informs her understanding of risk and decisions.
Ask any executive, who is paid for little else other than making good decisions, what they really do in this area, and you will probably get one or more of these replies....

United States on Aug 03, 2021

Kilt_monster: There is some good content in this book, observations about how people actually work and blur fact and imagined remembering when it comes to decisions, also a perspective on how to build, evaluate and improve a decision making process. This content is really valuable. However, there is much fluff and padding and some frankly really bland examples it feels almost insulting as an adult to read through the filler content. If the author cared to edit this more they'd get it down to a third of the size and much more hard hitting.

United Kingdom on Apr 10, 2021

Ara Mamourian: Decent read. Some of it is pretty basic but overall solid book that focuses on the decision making process not the results

Canada on Mar 14, 2021