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Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result.

About the Author

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 merges her poker expertise with her cognitive psychology graduate work at UPenn. She is a founder of How I Decide, a non-profit that creates curricula and tools to improve decision making and critical thinking skills for under-served middle schoolers.

Reviews

"A mind-bending and indispensable book for entrepreneurs, leaders, and anyone who faces risk on a regular basis."

-- Olivia Fox Cabane author of The Net and the Butterfly
Brilliant. Buy ten copies and give one to everyone you work with. It's that good. -- Seth Godin, author of The Icarus Deception

"Through wonderful storytelling and sly wit, Annie Duke has crafted the ultimate guide to thinking about risk. We can all learn how to make better decisions by learning from someone who made choices for a living, with millions on the line."

-- Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better
Thinking in Bets offers a compelling, and eminently useful, new way to think about life's decisions. Annie Duke has written an important, and often hilarious, book that will help you understand your own shortcomings--and make smarter choices as a result. You can bet on it. -- Maria Konnikova, author of The Confidence Game and Mastermind
An elegant fusion of poker-table street-smarts and cognitive science insights. This book will make you both a shrewder and wiser player in the game of life. -- Philip E. Tetlock, author of Superforecasting