Thinking in Bets — Quotes

Imported from: Clippings/Duke-Thinking-in-Bets.md

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Author: Annie Duke Source: Goodreads

20 quotes, one page each — split at import because this page carried more quoted words than the wiki publishes on a single page.

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts

Book page: duke-thinking-in-bets-part-1

• “What makes a decision great is not that…”
• “In most of our decisions, we are not…”
• “Improving decision quality is about increasing our chances…”
• “Thinking in bets starts with recognizing that there…”
• “Despite the popular wisdom that we achieve success…”
• “The secret is to make peace with walking…”
• “Even research communities of highly intelligent and well-meaning…”
• “Chess, for all its strategic complexity, isn’t a…”
• “Outcomes don’t tell us what’s our fault and…”
• “Truthseeking, the desire to know the truth regardless…”
• “Frame: the smarter you are, the better you…”
• “Experience can be an effective teacher. But, clearly…”
• “The decisions we make in our lives—in business…”
• “Identifying a negative outcome doesn’t have the same…”
• “Not all situations are appropriate for truthseeking, nor…”
• “Over time, those world-class poker players taught me…”
• “We might think of ourselves as open-minded and…”
• “As with visual illusions, we can’t make our…”
• “When someone asks you about a coin they…”
• “We behave according to what we bring to…”