Duke — “Over time, those world-class poker players taught me…”

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

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

From: Thinking in Bets — Quotes

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Over time, those world-class poker players taught me to understand what a bet really is: a decision about an uncertain future. The implications of treating decisions as bets made it possible for me to find learning opportunities in uncertain environments. Treating decisions as bets, I discovered, helped me avoid common decision traps, learn from results in a more rational way, and keep emotions out of the process as much as possible.