Book · 2020 · Economics
How to Decide
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You are confusing the quality of your decisions with the quality of your outcomes, and it's destroying your judgment.
Jay Shetty · On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Apr 2026 Listen at 1:46 What they say about it
- Recommends the book“positively impact your life”2
The best things said about it
These books are going to positively impact your life.
Her most recent book, How to Decide, is another awesome one.
Ryan Holiday The Daily Stoic · Feb 2021 There's one idea that i love from annie duke's book how to how to decide and it helped me understand this more clearly she writes about a mistake called resulting.
Jay Shetty On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Sep 2026 As the author of one of my favorite books, what motivated you to do a sequel, your new book, How to Decide?
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How to Decide by Annie Duke is a practical guide offering simple tools for making better choices when faced with uncertainty. Jay Shetty recommended the book on On Purpose with Jay Shetty, identifying it as a life-changing read that tackles the dangerous habit of confusing decision quality with outcome quality, a mistake he noted as resulting. Brad Barrett also enthusiastically endorsed the book on ChooseFI, noting alongside his co-host that both of Annie Duke's works would positively impact readers' lives and teaching how to consult others for advice without biasing them by preserving their original state of knowledge. Ryan Holiday recommended it multiple times on The Daily Stoic, describing it as an awesome, highly practical companion to her earlier work, Thinking in Bets. Additionally, Chris Williamson promoted the title in the show notes of Modern Wisdom. Reviewers and podcasters alike continually return to Duke's insights to help listeners navigate high-stakes choices, mitigate the psychological traps of hindsight bias, and separate the inherent risk of a choice from its ultimate result. Her work provides a structured framework for thinking clearly through complex personal and professional dilemmas, earning praise across multiple self-improvement and philosophical platforms for its clarity and actionable wisdom.
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Ryan Holiday And her other book, How to Decide, it's also quite good. Recommending all of Annie's stuff if you haven't r… 3
“And her other book, How to Decide, it's also quite good. Recommending all of Annie's stuff if you haven't read any of it already.”
“Her most recent book, How to Decide, is another awesome one. She's a best-selling author...”
“You can check out Annie's books, How to Decide, Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, and, of course, Thinking in Bets, Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts.”
Brad Barrett and both of Annie's books frankly right thinking in bets and how to decide I mean these books are going to… 2
“and and yeah as Annie said in her book how to decide she said you want them quote as closely as possible into the same state of knowledge that you were in at the time you made your decision”
“and both of Annie's books frankly right thinking in bets and how to decide I mean these books are going to positively impact your life”
Jay Shetty The first book on my list is How to Decide by Annie Duke. Here's the lesson. You are confusing the quality… 2
“there's one idea that i love from annie duke's book how to how to decide and it helped me understand this more clearly she writes about a mistake called resulting”
“The first book on my list is How to Decide by Annie Duke. Here's the lesson. You are confusing the quality of your decisions with the quality of your outcomes, and it's destroying your judgment.”
Chris Williamson how to decide simple tools for making better choices will be linked in the show notes below 1
“how to decide simple tools for making better choices will be linked in the show notes below”
Annie Duke So, you know, both of my books kind of start a little bit in the same place and then they diverge from each… 3
“So, you know, both of my books kind of start a little bit in the same place and then they diverge from each other.”
“So I have tools in the book which will help you sort of reconstruct these things retroactively.”
“So I spend the first six chapters really kind of laying out what a pretty robust decision process would look like.”
Jeff Jordan So Annie, as the author of one of my favorite books, what motivated you to do a sequel, your new book, How… 2
“So Annie, as the author of one of my favorite books, what motivated you to do a sequel, your new book, How to Decide, simple tools for making better choices, how to decide?”
“And so you come to the same conclusion in the book.”
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“I actually have a whole chapter on that and how to decide.”
“she has a brand new book how to decide which I believe was probably one that was from the Groundswell request that she got from her Community”
“How to decide simple tools for making better choices will be linked in the show notes below”
“But in this episode, we talk about her new book, How to Decide, which picks up where the last book left off.”
“and she has a new book coming out this september called how to decide simple tools for making better choices”