Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2023-01-18
Steve Levitt & Annie Duke: books mentioned on People I (Mostly) Admire #93
Annie Duke Thinks You Should Quit | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 93
Steve Levitt recommended Quit by Annie Duke, and discussed Grit by Angela Duckworth, GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE by Angela Duckworth, and The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. Annie Duke discussed Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke. Also mentioned: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Quit
Recommended“in her latest book entitled quit the power of knowing when to walk away and he tackles one of my favorite subjects quitting”
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Grit
Discussed“so I want to talk about grit versus quitting grid of course is a very popular book by psychologist Angela Duckworth who also co-hosts the podcast no stupid questions and her book's about the value of perseverance”
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GRIT The Power of PASSION and PERSEVERANCE
Discussed“So, I want to talk about grit versus quitting. Grid, of course, is a very popular book by psychologist Angela Duckworth, who also co-hosts the podcast No Stupid Questions.”
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The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Discussed“So, I want to talk about grit versus quitting. Grid, of course, is a very popular book by psychologist Angela Duckworth, who also co-hosts the podcast No Stupid Questions.”
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Thinking in Bets
Discussed“but also when I'm thinking about even the book quit or thinking in bats which did get published I did tons and tons of quitting along the way”
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Freakonomics
Discussed“a lot of people paid money to read Freakonomics now I get that that's not a company but does the University benefit from having a professor publish a popular book”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Superforecasting
“during covid Phil tetlock who wrote super forecast day sure reached out to me and asked me to do some research on counterfactual forecasting with him”
Passing Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Having spent time around Danny Kahneman, a Nobel Laureate in behavioral economics, I once asked him how he could spend his life studying decision-making while being terrible at it.”