Interdisciplinary Skills: Decision-Making – Annie Duke (2022)

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Good to see you too.

Now every time we talk about one of your books, you and I agree that neither one of us is gonna write another book.

Well, that's true.

So here we are again. What was the path to coming up with the idea for quit?

So here's the thing. So after the last book, really did say, like very much swear up and down that I wasn't gonna write another book. So what I realized though was that sometimes you need to write a book, like you just have to. And I think that that was true with my first general audience book, Thinking in Bats. It was something that I'd been thinking about for a decade before I actually kind of made the decision that I was going to sit down and write it. And so I think that was something that had been brewing in me for a long time. When I wrote How to Decide, it was meant to give people a pra

But I wouldn't say it was

a book like I had to write. It was a book that I felt was important to write for readers in relation to thinking in in beds. So after that, I was really like, I'm never writing another book again, because it really it's such torture to write a book. It's a lot of work. I swore that up and down to you. It was probably two months later that I asked you to get on a Zoom with me to talk about this topic of quitting. So what happened? Right? That's the question. Like, how did that happen so quickly? So it's a good example of overconfidence. Basically, here's what happened. I'm doing podcasts like t

So, Annie, as this book comes out and you're gonna go on the normal tour to spread the message about why this is so important, what's the main conclusion that you drew after being compelled to dive into the research leading to yet another book, which I believe will be another bestseller? I got it right with Morgan Housel's book, and I think I'm going to be right with this one too.