Annie Duke Books

In any situation, the best decision isn’t guaranteed to work out, and even terrible decisions can sometimes turn out to be the right ones. So when things go wrong, who do we blame and why? And what about when things go right? In Thinking In Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts (2018), poker champion, author and business consultant Annie Duke shows how our addiction to outcomes leads to irrational thinking and the confusion of luck with skill.

• Gamblers
• Decision-phobes
• Anyone who wants to stop making the same mistakes over and over

How to Decide (2020) investigates the way we make decisions, as well as common types of bias and faulty techniques that afflict them. It teaches you how to identify different types of decisions, and then design practical processes to help slow down or speed up the deliberation process accordingly.

• Anyone interested in decision-making strategies
• People who like psychology
• Business managers who make big decisions regularly

Quit (2022) makes the case for an undervalued and important skill that can lead to success: knowing when to bow out. It lends nuance to the old-school advice that grit and perseverance are necessary to achieve goals – and offers a manual on how to quit, even when it’s difficult. 

• People facing a big decision or planning ahead for a major life change 
• Highly motivated people who find the prospect of quitting appalling
• Those stuck in a career or project that feels like a dead end