30 January 2019

To look forward to this half, we need to look backwards.

Annie Duke’s “Thinking in Bets”[1] is one of the best books of 2018. Annie was a psychology student who went on to become a world series poker champion and this is her book on how poker can help improve decision making in the real world. One of the key sections is on “resulting” – that being a tendency to judge decisions by their results rather than the process behind the decision. When was the last time you had a bad result yet said it was a good decision?

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