Annie Duke

And I think that that's amazing.

Like the way that you were putting those in this kind of intuitive way was so helpful and so fun for me in terms of the conversation.

So I just really want to say I appreciated that so much about you.

And the conversation was super fun for me.

Thank you so much for having me.

Well, thank you for having me, Mike.

Look, if we were really terrible at making decisions, our species wouldn't exist.

The issue that we have is that we have all these ways that we make decisions that work most of the time.

They're pretty good.

The problem is that there's a whole set of circumstances under which they don't work, which would be true of kind of any rule of thumb.

So there are certain heuristics that we use in order to make decisions.

There are biases that we have in the decisions that we make that cause us to make poor decisions under certain and predictable circumstances.

Yeah, so it's an interesting trade-off.

And B, I think it depends a little bit about what arena we're talking about.

I think in general, for things like marriage, which is supposed to be a lifelong commitment, getting married and then immediately starting to second-guess that would be bad for your happiness.

I think that's absolutely true.

So you definitely don't want to second-guess things too much.

I think that in general, if you go to college and you're constantly second-guessing

Your choice of college, for example, you're going to be less happy.

If you take a job and you're constantly second guessing the job that you take, you're going to be less happy.