Annie Duke

You know, it's a rare thing that's going to happen.

So it's a rare thing and people think of it as a good thing.

And when you have a combination of something that's rare and something that people sort of consider as like universal good, right, then when they win the lottery, they think, oh, I got so lucky in a good sense, right?

I got good luck.

But we know that a lot of people's lives get ruined when they win the lottery.

But they don't find that out until a lot later, right?

And then maybe they look back and they go, oh, I wish I'd never won the lottery.

Because they realize that that judgment they made about whether the luck was good or bad, that they couldn't actually make that until their life unfolded.

So that's something that I think about a lot.

in my own life.

So when I, when I was just out of college, I went to graduate school and I was getting my PhD and I was there for five years.

I'd done all my PhD work.

I was going out on the job market and I'd been really struggling with, um,

a stomach issue that was like autoimmune related.

I didn't know that at the time, but I got actually really sick and I ended up in the hospital for two weeks.

And when I got really sick was right when I was supposed to be going out and like doing my job interviews and getting my

you know, starting on my academic path to become a tenured professor.

Like that was what I thought my life was going to be.

So now I land in the hospital for a couple of weeks.

I have a very long recuperation, lost, you know, 25 pounds because I couldn't keep any food down.