Mike Carruthers

But actually, when you think about all the decisions you make every day, and you make a lot of them, you do just fine.

And in fact, most of them don't really matter all that much.

To understand what I mean and why this is important to you, I want you to meet Annie Duke.

She's a speaker and consultant on the topic of decision-making.

She's a former professional poker player, and she is an advocate in the world of decision-making.

She's an advocate for people giving themselves permission to quit things more often.

She's the author of a book called How to Decide, Simple Tools for Making Better Choices.

Hi, Annie, welcome to Something You Should Know.

So as I said, you could get the sense from all the books about the topic that we're not very good at decision making, that we're terrible at it.

Are we terrible at it?

So I remember hearing once, and I always thought this was interesting, that in many cases, it isn't so much what you decide as your commitment to your decision.

That whatever you decide, if you commit to it rather than second guess it after the fact, that you'll be a lot happier and content.

It seems an important element in decision-making that maybe doesn't get talked a lot about is timing, that you have to make a decision about something, but you also have a time limit because if the time expires, the decision doesn't matter.

Some people take a long time to make decisions.

Other people make them quickly.

What do you think?

Drives me crazy.

Yeah, not much.

We're talking about decisions we make and why we spend a lot of time on making decisions that don't really matter much.

My guest is Annie Duke.