The next time that you find yourself saying, "I'm just not ready to decide yet," what you should actually say is "For now I think that the status quo… - Annie Duke

The promise of this book is that if we follow the example of poker players by making explicit that our decisions are bets, we can make better decisions and anticipate (and take protective measures) when irrationality is likely to keep us from acting in our best interest.

We would be better served as communicators and decision-makers if we thought less about whether we are confident in our beliefs and more about how confident we are. Instead of thinking of confidence as all-or-nothing ("I'm confident" or "I'm not confident"), our expression of our confidence would then capture all the shades of grey in between.

Despite the popular wisdom that we achieve success through positive visualization, it turns out that incorporating negative visualization makes us more likely to achieve our goals.