Just as great poker players and chess players (and experts in any field) excel by planning further into the future than others, our decision-making i… - Annie Duke

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Just as great poker players and chess players (and experts in any field) excel by planning further into the future than others, our decision-making improves when we can more vividly imagine the future, free of the distortions of the present. By working backward from the goal, we plan our decision tree in more depth, because we start at the end.

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Birth Name: Anne LaBarr Lederer
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