How to Decide: Why We Judge Decisions the Wrong Way
by Annie Duke
Mentioned once across 1 show · first heard Apr 2026 on On Purpose with Jay Shetty.
The general take
Jay Shetty highly recommends "How to Decide" by Annie Duke, particularly for its core insight that people wrongly equate decision quality with outcomes—a distinction he wishes he'd understood in his 20s. He's enthusiastic about the book because it doesn't prescribe what to decide, but rather fixes how you evaluate decisions themselves, which he sees as fundamental to better judgment.
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Jay Shetty👍 Recommends
…examining how people wrongly judge decision quality by outcomes rather than process
“The first book on my list is How to Decide by Annie Duke. Here's the lesson. You are confusing the quality of your decisions with the quality of your outcomes. And it's destroying your judgment. This is the book I wish I'd read before I made every major decision in my 20s. Not because it tells you what to decide. Because it exposes the fundamental error in how you evaluate your own decisions.”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty — 10 Books That Changed My Lifeat 03:46
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