[Transcript] The One P.c Present: Annie Duke

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Annie Duke is writer, company speaker, and guide within the decision-making house. She can also be a particular accomplice targeted on resolution science at First Spherical Capital Companions, a seed-stage enterprise fund. For 20 years, Annie was one of many high poker gamers on this planet. In 2004, she bested a discipline of 234 gamers to win her first World Sequence of Poker bracelet. The identical yr, she triumphed within the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only world collection of poker tournaments of champions. She retired from the sport in 2012. She can also be the writer of a number of fantastic books, together with Considering In Bets and How We Determine and her newest being “Give up – The Energy of Realizing When To Stroll Away”. 

In Give up, Annie attracts on tales from a large swath of excessive achievers, together with elite mountain climbers, enterprise leaders, and entertainers, to argue that quitting is an efficient factor when utilized on the proper time. And very like a poker profession, life, she says, is one lengthy recreation and the most important winners are additionally essentially the most strategic quitters. With this and no additional delay, Annie, welcome to The One P.c Present, and thanks a lot for agreeing to do that.