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Perfectly Confident
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Perfectly Confident

How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely

by Don A Moore

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7/ Decision makers should strive to improve their calibration, the alignment between their subjective probabilities and the objective outcome. @donandrewmoore has a great book on this. You get better with practice and feedback. | I read an average of one book a week plus I spend a lot of time finding out what to read next. I?ve chosen these books as my best reads this year (both science fiction and nonfiction). #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #Technology, #book #reading #read | I read an average of one book a week plus I spend a lot of time finding out what to read next. I’ve chosen these books as my best reads this year (both science fiction and nonfiction). #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #Technology, #book #reading #read | In every decision you make and every goal you set, there are two easy ways to fail: having too little confidence and having too much. As a Berkeley psychologist, Don Moore has spent his career studying how to find the sweet spot, and his book is full of datadriven guidance for making more accurate assessments of your abilities and opportunities.

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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Psychology, and Social Sciences.

An expert on the psychology of decision making at Berkeley?s Haas School of Business considers how to calibrate examines the importance of being confident, arguing that confidence is good, but overconfidence can hinder growth.A surge of confidence can feel fantastic?offering a rush of energy, even a dazzling vision of the future. It can give us cou...

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Organizational psychologist; Wharton professor

7/ Decision makers should strive to improve their calibration, the alignment between their subjective probabilities and the objective outcome. @donandrewmoore has a great book on this. You get better with practice and feedback. | I read an average of one book a week plus I spend a lot of time finding out what to read next. I?ve chosen these books as my best reads this year (both science fiction and nonfiction). #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #Technology, #book #reading #read | I read an average of one book a week plus I spend a lot of time finding out what to read next. I’ve chosen these books as my best reads this year (both science fiction and nonfiction). #themedicalfuturist #digitalhealth #future #healthcare #Technology, #book #reading #read | In every decision you make and every goal you set, there are two easy ways to fail: having too little confidence and having too much. As a Berkeley psychologist, Don Moore has spent his career studying how to find the sweet spot, and his book is full of datadriven guidance for making more accurate assessments of your abilities and opportunities.
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