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Don't Trust Your Gut
- Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, read by Timothy Andrés Pabon.
When it comes to making big decisions, we might consult friends and family, read advice online or turn to self-help books for guidance. In the end, though, we usually just do what feels right. But what if our gut is wrong?
As economist and former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz argues, our gut is actually not that reliable—and data can prove this. In Don’t Trust Your Gut, he unearths the startling conclusions that the right data can teach us about who we are and what will make our lives better. Over the past decade, scholars have mined enormous datasets to find remarkable new approaches to life’s biggest self-help puzzles, from the boring careers that produce the most wealth, to old-school, data-backed relationship advice. While we often think we know how to better ourselves, the numbers, it turns out, disagree.
Telling fascinating stories through the latest big data research, Stephens-Davidowitz reveals just how wrong we really are when it comes to improving our lives, and offers a new way of tackling our most consequential choices.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-06-22
Fun but not much more.
Enjoyable listen. Lots of the information contained isn't that new, though is interesting. Would have liked it to be a little longer as it felt like there was room for more ideas to be explored.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-01-23
new information due to their importance
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- Daisy Welham
- 18-10-23
Well-written and entertaining
The book is well-written and entertaining, and gives a lot of interesting and useful information. Occasionally the author makes claims which do not seem to be well-supported by the evidence or exaggerates more than is justified. The book is well-performed and on the whole good.
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- George
- 03-10-22
Not worth your time
Not worth it.Full of generalisations, lack of in depth explanations and biased presentation of evidence.
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- wamco
- 02-10-22
1.75x Playback speed recommended
This book was painfully drawn out, very few actual non-obvious insights, all delivered in an annoying Sesame Street style. Had me silently shouting "yes we get it, move on" in every chapter. The author clearly got fed up with his own work and ramped up the expletives 2/3rds the way through. Thanks Audible for enabling faster playback speeds!
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- S. Smith
- 18-08-22
Excruciating
Seth writes as if he is desperately trying to convince you to come back after the ad break on a 90s daytime TV show.
He'll give you the interesting data, but not until he has:
- Told you three times that we now have data, where we didn't have it before
- Gotten you to guess what the results might be
- Plugged his previous book
- Told you, once again, that the results will surprise you
- Pulled a fake out on telling you the data
- Trotted out a dull personal anecdote
The first chapter reads like the pitch to his publisher. From there on out the content is incredibly thinly spread and drawn out.
Just like his previous book actually...
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