Don't Trust Your Gut

Using Data Instead of Instinct to Make Better Choices

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Don't Trust Your Gut

By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

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Bloomsbury presents Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, read by Timothy Andrés Pabon.

THE NEW BOOK FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EVERYBODY LIES

'Don’t Trust Your Gut is a tour de force — an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity' DANIEL H. PINK

'Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an expert on data-driven thinking, and this engaging book is full of surprising, useful insights for using the information at your fingertips to make better decisions' ADAM GRANT

Big decisions are hard. We might consult friends and family, read advice online or turn to self-help books for guidance, but in the end 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.©2022 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Seth Stephens-DavidowitzTimothy Andrés PabonBloomsbury Publishing

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Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is more than a data scientist. He is a prophet for how to use the data revolution to reimagine your life. Don’t Trust Your Gut is a tour de force – an intoxicating blend of analysis, humor, and humanity (Daniel H. Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author)

This must-read book is packed with helpful discoveries you can use to improve your life, and each is grounded in data. It’s also a page-turner – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a smart, witty writer with an extraordinary ability to make charts and statistics engrossing (Katherine Milkman, author of HOW TO CHANGE)

There are two ways to look at big data: as a threat to your intuition or as a resource to test your intuition. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is an expert on data-driven thinking, and this engaging book is full of surprising, useful insights for using the information at your fingertips to make better decisions (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN)

How can you look your best? Who should you marry? What makes a good parent? Are you too old to start a business? How can you get rich? What would make you happy? Would you read a book that helps you answer even one of these questions? Seth Stephens-Davidowitz delivers: a cross between Freakonomics and How to Win Friends and Influence People, Don’t Trust Your Gut is your guide for reliable data-driven hacks to get an edge in life (Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group)

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz’s book is a brilliant and clever look into the critical importance of making data-informed decisions for a data-first organization. His truly game-changing approach provided a pivotal moment for me as a leader and his insightful yet humorous writing style is sure to do the same for many others (Mindy Grossman, CEO of Weight Watchers)

I love the way Seth Stephens-Davidowitz explains how we can better live our lives by exploiting the small advantages in life. On the basketball court, I made a career out of finding these types of minor advantages, and I’ve found that most successful individuals in life value the accumulation of small advantages. In the end, they add up to significant life benefits (Shane Battier, two-time NBA Champion basketball player for the Miami Heat)

Stephens-Davidowitz maintains a breezy, conversational style that lends a lighthearted touch to all the wonkery. Whether confirming or debunking conventional wisdom, the smooth presentation and quantitative detail bring a welcome analytical rigor to the self-help genre

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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.