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joining me now, annie duke, the former professional poker player, decision strantegist an consultantsill remember her battling it out with joan rivers in a season of celebrity apprentice with now president trump. she is the author of a brand new book titled "thinking in bets." annie, why are people changing views but not their party? >> well, the question is what determines your identity. and is it more important that your identity is aligned with the political party which really becomes part of your tribe or are you going to protect your identity and your ideology and principles. there is lots of scientific evidence that shows that your identity is mainly that the one that you will protect is the party identity or your tribal identity and that is why you are willing to shift the policy so much. >> maybe it's always been this way, maybe we've lied all those years that we said my principles determine my party. maybe it's always been just like it is today, its just more exposed. >> well, i think that that is true. i mean, when you have a conflict between your basically adhering to your

. >>> she was a world series of poker champion, now annie duke is betting that her skills from the poker table will help you when it comes to making money decisions. her new book is called "thinking in bets making smarter decisions when you don't have all the facts. i love the idea behind your book why do you say thinking as decisions as bets is a more effective way to come to a decision >> mainly because the decisions we make are bets we tend to think of bets as happening in a casino, but what a bet really is is a decision about an uncertain future that is informed by your beliefs. >> as you say a lot of uncertainty in poker and in life but you say poker players really know how to use that uncertainty to your advantage. how does that translate to someone who maybe doesn't even know how to play poker >> if we think about it, whenever we make a decision there is a set of futures that might occur, but we don't know exactly what the future is that will happen. so, we can use that to our advantage because when the future doesn't work out a certain way that we wanted, we become less emotional

duke all that charisma. so i was a speechwriter for the governor and speechwriter for annis when he was attorney general of the united states and i also tell folks that behind every great man there's a little japanese guy at a keyboard. i'm glad to hear from joel that the bar will be open because i always sound better and i hope all of you partake. i want to thank erica for reaching out to invite me back and i want to thank you joel for having me back. i like to thank all the volunteers out there who have helped staff this event. it takes a lot of effort of a lot of people to put these together and i have great admiration for organizations like yours provide this outlet where people can feel marginalized and isolated especially in an area like san francisco/bay area. i'm going to be talking about education and i was heartened on the way into the hall today when i iran into erica and i were walking in and iran into a young man here and his father were coming here for the first time and this young man is just starting high school and junior in high school, right? okay. anyway, so this is his first time here and