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Don't Trust Your Gut
Book • 2022
In 'Don’t Trust Your Gut,' Seth Stephens-Davidowitz uses extensive datasets to uncover surprising and effective strategies for life’s biggest self-help puzzles.
The book reveals how data from sources like dating profiles, tax records, and career trajectories contradict our instincts and offer practical, data-driven advice on topics such as finding a mate, raising children, and achieving career success.
It emphasizes the importance of relying on hard facts and figures rather than gut instincts for making smarter decisions.
The book reveals how data from sources like dating profiles, tax records, and career trajectories contradict our instincts and offer practical, data-driven advice on topics such as finding a mate, raising children, and achieving career success.
It emphasizes the importance of relying on hard facts and figures rather than gut instincts for making smarter decisions.
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as a valuable book by Seth Stevens-Davidowitz with impactful insights.


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when discussing a book he read about relationship success.


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in discussion of his books "What Everybody Lies" and "Don't Trust Your Gut"


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