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Mar 2023
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#603 - Abby Davisson - How To Make Life'...

Chris Williamson
About this episode

Abby Davisson is an author, social innovation leader and career development expert whose research focuses on decision making in money management and romance.

There are some big decisions we all need to make. What job to take, what city to live in, whether to get married or divorced or have kids. Having a prescriptive formula for this might seem impossible, but Abby helped run the most popular course at Stanford on exactly this topic, and today we get to find out what she's discovered.

Expect to learn what the most common biggest single mistake that Abby has discovered in her research, how to use logic in romantic decisions without killing the romance, how to speak to your parents about care as they get older, the biggest mistakes that all people make when it comes to major decisions, if you should get a prenup agreement and much more...

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