Grace Lin and Alvina Ling discuss how regret factors into their decision making, and they discuss five styles of decision making, and which style they both fall under. They also talk about the endowment effect and how that factors into their decision making, and their feelings about making mistakes and whether they consider themselves to be careless or careful.
For the Fortune Cookie segment, they discuss various pieces of publishing news, including a follow up on the closing of Baker & Taylor, a new Dr. Seuss book discovered, and the announcement of a Children's Booker Prize. They end as always with what they're grateful for.
How have you been?
Grace is training for the Hot Chocolate 5k with her daughter Hazel, her husband Alex, and some of her friends! ..like Kate Milford! Grace is also getting ready to leave for Virginia and Texas! She’s been working on designing her dish towels! Everyone will love them! Alvina is getting ready to run the NYC Marathon! Every ten years! She run is on Fred’s Team.
Decision Making and Regret
Inspired in part by an episode of The Heavyweight podcast. The book friends talk about times that they used regret to make decisions. Are we careless or too careful? What type of decision maker are you?
Fortune Cookie Segment: Publishing News
THANK YOU!
Thank you to Hachette Audio, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, and Alex at Pacyworks Studio for producing and editing this podcast. Be sure to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts and tell a friend about us. Tag us on social media using the hashtag #bookfriendsforever OR send us a message via Instagram at @bookfriendsforever_podcast or via our website at Bookfriendsforever.com.
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