Small questions are usually less explored and hence, are virgin territories of exploration.
I feel that a lot of self-help or businesses type books now all follow the same formula and in the end talk about the same few ideas again and again.
If I changed the title to “Think Outside the Box” you’d probably have a good idea of what to expect from this book - and you’d be right! This was suggested for book club and I have not read any of their previous books. I will definitely recommend this book to non fiction, economics loversGreat book, Think Like a Freak pdf is enough to raise the goose bumps alone.Copyright © 2017 Blind Hypnosis | All Rights Reserved All rights reserved.As an Amazon Associate, Freakonomics may earn commissions from qualifying purchases made through links on this site.
It is also a lot of fun. All contents © 2020 Freakonomics, LLC. Authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner explore how the iconoclastic approach to data revealed in Freakonomics can improve the way we think.
Temporarily putting away your moral compass before analyzing problems was a good one, too. Unlike hard sciences, the objects (humans) can behave differently in lab settings. Think like a Freak is a book that teaches people to think like kids. I've enjoyed the Freakonomics podcast, and some of the material in this book is similar, but it's still great to see it spelled in black and white.Thinking like a freak has paid off for Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner in their first two wildly popular nonfiction Freakonomics books. As always, no topic is off-limits. Otherwise though it feels like a waste of timI feel that a lot of self-help or businesses type books now all follow the same formula and in the end talk about the same few ideas again and again. The authors of the bestselling Freakonomics and SuperFreakonomics, are out with a new book, Think Like a Freak, which opens with a timely story. In Germany, Protestants make higher money than Catholics since they work more hours, more likely to be self-employed and their women are more likely to be working full-time. While it isn't profound or weighty, it is just as useful for all that.
A few stories got me laughing.
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And as for Freakonomics, I could’ve written way more lessons. The New York Times-bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. They range from business to philanthropy to sports to politics, all with the goal of retraining your brain. So for a fan like me, this book was slightly disappointing because I’d heard most of the material before on the podcasts.
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I've enjoyed the Freakonomics podcast, and some of the material in this book is similar, but it's still great to see it spelled in black and white. Different forms of incentives are financial, moral, social and herd mentality. In this third volume, Levitt and Dubner are aiming to teach you the way of thinking outside the box as they do.An entertaining read - or listen to be exact.
Some people love books. Think Like A Freak is a great book, an absolute must-read!. Better phrasing leads Kobi, a Japanese guy to figure out that eating dog (by splitting it into two) and bun separately and wetting bun in the water while eating the dog was a successful strategy using which he broke the previous record of 25.125 and made a new record of 50. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and teach us all to think a bit more productively, more creatively, more rationally--to think, that is, like a Freak. Like its predecessors, it is filled with amusing stories which usually highlight some economic or behavioral principle (such as sunk cost, cobra effect, etc...). The first edition of the novel was published in May 12th 2014, and was written by Steven D. Levitt. I try to reserve 5-star ratings for books that either make me see the world differently, provide a deep emotionally experience, or make me laugh really hard. The book was published on May 12, 2014 by William Morrow. I LOVED this book. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. The conventional wisdom was the no one bacteria can survive in the stomach. Welcome back.