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487 reviews for:
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt
3.7 AVERAGE
487 reviews for:
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt
3.7 AVERAGE
I listened to the audio version as I simply cannot read self help material.
Fun book, I listened without taking this to seriously which enabled me to enjoy this quite a bit.
Here are some things that I learned from Steven:
1. You can't fix big issues without first focusing on small issues.
2. Reviews and ratings are advertisements and nothing more.
3. Use statistics and raw science to formulate your own conclusions do not rely upon popular opinion or political correctness.
Fun book, I listened without taking this to seriously which enabled me to enjoy this quite a bit.
Here are some things that I learned from Steven:
1. You can't fix big issues without first focusing on small issues.
2. Reviews and ratings are advertisements and nothing more.
3. Use statistics and raw science to formulate your own conclusions do not rely upon popular opinion or political correctness.
Freakonomics и SuperFreakonomics са много яки книги за приложната икономика - всекидневни проблеми, погледнати през призмата на икономическата статистика.
Авторите решават да издадат трета книга, която очевидно е писана просто по задължение и разчита на хайпа от първите две, за да се продава, без всъщност да казва нищо особено на стотината си странички.
Авторите решават да издадат трета книга, която очевидно е писана просто по задължение и разчита на хайпа от първите две, за да се продава, без всъщност да казва нищо особено на стотината си странички.
Disappointed. I loved the original Freakanomics, but every book since has felt more like a rehash than any new ideas. I really couldn't recommend this... read the original book and leave it at that.
Good book, enjoyable. Bummed that the materials used as examples were taken straight from the content of the podcasts, so if you listen event week like I do, there's not a lot of new stories. But everything is put together in a cohesive narrative that helped Dubner illustrate bigger ideas - so overall it was good.
I absolutely loved "Freakonomics," and was amazed by the authors' innovative way of looking at problems and whittling them down to essential components that almost nobody else had ever thought to see before. The title of this book made me think that they would teach me how to think like they did, which is why I picked it up.
I'm not sure if it delivered on that. The main takeaway to me was the same one I got from "Freakonomics," which was, find the human incentive, and you'll be able to deduce the behavior that will follow. That is certainly worth the price of the book... they just reinforce it in various examples, from potty training (don't offer candy to a child for doing their business, or they'll suddenly "have to go" all the time and never do anything else), to job and college applications. (In that case, don't lower the bar too low -- if you make them just cumbersome enough to complete, you'll get fewer applicants, but those who aren't serious about the position will self-select themselves out. There's always a balance, of course--raise the bar too high and you'll get no applicants at all... and I was incidentally in process of hiring while listening to this, so it was very prescient advice.)
What I wanted were a set of rules: pay attention to this, don't pay attention to all this other extraneous information that's only confounding the issue. Instead I really got "Freakonomics Part 2," with a bunch of examples, and I still had to do the work myself to distill it down to something usable. But the real gems were there, buried. To fill out the idea of 'find the incentive' I suppose I'd distill the message down to, put yourself in the other person's shoes. What would motivate you is likely the same thing that would motivate them.
I'm not sure if it delivered on that. The main takeaway to me was the same one I got from "Freakonomics," which was, find the human incentive, and you'll be able to deduce the behavior that will follow. That is certainly worth the price of the book... they just reinforce it in various examples, from potty training (don't offer candy to a child for doing their business, or they'll suddenly "have to go" all the time and never do anything else), to job and college applications. (In that case, don't lower the bar too low -- if you make them just cumbersome enough to complete, you'll get fewer applicants, but those who aren't serious about the position will self-select themselves out. There's always a balance, of course--raise the bar too high and you'll get no applicants at all... and I was incidentally in process of hiring while listening to this, so it was very prescient advice.)
What I wanted were a set of rules: pay attention to this, don't pay attention to all this other extraneous information that's only confounding the issue. Instead I really got "Freakonomics Part 2," with a bunch of examples, and I still had to do the work myself to distill it down to something usable. But the real gems were there, buried. To fill out the idea of 'find the incentive' I suppose I'd distill the message down to, put yourself in the other person's shoes. What would motivate you is likely the same thing that would motivate them.
Very charming, readable "how to" guide by the Freakinomics folks.
Insightful and talks about how to break down barriers within our own thinking. Really enjoyed the book!
Yet another interesting offering from Levitt and Dubner. I'll be honest, there is some rehashing of material from previous books. However, this book tries to offer practical ways to apply "Freak" thinking. I am not sure how concrete their advice is, but the principles offered, when applied, can certainly inspire the reader to look at things differently.
Every time I read one of their books, I can't but think that I wish I'd become an economist.
Every time I read one of their books, I can't but think that I wish I'd become an economist.