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488 reviews for:
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt
3.7 AVERAGE
488 reviews for:
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt
3.7 AVERAGE
I kept thinking I had already listened to this book already, but it turns out that it has a lot of repeated material from previous books.
Considering I recently listened to Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, I ended up skipping a lot of this audiobook.
Considering I recently listened to Freakonomics and Superfreakonomics, I ended up skipping a lot of this audiobook.
challenging
informative
medium-paced
The content is good and thought provoking. Perhaps because I have listened to so many freakonomics podcasts already, I wish the content in the book went a bit deeper than it does. Still worth the time to read though.
Some great parts initially Lost me at the end. Their arguments for the self weeding garden, while helpful when using modern day examples, horrifying when using medieval justice as an example. I also have some concerns that some of their statement. While there are some interesting ideas, it is not my favorite book on innovative thinking.
This book is good in my opinion. Shows us solving problems from another perspective. And yes, the perspective given is absolutely ridiculous.
This installment seemed less focused and coherent. The themes were spelled out but the anecdotes -- er, case studies -- were often stretched to fit the chapter headings. For instance, there is a big difference between quitting the career you've invested in and giving up on a scientific experiment. But the book is still worthwhile for the examples and analysis, which I suspect you can get more readily from the correlated podcast.
Waffling between two and three stars because of the little rubric I made for myself (on my profile if you’re curious). But I landed on “didn’t hate it” because it was somewhat entertaining. Just not at all useful. Yet another book that, other than anecdotes, could have been summed up in a listicle.
Not a lot of new material for those of us already familiar with freakonomics. It was an easy, quick read but nothing groundbreaking here.
Ufff what to do with this book.
It starts alright, they are trying to make the point of thinking differently and more data based instead of falling for multiple biases that we hold. They give multiple examples of people who have succeeded by thinking outside the box, and I agree that storytelling is probably the best way of convincing people, it's entertaining and you learn something.
However, the second part of the book becomes tedious. A bit cliché with "think like a child" and "don't be afraid of quitting!", they are contextless notions and anecdotal stories. It's a nice shallow introduction to fun concepts like the sunk-cost fallacy (that still today I fail to interiorize, for which the book was not of much help) but probably you've already heard about most of the stories in the book. This might as well be that the book has been around for quite some time and it's already in our collective imagery.
Well, nice quick read but bitter self-improvement flavour.
It starts alright, they are trying to make the point of thinking differently and more data based instead of falling for multiple biases that we hold. They give multiple examples of people who have succeeded by thinking outside the box, and I agree that storytelling is probably the best way of convincing people, it's entertaining and you learn something.
However, the second part of the book becomes tedious. A bit cliché with "think like a child" and "don't be afraid of quitting!", they are contextless notions and anecdotal stories. It's a nice shallow introduction to fun concepts like the sunk-cost fallacy (that still today I fail to interiorize, for which the book was not of much help) but probably you've already heard about most of the stories in the book. This might as well be that the book has been around for quite some time and it's already in our collective imagery.
Well, nice quick read but bitter self-improvement flavour.
I am a huge fan of Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner's previous books, so I was excited to listen to this one on audio. Think Like a Freak felt slightly less substantial than the two previous Freakonomics books, but I found it entertaining nonetheless.