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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt
3.7 AVERAGE
490 reviews for:
Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
Steven D. Levitt
3.7 AVERAGE
I love all of the books in this series. They are interesting and provocative. Can't recommend them enough!
Probably would be a 4-star if I wasn't a podcast listener. Most of the content was in there over the past couple years.
Not a bad read and true to Freakonomics form but certainly more conventional in style and less sensational in content. I enjoyed this and it is interesting to consider but it doesn't kindle excitement and imagination in the same way their first book did for me.
This is a book about training your brain to re-frame things to gain new perspectives and insights. It's entertaining and even in some places might be profound, but I would not recommend it to anyone looking for step-by-step instructions or an in-depth philosophical treatise. It is recommended if you want insight into how the Freakonomics authors approach their work and are interested in thinking about non-linear problem solving.
I have not read the other Freakonomics books nor heard their show. This book does wake one up to rethink approaches to problems/issues.
Not as good as the other two, but still worth reading. I'm a sucker for those books and the whole behaviour economics field.
Freakonomics and the follow up book, SuperFreakonomics were two of those books that changed the way people looked at the world and the things that happened in it. In this third volume, Levitt and Dubner are aiming to teach you the way of thinking outside the box as they do.
With chapters as diverse as The Three Hardest Words in the English Language, How to Think Like a Child and Like Giving Candy to a Baby, they bring more stories and anecdotes that demonstrate just how lateral thinking can bring a fresh perspective on a problem, and that sometimes the uncomplicated answer is the correct one.
Whilst this is a great read, Dubner writes some very readable text, it feels like a thin veneer rather than having the depth that the earlier books had. Interesting though, and may be the place to start if you have never read anything by these authors before.
With chapters as diverse as The Three Hardest Words in the English Language, How to Think Like a Child and Like Giving Candy to a Baby, they bring more stories and anecdotes that demonstrate just how lateral thinking can bring a fresh perspective on a problem, and that sometimes the uncomplicated answer is the correct one.
Whilst this is a great read, Dubner writes some very readable text, it feels like a thin veneer rather than having the depth that the earlier books had. Interesting though, and may be the place to start if you have never read anything by these authors before.
If you listen to the podcast, there is absolutely nothing new in this book. Same stuff, some of it pasted directly from their older stuff.
I liked the quirky stories and the few advices that are sprinkled among them. I would have expected a little more emphasis on the how instead of the what but I guess we can all read into it as we want to.