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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
Fantastic... again!
I am absolutely in love with the Freakonomics books. If I was a college professor, I would teach this type of thinking as a course using these books as textbooks. Because it teaches thinking... THINKING. Oh my god, who would have thought it could be this fun and interesting to think. Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Bravo! Consider this a formal request for yet another encore.
I am absolutely in love with the Freakonomics books. If I was a college professor, I would teach this type of thinking as a course using these books as textbooks. Because it teaches thinking... THINKING. Oh my god, who would have thought it could be this fun and interesting to think. Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Bravo! Consider this a formal request for yet another encore.
Better than the previous two books since it covers more thought process and less golly gee topics. Still entertaining and may improve your thought processes.
More cohesive than their other books, but if you've listened to the podcast ~75% of it is rehashed from there. And some of the stories play out better in audio form as you can't read ahead to the punchline.
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.
Interesting content, though it felt like a series of podcast episodes strung together under a very loose self-help-ish framework. I'd like to read their other books.
I always enjoy the Freakonomica books, but I like them better as audiobooks than ebooks. This one took me a year to finish, but the last 2 chapters were fascinating.
I... I was listening to this on audio and didn't realize it had ended until the bonus podcasts started playing. It's much of the Levitt and Dubner I've enjoyed in the past but there were a few too many stories I'd heard before recycled not just from their own work but from other sources, for maximum enjoyment.
informative
If you've been keeping up with the podcasts there's not much new here. Read chapters 7 and 8 and skip the rest.