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Think Like a Freak
by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
The authors of Freakonomics decided they weren’t done providing advice to the general public. In their third book, Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner hoped to answer questions they received from readers in response to their previous books. Many were related to solving world issues, such as famine and epidemics, but some were existential: “What makes people truly happy?” Think Like a Freak was their attempt at answering some of these questions, and providing examples in the form of stories that advocate why it’s worth 'thinking like a freak'. The authors do not have a definition or formula of what it means to think in this way, but they do provide guidelines to help readers think 'like a freak'. Most of their advice is to stop over-thinking problems and not skip over the most obvious answer, as that can sometimes be the best solution. With chapter titles like “Think Like a Child” and “The Three Hardest Words in the English Language” (which are not 'I love you', by the way) the book is definitely thought provoking.